EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.
Please don’t make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.
This type of shit is why I just want a vehicle with a CD player that can hold multiple discs. Then I could just burn my favorite music onto a few discs and not have to worry about not having paid to have access to the music I want and don’t have to worry about a song I dislike popping up randomly.
…or with a usb/sd port, there’s no need to go back all the way to 90s/2000s tech for simple offline music playback
Hey dont dis 90s/2000s tech a cassette deck with an aux jack is rather versatile.
My car has a SD card slot that it will read music off of. The first week I had it, I loaded up a disc with as much music as I could. I haven’t switched it out in 3 years.
It has been quite nice. Until this post, I had almost forgotten where my music was coming from.
What kind of car? Stock radio?
2017 VW golf, and yeah stick. The SD slot is hidden in the glovebox.
A good solution 20 years ago but bluetooth and music files saved on your phone is a much nicer solution now.
For $100 you can buy an aftermarket Android head unit with Android Auto / Car Play support, or add $100 more to buy a nicer version.
But that’s precisely what they don’t want because any day, it could be bricked by one of several companies.
One that can take a USB storage device or an SD card would be much better. Same result, but no messing around with discs and it can hold way more music.
this is what I did.
Used SpotDL to download my entire spotify library, put on USB, now I have my whole library available, even if my phone is dead
High tech from the 90’s :-D
You might really enjoy Plex + Plexamp. You own the library and choose your media but you don’t burn CDs and can instead stream/pin (for offline) songs or playlists like you’d expect from a paid music service.
They offer a decent car interface as well.
MP3 CDs hold about 120 songs, which is pretty much the perfect amount to be able to curate while also not have to swap out discs too often.
Or 5 Meatloaf songs. I like his music but it would be nice if he could have figured out how to write a less than 20 minute song.
I got an old beater with a tape player and discovered they make Bluetooth adapters just like the old fm adapters i used years ago. Combined with a gig hdd dedicated to music on my phone and it feels like the old days again of burned cds and pirate bay
My vehicle has a usb port. I never run out of music and I can listen to whatever I want.
Just get songs from fileshares and play on a DAP.