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It cannot self-propagate to any Android-based head unit Remember that not that long ago viruses spread through floppy disks. Today, people share USB sticks fu
by reaperducer 2mo ago
It cannot self-propagate to any Android-based head unit
Remember that not that long ago viruses spread through floppy disks.
Today, people share USB sticks full of music from one car to another all the time. They also bring their music from their home car to a rental car and back.
- charcircuit 2mo agoMost people just bring their phone between cars for music.
- pdonis 2mo agoMy phone is much clunkier to use for this than a USB stick. Plus my phone can't store my whole music library (because there's too much other stuff already on it), whereas a single USB stick does it easily with plenty of room to spare.
- charcircuit 2mo agoPhones can access the whole internet. A USB stick can't stream Spotify or connect to the cloud.
- pdonis 2mo agoWhich doesn't matter to me since the music I'm talking about is music I already have on the USB stick (because it's music I've collected over years and years of buying CDs, mostly before ways of streaming music over the Internet even existed), and I mostly want to listen to that. If I want something else, I can just use XM radio.
- dolmen 2mo agoYou'll be surprised, but some places where a car can go have no phone connectivity.
- xp84 2mo agoI’ve never met anyone irl who used USB sticks full of music. I know the capability is there in most cars, just never seen it. It seems like Bluetooth capability and Spotify/Apple Music landed in mainstream cars too soon after “play MP3s from USB” was added, for that to catch on.
- briHass 2mo agoMy hand is raised. I like having 8GB of music on an old (USB2 is fine) flash drive in my car as a fallback. On longer trips I'll hookup the Android Auto, but if I don't need maps and it's a quick ride, shuffle & repeat all enabled on the USB source. Sure beats the radio, which plays 2 songs and then 5 min of commercials/sweepers, and has the gall to run ads on the HD text transmission on FM designed for song information.
- pdonis 2mo ago> I’ve never met anyone irl who used USB sticks full of music. I've been doing it for years, since it's so much more convenient than the alternatives: plug the stick into my car and I have my whole music library there and it Just Works.
- zdragnar 2mo agoI did it for a few years, back when I had a new car with the capability but not a phone with a good mobile data plan. It had the benefit of an information center with physical buttons too, so I could navigate around my library without touch screen madness or voice commands constantly failing to understand band and song names.
- creaturemachine 2mo agoI have 256GB of FLAC in my car, and it's great.
- dolmen 2mo agoWe haven't met yet. We use an USB key full of audio books: Harry Potter saga and The Quest of Ewilan among others. The whole family is hooked. The car UI is much more reliable (no phone to unlock by the copilot, no Bluetooth disconnect). The phone battery is spared for navigation purposes.