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I’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
by xp84 2mo ago
I’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.