No CD

[Roker]

After many years with my Avensis playing CDs with lots of happy memories I have just upgraded to 2020 Corrola and there is no CD player  I nearly didn't buy the car because of this. It was our pleasure on long journeys to pick a C D , Beetles, ABBA, Marmalade etc. What we going to do now, are we that far out of date. Shame on Toyota for taking our pleasure away

[FROSTYBALLS]

Most other manufacturers no longer offer CD players. 

Presumably you have a computer/laptop - so you can copy your CDs to your computer/laptop, download them to a USB memory stick, and use that in the multimedia system. If your computer/laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, external CD/DVD drives which plug into your computer/laptop, cost £20-30 or less, depending on budget.

We've done this since 2012 - and for those cars (3) which still had a CD player, never used it.

[AndrueC]

There are several options

Buy an 'external CD player' and hope that you can plug that in. Not really the best option. It's possible that such a device might not be compatible and you're still leaving yourself at the whim of a mechanical device.

Much better to rip the CDs then copy the resulting music files to a thumbdrive or your telephone and play them from there. If you can let us know your preferred operating system someone can tell you how to rip your CDs. It's a simple process.

 

[Roker]

There's quite a lot of CDs this will take time, far better if obtain a portable drive but will I loose quality via the USB?

[Bper]

Hi Dan, there are plenty of programs if you search best exact quality copy from cd. But they all will take time depending on how much music you need to rip.

You could go on Spotify or another music app and search for your music and save it in your favourite songs then if the app is available on you car. Sign in and play it from there you would then get a really good quality sound. If it's not avaible then blutooth with your phone. It's another option to consider.👍

[Roy124]

10 hours ago, FROSTYBALLS said:

Presumably you have a computer/laptop - so you can copy your CDs to your computer/laptop

Not today Frosty.  I just bought a fairly good spec laptop,  I could not get what I thought essential - CD/DVD and card reader - to match my much older laptop.  Everything is going to cloud and streaming.

Perversely, I have had to recover my card reader and a portable DVD drive that I had used before my previous laptop came so equipped.  My records, VHS tapes, cassette tapes and computer backup tapes have all gone to landfill.

One step forward, two steps back.

[FROSTYBALLS]

40 minutes ago, Roy124 said:

  I just bought a fairly good spec laptop,  I could not get what I thought essential - CD/DVD and card reader

Which is why I also said -

"If your computer/laptop doesn't have a CD/DVD drive, external CD/DVD drives which plug into your computer/laptop, cost £20-30 or less, depending on budget."

We also have bought two good spec laptops in the last 18 months, and both work fine with an external CD/DVD drive.

[Steven83]

12 hours ago, Roker said:

After many years with my Avensis playing CDs with lots of happy memories I have just upgraded to 2020 Corrola and there is no CD player  I nearly didn't buy the car because of this. It was our pleasure on long journeys to pick a C D , Beetles, ABBA, Marmalade etc. What we going to do now, are we that far out of date. Shame on Toyota for taking our pleasure away

If you have an Amazon prime subscription you also get access to their music streaming app which you can play in your car. 
Or there is Spotify which you can use for free with ads or pay monthly to remove ads. 
 

This way you have access to much more music than you can carry with you normally. 

[Steven83]

1 hour ago, Roy124 said:

Not today Frosty.  I just bought a fairly good spec laptop,  I could not get what I thought essential - CD/DVD and card reader - to match my much older laptop.  Everything is going to cloud and streaming.

Perversely, I have had to recover my card reader and a portable DVD drive that I had used before my previous laptop came so equipped.  My records, VHS tapes, cassette tapes and computer backup tapes have all gone to landfill.

One step forward, two steps back.

Records can still be played, some people take great pride in their collection and you can still buy record players from niche high end companies. So no step back there.

 

VHS and cassettes have rightly been replaced. You would have to rewind them to start over, couldn’t jump to a specific song and would easily get snagged in the players which would destroy them or make parts of them unusable. No step back there

Computer backups now go to the cloud which is far more convenient. This means you can buy a new computer and have all the info on your current computer in next to no time. The same applies to new phones. So no step back there.

 

I get it that some people don’t like change, and some changes I agree are pointless. But many have changed for the better. 

[Roker]

It's the music industries way of getting more money out of us .

First vinyl record, then 8 track tape to cassette tapes to CDs and now memory sticks. We keep buying the same music over and over because it's a long job converting to a new format

[Stopeter44]

On 7/20/2023 at 10:21 AM, Roy124 said:

Perversely, I have had to recover my card reader and a portable DVD drive that I had used before my previous laptop came so equipped.  My records, VHS tapes, cassette tapes and computer backup tapes have all gone to landfill.

One step forward, two steps back.

I'd call it two steps forward, half a step back. Perspectives, etc .. cont p.94. I think you ditched the vinyl too quickly, though, it's back in fashion, and since a good while. I have a 2012 laptop that I kept as up to date as possible for CD ripping, because for diverse reasons I have still a way to go to get all my CDs to .flac files. (I started 17 years ago, but it was mostly wiped out by Apple Music's "music match", log story, you don't want to go there). Everything tape is long gone.

[AisinW]

On 7/19/2023 at 11:21 PM, Roker said:

After many years with my Avensis playing CDs with lots of happy memories I have just upgraded to 2020 Corrola and there is no CD player  I nearly didn't buy the car because of this. It was our pleasure on long journeys to pick a C D , Beetles, ABBA, Marmalade etc. What we going to do now, are we that far out of date. Shame on Toyota for taking our pleasure away

Just rip the CDs to high beat 256 kb and save it usb stick or in your phone. Play it from there with identical sound quality from CD. CD is digital and over phone too. Only cassette players may have different sound quality (worse) than cd.