CD Player audio input source?

[Oyster Bait]

Sounds crazy, I know. I'm gonna get my M3 on Sunday so I'll be able to answer this myself. Those USB input jacks - can you hook up a portable CD (well, they're all DVDs, these days, but they'll deal with any optical disc format so who's counting?) and play your Eagle's Greatest Hits, or Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle be Unbroken Volume 1, or, ..wait, don't let me get away with myself. Anyway, you get my drift. USB is supposed to mean universal serial bus, so, it should mean, well, you get my drift. Will it? Huh? Will it?

 

[Oyster Bait]

I mean, think of the ramifications... Books on tape...

 

[Oyster Bait]

The collected works of Lawrence Welk...

 

[run-the-joules]

I won’t be satisfied until I can put a record player in the frunk

 

[run-the-joules]

But in all seriousness, no, it won’t work.

 

[MikeATL]

You can connect one of those FM transmitters to the Aux out on the CD player. Awful solution, but really the main option for external audio devices.

You can do the same thing with a Bluetooth transmitter, but you’re phone is disconnected when that’s connected.

Best solution is just to get that content on your phone.

 

[Jedi2155]

Alternately, rip the CDs into FLAC (lossless) or MP3, and play it off a thumb drive. No point to use a CD that will skip when a USB + audio rip will do just as well.

 

[MikeATL]

Alternately, rip the CDs into FLAC (lossless) or MP3, and play it off a thumb drive

However, current Tesla options when playing off the USB are very weak....most control when moved to your smartphone

 

[Jedi2155]

However, current Tesla options when playing off the USB are very weak....most control when moved to your smartphone

Still better control than a physical CD player IMO....

 

[Candleflame]

sounding like my parents here. just get audiograbber and spent an afternoon ripping your 1000 cd collection onto your computer...

TBH these days i dont even bother. just download your albums from the internet from shady sites. quicker than ripping.

 

[Jedi2155]

TBH these days i dont even bother. just download your albums from the internet from shady sites. quicker than ripping.

I realized this a long time ago too lol....why bother with all the effort when an expert has figured out the perfect settings to share on the net....

 

[Candleflame]

I realized this a long time ago too lol....why bother with all the effort when an expert has figured out the perfect settings to share on the net....

for me the main timesaver is that you dont have to label the tracks yourself.

 

[GPinzone]

for me the main timesaver is that you dont have to label the tracks yourself.

It's not a one-step process, but I use the following method:

1. Rip with Exact Audio Copy.
2. Convert to MP3 or FLAC with Foobar 2000 and the appropriate plug-ins (e.g., LAME)
3. Tag and Rename to fix all the tags. It scrapes the album info from Amazon and other sites.

 

[Candleflame]

yeah mate, but downloading was still quicker back then haha. I actually still exclusively use foobar 2000 thanks to the spectrum analyser which is very useful for music production and test mixes actually.

 

[acraigl]

When it comes to music, this guy has an 8-track mind.

 

[Oyster Bait]

Sounds like the answer is, nobody actually knows.

 

[sduck]

Sounds like the answer is, nobody actually knows.

Actually, yes, I know. As per your initial post, no, you can't stream audio into the usb port. There isn't an audio driver installed like there is on most computers. So no plugging in streaming audio devices like CD players, ipods, etc of any kind. You CAN attach a flash drive (or similar - supposedly some ipods work, and maybe ssd's) with whatever digital content on it you want, and the car will index it and play it with it's currently dreadful interface.