Technical CD player in a 2019 500.

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Technical CD player in a 2019 500.

HockleyHaggis

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Hi everyone - I'm new to the forum and forums in general actually - so I apologise if the etiquete says I should have searched better before posting my question - however......
I have a 2019 Fiat 500 with the Apple Car Play/ Android Auto compatible entertainment system installed - but no CD player. I dont think it has an Aux port for plugging in a lead and it only has a USB port.
I want to play CDs in my car. I tried the Adaptiv Plug and Play CD player, which worked briefly, then stopped. So two questions really:
Can I reset my entertainment system so that I can try the plug and play CD player again? and
Does anyone have a fool proof, confirmed as working, way of playing CDs in my car?
I know I can Spotify and stream etc - but I'm old school and like CDs on a road trip. Thanks in advance.
Jon.
 
A silly answer to start with:https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/audio...20-personal-cd-player-black-10203632-pdt.html

Now more sensible.
My Fabia has no CD player, as this is the way things are going. I hate the idea of mp3 as quality is lost. It has an SD card reader in the glovebox.
The Fabia though, does recognise uncompressed music files, so I copied all my CDs (less than 20, sad isn't it) onto an SD card, which sits permanently in the reader, set to random.

Actually better than the 5-disc changer in the Panda.
 
Thanks for the suggestion - I suppose its a habit that we have on road trips of selecting a bunch of CDs that we are going to listen to from end to end as intended - I have Spotify on my phone which works perfectly well with the system so I could do that - but we really want the CD player to play via the system. I can't beleive they don't even have an Aux in!!!
 
My habit has always been to copy a 'playlist' of maybe 30 or so CDs onto a memory stick and bung it in the USB drive. From time to time I rings the changes on the USB. I think a lot more than 30, and it becomes a bit of a faff to scroll through them. However, this is with a USB slot which is integral in a aftermarket head unit.

I am hoping that I will be able to do the same thing with the USB slot on the central console on the 500, but have not had chance to check that out yet.
 
My habit has always been to copy a 'playlist' of maybe 30 or so CDs onto a memory stick and bung it in the USB drive. From time to time I rings the changes on the USB. I think a lot more than 30, and it becomes a bit of a faff to scroll through them. However, this is with a USB slot which is integral in a aftermarket head unit.

I am hoping that I will be able to do the same thing with the USB slot on the central console on the 500, but have not had chance to check that out yet.

You can browse song by album so that may be the best way
 
I think we are rather at cross purposes. i don't even know what 'u connect system' is.

I was asking exactly what you meant by 'You can browse song by album so that may be the best way'.

Browse how? Using what?
 
I think we are rather at cross purposes. i don't even know what 'u connect system' is.

I was asking exactly what you meant by 'You can browse song by album so that may be the best way'.

Browse how? Using what?

By using the touch screen when you have our music on a usb stick

You can browse and play a individual album like you would with a cd


Also uconnect is the name of the touch screen radio/media system is virtually all fiat vechiles now
 
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No worries, chris

I am rapidly learning (if I didn't already know) that the world of 'new' cars (as opposed to 15-20 year old ones) is a totally different universe. So CD players have already gone the way of 8-tracks and cassette decks and become obsolete! I did not know they were stopping fitting them on modern cars. :)

Actually I've never been a fan of CDs in the car. In my experience, the jump on Britain's bumpy roads. Which I why I have preferred a simple memory stick to play music with.
 
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HockleyHaggis

You have the best of both worlds, copy all your CD,s on to your phone, if you have any sort of modern iPhone you will get a few thousand songs and then some. Maybe pick out the albums you want and just put those on the phone, then plug your phone into the car. No need then to use data streaming what you already have. No loss of music when you loose signal and you can then use CarPlay to pick what album you want I,e “hey Siri play the wombles” it will then just play songs by that artist (if you can call the wombles an artist) or you can say songs from the 80s or rock music and the car/phone will do the rest.

The disadvantages of plugging in a CD player are huge, space, quality, skipping on bumps etc especially with a cheap plug in player.
 
Car CD players, and portable ones, should not be susceptible to skipping. They read the data several seconds ahead, so if a bump causes them to skip, they have time to refind there position. Home units, and computers, will skip when people start dancing around heavily, as they do not usually have the buffer.
 
Car CD players, and portable ones, should not be susceptible to skipping. They read the data several seconds ahead, so if a bump causes them to skip, they have time to refind there position.

"should" being the operative word there.

Often if you hit a bump there is another and another. if you're sitting still and you happen to bump a portable CD player, then yes the couple of second buffer will easily keep the tunes playing, if you however drive down a pothole peppered British road then the CD player really won't cope.

These days finding a portable CD player is pretty hard to come by from any reputable manufacturer, and with the likes of "Groov-e" and "Gueray" being the main brands on amazon, you'd be mad for thinking they are high quality units with good quality components.
 
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