Limited radio and no cell reception in places here, wish vehicles still came with CD players.

 

I acquired 256G of mp3, mp4 on USB.

Works well with this radio in the XL. I was so excited to plug in a USB drive and jam.

I find songs on jango and do things with firefox extensions. You can fill up a simple usb and plug it in and rock.

 

Timely thread, I'm sitting here right now ripping CD's to memory stick for my Sync3. Really aggravating that they nanny-stiffarm you to keep you from browsing folders while moving (sure miss that convenience of simply popping out a CD and loading a new one, so that I can at least hear a new artist).

So, I've worked around the nanny by putting all mp3's in the root folder of the memory stick. Ripping them to "Artist, album, track nbr, and title" groups all the artists and albums, but means I have to do a lot of button pushing to skip over albums. But, at least I can listen to more that one folder at a time. Sure wish there was a way to unlock all the Sync3 options in ForScan to get rid of all the nanny BS settings. But, this scheme will work in the mean time.

 

There are folks that have already ripped everything you nailing down.

https://www.jango.com/music/Bon+Scott

You'll never find that on a CD.

 

I’m going to have to look into that for the SD and the TT.

 

Yes, but it is us boomers clinging to our CD's, as using my phone for blue tooth or other connection, has proved to be a total PIA.
Some of my old CD's don't show song titles or even album title when ripping. So I bring up my phone, don't even know what music I'm looking at.

Contrast that with putting in one CD, 100% I know what music is in there.

 

I actually like the silver face, it matches the trim (in XLT anyway, not sure of trim in other versions).

 

your not alone! back of a 64 Biscayne SW 340 hp 409 3 speed od trans ,ny to ca trips with dad huffing away on his lucky's

 

Boomer here, fan of digital, over 2,500 albums ripped so far. I use a free program called EAC (Exact Audio Copy) that pulls in CD info (artist, album, song, artwork, etc.) from the internet, no need to type it in. If you rip to FLAC (or ALAC) you get uncompressed CD quality, unlike Mp3 files which are heavily compressed. I keep everything organized with iTunes because it's free, easy to use, and let's me make playlists I can easily sync to my phone. You can also rip with iTunes, but EAC has some advanced features I like to use.

By the way, CD quality is not the best available, because it's still based on disc storage technology available in 1982. Back then record companies realized they could fit a typical double album onto one disc by limiting the sound quality to 16bit, 44.1kHz. Amazingly that's the CD format still used today, which is totally weird because that's like saying we have Blu-ray and 4K quality disc storage technology available, but we're only going to sell you people VHS tapes. Anyway, the best quality music format for consumers right now is digital, from sites like this: https://www.hdtracks.com where you can download digital albums up to 24bit, 192kHz quality.

Sorry to wander so much, your mod is actually pretty cool and I do wish they still put CD players in vehicles!

 

Did a search for EAC, looks to be a great piece of software, thanks!

 

Good question, I dont know.

 

Dang, we only had a 1966 Plymouth Belvedere III wagon with a 318 poly. Not fire breathing like a 409, but I guess it got the job done.

 

1962 Dodge Dart slant 6. push button trans.
Old Gold Cigarettes and Schlitz.

 

Definitely not.

 

and that's ok. I dont even have a cd player let alone a DVD player in the house anymore. I also had ripped my entire cd collection to mp3's year ago and had a 10000 song library. Now days I just stream from Spotify from my phones, computer, TV, in my cars, house and on the beach with bluetooth speaker.

All my play lists I had in iTunes with my ripped library got converted to Spotify play lists. It's just so much less effing around. If I know I am going to be in a no cell zone, I just tell Spotify to download all my Playlist to my phone, easy peasy.

Btw, I am a boomer too, although at the tail-end(1963), but do embrace technology.

Now that said, i sure wanted a nice AKAI reel to reel upright tape recorder in the worst way back in the day. I built my home sound system back then from heathkit, and that was quite a personal accomplishment.