Asking for help - Please! How to play CD's in car with no CD player!

hi!

for music on the go, I’m not gonna be to fussy as to want lossless content playback.

with that in mind….

leave the CDs in the house. they don’t do well in the heat.

quick answer:
iphone or Android…. get an Apple music subscription and install the app on your phones.

use Alexis or google assistant. if they now allow personal content to be uploaded/shared.

otherwise…
essentially all you need is to have your desired content available outside the home.

its already been ripped and hopefully is still being stored locally, as you have made CDs from those files.

one minor concern going forward might be the file type. and if its lossy or lossless, or small or large files sizes?

most any cloud service can enable access to your content once they have been uploaded to it. .

some media apps incorporate cloud file storage and management

Perhaps someone here knows of a few that are easy or inexpensive and will chime in.


alternatively,
another way could be to buy a portable music player that supports Blue Tooth or allows for attachment to a mobile device. there are a few around that have on board storage and DA conversion which support many file types. then all you need to do is to load the portable device with the content and remember to take it with you and have its batteries charged up.

if the amount of the content is not immense, one could simply load them onto the mobile phone and be done.

I would prefer this method as it will not depend on wireless connectivity, and it seems, a more secure way to keep my private stuff, private.

enjoy.

the simplest most glarring solution is....

6 hours of music if compressed on average ought to end up being less than 100 songs. at roughly 5MB per, that's only half a gig of music more or less.

I had a 16GB phone and know the issue very well. you should be able to carry 2GB or maybe more on your phones, since they are not cluttered up with games or other non essentials.

that comes to several hundred files.
 
you said you bought them all from Amazon.

meaning you have an account. meaning you also have a history with Amazon. even if you don't have the compiled CDs Amazon ought to be able to allow you to redownload them.

if so, just load them onto your phones instead of the laptop.

alternatively....
I would find out what my car can if at all, do with that USB jack, or some other hidden jack there may well be in there somewhere.

does the car have a radio in it at all? there might be a way to tap into that via RCA/Headphone jack, or simply via BT from a small portable media player.

a friend's new Chevy came with Cirrus or XM radio.... punching its buttons he found that its screen doubled as his car's information and maintenence center.

I think its time to read the owner manual and see what options the car does or does not offer. and go from there.

that 'mini' jack on the radio obviously is for inputting info.

running a stereo headphone cable from the phone to the radio and selecting aUX should do the trick. use the phopne to select and play files.

you should be golden now either way... adding the content to your phones, or onto the USB drive. those are unquestionably the cheapest ways to go.

one caveat is to poke the USB drive into the laptop to see its formating. often the cheaper ones still use FAT, but I've bought some lately that were all NTFS, or windows only pretty much. Apple can read from NTFS but not write to it. both OS can read/write to FAT.

regardless the formating, it can be easily changed by any personal confuser with the confuser's disk utility.. often the formating is liisted on the packaging.

as to bit rates I read that as saying 'from' yada yada to 320 which is max for compressed files.

odd that it does not support AAC, or ALAC, or AIF all Apple types.

no worries. stick with MP3 or Windows WMA. you should be golden.

as for those "... not guaranteed to work with...." these are just disclaimers nearly everyone uses to avoid responsibility yet imply they should all do just fine.

of the things likely not fully supported might be ID tags.

the names of the tracks may not populate fully or correctly.

in fact, things like 'folder' or too many folders may not be supported.

its easy enough to find out. dump some on the USB drive and plug it in!

you'll also find out how to navigate them. hopefully from the steering wheel.

several portable media players are listed and I suspect that IF they are running recent or latest IOS or Droid OS again, you should be golden.

as for what happened?

the sun kept coming up and going down.

somewhere on a few of those instances, people came up with what they thought were good ideas, which as it turned out, were good ideas.

the problem is very little of it ever crossed our radar close enough to get our  attention.

catching up is not that hard.

Keeping up is.

THX! 

Good luck.