new 2015 car=no CD player?!

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I have a new Jeep with satellite radio and no cd player. It does have 3 different inputs below the radio. The radio is also the display screen which looks like it is running windows 8 on it. If this ever develops problems you have to have the dealer install a new one of their brand. It incorporates all the vehicle functions into the radio display unit. I have taken a small 1 gb flash drive and have downloaded 10 - 12 cd's on it. Have plenty of music available. You can do shuffle mode through all the music or you can create folders for different types of music or different cds. Reproduction is good for playback and much smaller to store or carry around. Did not want my phone hooked into vehicle. My feeling is I am driving not in a phone booth.

Jon
 
When I bought my 2014 Focus, I made sure it had a CD player. I probably wouldn't have bought it if it didn't. I have about 50 CDs I carry in my car. If it were up to me, I'd also have a cassette player and an 8-track player in my car.
 
Peugeot in Europe were the first to sell a car without the option of a CD player with the new 208 hatchback. The excuse that music quality is sacrificed on portable media players is nonsense, it all depends on the kbps. Lossless files are as high and in some cases better quality audio than cd's which are either 256 or 320 kbps. In any which case, the differences are barley noticeable.
 
For short trips in the car it's NPR. Anything longer its Pandora on my phone fed through my Bluetooth speaker/FM transmitter. Sound quality is fine, plus calls and navigation come through just fine too. Got to say I Hate commercial radio and avoid it as much as possible, there is nothing there that remotely interests me. Dianasaur rock, country twang and awful talk radio have zero interest here.
 
There is a real urge to do away with CD players (just as there was with cassette...fascinating fact is the last vehicle w/a factory cassette player was the 2010 Lexus coupe (whatever the numbering)...not sure that GM is quite there yet; but they have gotten quite good at hiding the CD player on some of the vehicles. Now that they have 4g in the newer GM vehicles even less of a reason to keep a CD player.
 
I have a 2014 Chrysler Town & Country and it has a CD player, although I rarely use it. Seems like CDs are yesterday's news. Younger people have no use for them - everything is digital files. In the car, if I'm not listening to regular broadcast radio or XM/Sirius, then I have my iPod plugged in or I'm listing to one of the thousand songs I loaded on to the car stereo. It seems the emerging audio trend now is vinyl RECORD albums!!

There are all kinds of record stores opening up all over the Detroit area - and not just used stuff, but new releases and new re-releases. Seems younger people have discovered the depth and warmth of sound that can be heard from vinyl and a good audio system.

Funny how sometimes things go full circle!
 
I'm not totally surprised--the world is losing interest in CD.

For me, it's not very relevant. I currently almost never use car audio. My current car has probably the best audio system I've ever had in a car, but even so, it's really not good enough for my quality expectations.

I also don't drive enough to justify, to me, playing voice material (e.g. audio books).
 
I guess it's just like having a new car with an 8 track player in 1983 or a compact cassette player in 2003!

 

When I think that I stopped to subscribe to Columbia House in 1990 as it became hard to get LPs just 7 years after the CDs were introduced! I hated cassettes and I still didn't have a CD player...

 

The funny thing is that kids are buying vinyl records again!

 
 
New cars continue to be stripped down of what was once standard equipment.

Has anyone noticed those clothes hanger "handles" on each side of the rear seats are going as well in some cars? None of the smaller Mazda cars have them and have found it so with others as well.

In the grand scheme of things eliminating something that adds only pennies of cost to a vehicle can equal thousands in savings over a model's run.
 
I'm wondering if the clothes hangers are being removed for a safety reasons more than because of de-contenting. Most cars now have side curtain airbags that would probably also interfere with them...

 

Along with other things that most people don't miss, like multiple cigarette lighters. Most now want, Bluetooth, USB connections, 12 and 120 volts sockets... 

 

My great-uncle who was a catholic priest was always travelling with clothes suspended to the clothes hangers. I think he even had a pole going from one to the other! I never used those in any of my cars!

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Guess I am the only holdout here on CD's--Use em a LOT in the car.My 2015 Toyota Highlander has a single play CD player not a CD changer.My 2012 Toyota Highlander had a CD changer.Like this better in the car.Youy have to wait for a LONG stoplight to change discs.My 2015 car has the HD radio.It works well on FM-but sadly not much to listen to on FM or AM.The radio in my car has aux analog input,digital aux input Bluetooth for phones and digital players that have it.Don't have such a thing except my IPhone-Don't have anything recorded on it since the I store doesn't have any music I want.So I use CDs,Sirius radio-yes I know it doesn't sound so good-but for the car it works.The sound system in my new car is a JBL Greenedge system that can rival some home systems for sound quality.It has an 11 channel digital amp that is rated to 825W.Playing my Auditorium Organ" and other CDs of the Atlantic City Convention organs never sounded so good.The system even reproduced the test cut of the 64' Diaphone stop-not live volume but reproduced it somewhat-better than other typical car systems.The system has a 12" subwoofer in the back.Will take this factory system over any aftermarket one any day.The system in the car was DESIGNED for it unlike aftermarket which have to fit ANY car.This old guy still uses his CDs,DVDs,and BluRays.Don't know how that other stuff works-too much trouble and hassle.
 
I listen to CDs all the time on my drive to and from work. My car is a 2012 Toyota Venza with 4 disc CD changer. It also has XM radio and the aux input which I use occasionally with a USB stick where I have downloaded some music.

Gary
 

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