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04-07-2022, 05:39 PM | #4690 |
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It pisses me off that my 2022 doesn’t have a CD player. In my last few vehicles I could play the CD once and save it. No mas. I don’t do the music on my phone so now I’m stuck with Sirius. What do my fellow old folks do? Do I need to get Shoei to teach me this apple play nonsense? Playlists? He’s gonna want a rub in return Argh! Get off my lawn.
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I have Sirius and a CD player so I don't feel your pain but I sympathize with you.
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I use Spotify, load up a playlist and it's great. It does use your phone data so best to be on an unlimited plan like I have with Verizon. Have Apple music as well, both are similar in terms of creating playlists and then the phone connects through the wifi and bluetooth in the car. The only tedious part is creating the playlists...
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04-07-2022, 05:55 PM | #4693 |
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Lol. Yes, we keep in touch. So you think owing him a rub is worth it?
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04-07-2022, 06:18 PM | #4696 | |
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Might get me banned from this thread but it really is easy. No changing CD's, you start the car and the phone automatically connects and starts playing your music. Easy to create any playlist you want, oldies , classic rock, Lawrence Welk , jazz, Blues, dance, what ever. I also use the Spotify to play my music at home in SC where it seamlessly connects with the Sonos amps driving my in-ceiling and outdoor speakers. Sorry, I'l get off your lawn now...
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I personally use Pandora on my iPhone, and have a paid subscription so that I don't have to hear the insert commercials. When you start out, Pandora will ask you to seed it with a few of your favorite songs. It then uses some top-secret algorithm to find other music that it thinks you'll like. Each song it plays has a thumbs up and thumbs down button. One tells Pandora to skip that song and you don't like it, and the other tells it that you like that song and want to hear more like it. After a few years, you will have Pandora's artificial intelligence programmed to the point where it is like a radio station that always plays your favorite songs. For CarPlay, you should be able to just plug your phone into one of the USB ports and a new Apple-looking screen will pop up on the dashboard display. If your car also has wireless CarPlay, you can follow the instruction manual to pair your phone and skip the plug. All of the music and navigation/map apps on your phone should display as icons on your dashboard display, and work more or less the same as on your phone. Playlists? I have no clue how to set one up in Apple Music. (I even have a free unlimited Apple Music subscription on my phone from Verizon that I have never used!) I'm old, and the last play list that I made involved stacking a pile of 45 RPM records onto the phonograph spindle.....
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04-07-2022, 06:23 PM | #4698 | |
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My phone is paired to my car. I don’t have music on my phone!
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04-07-2022, 06:27 PM | #4699 |
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Whether it's Pandora, Spotify or Apple, the music is not on your phone. Create the account, set up playlists on the website and the phone app will handle it all. Spotify streams my playlists from the cloud...
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OR you could rip the CD to USB, and plug that into your car
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04-08-2022, 06:43 AM | #4702 |
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Rumor has it that most recent cars have a small stereo headphone-like connector that works as an audio input jack for things like cassette Walkmans, portable CD players, 8-track tape decks, etc for us old geezers and analog-natives.....
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Well, if I'm understanding your post correctly and you don't have any music on your phone at all, Apply Play won't be of much use... Do you have a digital music selection somewhere, like on your PC (mp3 files for example)? If so, you can buy one of these little USB-C thumb drives and copy those files to it: USB-C thumb drive. Then, in your center arm rest compartment, just plug it in to the slot located in there and select that as your music source from iDrive. It's pretty easy, assuming you have a digital music source to copy to the drive. As an added benefit, your music will sound significantly better than streaming from Sirius. Last edited by BMWGUYinCO; 04-08-2022 at 09:07 AM.. |
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I've recently discovered you can buy a USB dock for a SSD hard drive and plug it directly in to read music files. It's a bit more clunky than a little thumb drive I guess, but good if you have a big library.
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Get off our lawns, kid! I have rat-tail and bastard files in my toolbox, but no MP3 files.....
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LOL, I did too until a couple of months ago! - I ripped them all to digital format...took me a couple of weeks as I had about 220 CDs. I just did it while I sat on one Zoom meeting after another for work.
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