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Driving In My Car

Father Gino

Father Gino

Nov 3, 2018
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Farthard, Connecticut
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I need to join the brave new world of audio. My cassette player is long gone, ditto the CD. You Tube has virtually all the music I want to listen to but has two drawbacks that i’m Aware of so far: can’t select the next song via the car’s controls and high data usage.

So many choices for streaming audio, what’s the bet deal for me? I’d like do be able to make my own collections of tunes and be able to select them via the car’s controls through Android car connect. Not a deal breaker if I can’t but it would be nice. Data usage might not be a big issue cause I could probably purchase unlimited data usage.

What’s the difference between YouTube and YouTube Music?

Is everything on you tube accessible on some other app, like Amazon prime?

Help an old Luddite out.
 
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With Amazon prime you can download songs directly to your phone. This if course is only songs not exclusively on they're unlimited platform. Loading them on your phone on wifi doesn't eat your data up from streaming.

It works for the most part for me.
 
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I only use YouTube when I want to actually watch something, not just listen.
For listening, I use Google Play. 10euro a month, and access to almost all the music I'd ever want.
Easy to create your own playlists, and it's pretty good on suggesting new music too, based on what you've listened to already.
I've usually got a few albums downloaded on my phone using my home WiFi...but my current data package is so good I don't need to.
Phone connects to my car via Bluetooth and it's easy to skip on to next tune or whatever.
 
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Yeah, I'm with ya!

The wife and I just bought a new car after 15 years. No Cd player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm an aging baby boomer and I got a ton of Cds and I can't even play them in the new ride. Cds are going the way of the dinosaur.

As far as I know, if you have a desktop and it has a Cd port, you can transfer your Cd music to flash drive (thumb drive) and plug that into your car's USB port. I've not done that yet but I've been told that is an option.

Ain't it great?
 
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Yes, NRBQ is one of the few bands pretty much unavailable on YouTube. I bought most of there stuff on iTunes, but after many years, i’ve come to detest Apple. It’s ironic to me to think of their 1984 Stupidbowl commercial that showed Microsoft as the evil tool of the overlords. Now Apple seems to be the unnecessarily expensive, restrictive evil empire.
 
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Youtube music streams music only, and uses far less data than youtube video. If you are listening, not watching, you don't need the video. I can't stream because of the crazy high data cost, and unlimited in Canada is too expensive. I use Spotify Premium and download playlists. I can listen until I'm bored, delete, and start a new one. Pretty cheap to download at home.
 
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I have loaded stuff on to a thumb drive and that’s great. However, I loaded most of my cds into iTunes as mp4s hence they’re unusable except in iTunes. Also, virtually all of my library is now available for free on YouTube and there’s stuff on YouTube that I couldn’t buy even if I wanted to. Maybe that stuff is on Google play too and maybe not.

I’ve got to see if connecting my phone via Bluetooth controls YouTube
 
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bassdude51 said:
The wife and I just bought a new car after 15 years. No Cd player!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm an aging baby boomer and I got a ton of Cds and I can't even play them in the new ride. Cds are going the way of the dinosaur.



Ain't it great?
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Really weird- My brand new BMW does have a CD player. I guess they figured it cost $2 to include one. I thought it strange at first, and now I'm kinda liking it.
 
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I guess I wont be buying any new cars, gotta have my CD player. We are fortunate to have pretty good radio here but if you travel its a crap shoot what you might find. I find some of the best parts of road trips is to reaquaint my self with my CD collection
 
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bluesblaster said:
I guess I wont be buying any new cars, gotta have my CD player. We are fortunate to have pretty good radio here but if you travel its a crap shoot what you might find. I find some of the best parts of road trips is to reaquaint my self with my CD collection
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See my post above. BMW still comes with a CD player. Plus, they're fast as stink!!
 
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My nephew has a 5 series, nice car but really not my thing. I was just looking on CL's at a Jag XF 3.0 SC , low miles , decent price...and it has a CD player. Tempting, but both my Buicks have CD players and are fine automobiles
 
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HOOLIGAN said:
I have older cars with no USB port-Bought a Bluetooth receiver (around $25) that plugs into car’s cigarette lighter port, tune car’s radio to unused FM air channel, whatever I can play on my phone (Usually Spotify or YouTube) then goes through my car speakers.
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How's the fidelity? My older beemer doesn't have an aux in or bluetooth.
 
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Paulabass said:
How's the fidelity? My older beemer doesn't have an aux in or bluetooth.
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I used one of those in my old Honda. If you can find an FM frequency with no station or interference, the fidelity is decent. I mostly used it for podcast listening, but if you care a lot how your music sounds, you probably won't like it. I kept meaning to get an AUX cable installed that ran to the back of the stereo, but ended up getting rid of the car before that happened. I now drive a new Hyundai with Bluetooth, Apple CarPlay, etc.
 
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I ripped all of the family's CD's. Converted to MP3 format, you can fit gobs of them onto an obsolete cell phone. In one car, we plug it into the aux port of the stereo. The other car, an older model, we have a bluetooth radio transmitter. This is for long trips. For in-town, I just tune the radio to NPR and leave it there.
 
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