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IMO, CD with mp3 is the sweetspot for car use. Regular CD is too short and it's awkward and/or dangerous to choose and change the next disc while driving. Some

IMO, CD with mp3 is the sweetspot for car use. Regular CD is too short and it's awkward and/or dangerous to choose and change the next disc while driving. Some flash based storage with ton of music on the other hand gives too much choice and it's hard to pick next album while driving. Spotify can be ok but if algorithm takes you to a strange place it's also not easy to switch something else with hands on the wheel. And there's a question of cell coverage, or roaming costs if you drive across countries. I know you can download on Spotify, I'm using it as an example of "play anything" streaming vs preloaded collection. CD with mp3 gives something like 10 hours of music which is perfect for longer trips. You spend one time to make few compilations, you pick a disc depending on a mood and you're covered for the whole trip, you don't think about poor reception. Sure, you can also make playlists with Spotify/flash, but you're not "forced" by medium so we mostly don't do it. And if there's a passenger willing to be a dj then it's a different thing.

reginald78 2y ago
I use this feature for audio books. With regular audio CDs there is way to much swapping but MP3 CDs it isn't worth mentioning really since it is ~10 times less frequent.
vel0city 2y ago
Android Auto / Carplay seem like the sweetspot for car use to me. When I want to play something else, I press a button on the steering wheel, say "Play playlist whatever" or "Play album foo by bar.", and it plays it. Or when I'm stopped at a stop light, I've got a big display to navigate to what I'm looking for. If you're getting 10 hours of playback on 700MB that music must be pretty heavily compressed. 128kbps AAC I guess would get you there, 256kbps would be 1125MB. 192kbps MP3 is a bit over 800MB, so you're not getting even that quality on an MP3 CD.
- grujicd 2y ago
  There's variable bit rate mp3, so it varies depending on source material. That said, 10 hours is a rule of thumb. You put albums until CD is full. And car on a highway is not an environment differences between bitrates really matter. Also, "play album by foo" voice command doesn't really work when you have non-english names. Or even english based names when you're not a native speaker with good pronunciation.

reginald78 2y ago

I use this feature for audio books. With regular audio CDs there is way to much swapping but MP3 CDs it isn't worth mentioning really since it is ~10 times less frequent.

vel0city 2y ago

Android Auto / Carplay seem like the sweetspot for car use to me. When I want to play something else, I press a button on the steering wheel, say "Play playlist whatever" or "Play album foo by bar.", and it plays it. Or when I'm stopped at a stop light, I've got a big display to navigate to what I'm looking for. If you're getting 10 hours of playback on 700MB that music must be pretty heavily compressed. 128kbps AAC I guess would get you there, 256kbps would be 1125MB. 192kbps MP3 is a bit over 800MB, so you're not getting even that quality on an MP3 CD.

grujicd 2y ago
There's variable bit rate mp3, so it varies depending on source material. That said, 10 hours is a rule of thumb. You put albums until CD is full. And car on a highway is not an environment differences between bitrates really matter. Also, "play album by foo" voice command doesn't really work when you have non-english names. Or even english based names when you're not a native speaker with good pronunciation.