Auxiliary CD player

[DanAR]

I’m one of the old guys with a good sized CD collection that just never got into loading music on an iPhone or thumb drive and could hardly bear the loss of a CD player in the new vehicles. I found on Amazon an USB powered auxiliary CD player called Jupiter and purchased it. It works great with the RAM media center and plays through the vehicles controls. It’s a substantial unit of seemingly good quality, not flimsy cheap and I just set it down in the lower console level. Posting in case anyone has been missing a CD player as I have.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRH1XPCM?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

 

[markabby]

thanks. i was going to try a cd player from a laptop i tore apart, but maybe i'll look into that, it seems like a better option

 

[Tulecreeper]

I'm old school, too. I already had most all my CD's ripped to my Music folder on my PC (yeah, a PC too), so I copied all of it to a couple of 8Gb thumb drives (Rock and Country separate) and now I can just stick it into the Aux slot below the radio and play them that way. It's kind of a PITA to do it intially, but you will be glad you do when you're through. And in the future, if you acquire more, you can just add it to the thumb drive.

 

[DanAR]

Pictures of the unit.

 

[CanuckRam1313]

I have some 8-tracks from back in the day I wish I could still play.
One of my fav's is the Boston album...

I also have a ton of cassette tapes I'd love to be able to play again, but alas, this is hard to do nowadays.

My CD collection is insane...but I ripped many of them onto my computer years back and then filled a jump drive so I could play them while driving.

 

[markabby]

I'm old school, too. I already had most all my CD's ripped to my Music folder on my PC (yeah, a PC too), so I copied all of it to a couple of 8Gb thumb drives (Rock and Country separate) and now I can just stick it into the Aux slot below the radio and play them that way. It's kind of a PITA to do it intially, but you will be glad you do when you're through. And in the future, if you acquire more, you can just add it to the thumb drive.

i tried that....on to a usb drive, but no matter if i did mp3 or mp4 it would not play.

 

[JayLeonard]

I use thumb drives a lot especially in my TT. I have so much music on my laptop from my son in law who used to DJ at parties. One I use now has over 1800 songs on it.
This winter I plan on recording all of my CDs onto my laptop.

 

[Tulecreeper]

i tried that....on to a usb drive, but no matter if i did mp3 or mp4 it would not play.

Interesting. Some of mine are Mp3, and some are WMA, and they all play. I have noticed that the ones that were recorded in Mp3 format are the only ones that show the album art. These are all from cassettes I ripped through a analog-to-digital interface I had a number of years ago.

 

[Tulecreeper]

I use thumb drives a lot especially in my TT. I have so much music on my laptop from my son in law who used to DJ at parties. One I use now has over 1800 songs on it.
This winter I plan on recording all of my CDs onto my laptop.

I also have about 1800 songs in several different genres. I thought I had a lot, until another retired Chief Petty Officer I know said he had over 4000 that he was working on copying to thumb drives.

 

[turkeybird56]

I have an early build Gen 5 2019 Bighorn 1500, which has Factory single CD player installed.