...OTOH, I really like the ability to put my own music onto a USB stick, and play it in the car.
My purchased music is now via FLAC downloads, and joins my older CD library, ripped to FLAC, on my NAS, from whence it can be streamed to the two hifi systems in the house, or to various other online devices.
I convert this FLAC library to MP3 (at 320kbps) for the vehicles (3 off) to keep overall size down since I've encountered a maximum size USB stick of 64GB on one of them, and, though I swear I can tell the difference in sound quality on the hifi, I can't discern it in the vehicles.
The interfaces in the cars and motorhomes are different, but all pretty easy to use, and having in excess of 400 albums to choose from is quite pleasing.
Given that I choose to rip to FLAC for home use, the conversion to MP3 for vehicle use is simple. I can convert as many FLAC files/albums to MP3 as I want in just a single batch run. Once the conversion parameters are set up it is easily repeatable (and, not using CD as the source, fast).
Far more reliable than car CD and better quality than cassette (or eight-track); though if anyone has a car record-player, I'd take it off their hands. ;-)
(Probably the nearest I came to that was a Uni friend whose ageing Anglia was fitted with a valve car radio)
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