Car CD player are yesterdays technology (archive)

Having put a car CD player into my cars (Merc Ambulance and 2002 tii) in the end 70ies and early 80s, I am afraid, they just do not appeal to me anymore.
In my opinion they are clumsy and old fashioned.
Therefore "Mine" is an MP3 player which is combined to a real old in car Blaupunkt Stereo Radio Cassette player.
That work fine for me. Since I have no tape deck anymore. I got shot of the cassette players in 1979.
It doesn't have to be expensive.
Creative has a portable unit with HDD which holds about 120 CD's and which easily can be connected to a stereo.
The only problem is that it is a seperate unit and that it does not give you the comfort of easy use.
For this you have to go a step further.
Here is just one link to a built in MP3 player with traditional in car size and mountings.

But I think that the Pioneer CD player is along the right route.
At least it can play MP3 CD's. Which means that you rip the MP3s on your PC and burn them to a CD.
That gives you about 11-13 Audio CD's onto 1MP3 CD, which you can play in the Pioneer Player.

Being able to play MP3CD's is in my view a minimum requirement for any CD or DVD player.
In fact why do CD Drive still exist?
There is no need any more for them, since DVD.
But in car technology still overcharges for DVD although they don't cost more to make than CD Drives. (leave the Monitor out of this calculation).
So in my view it looks to me the best thing is to sit back and watch the developments and maybe get a portable unit which can be attached.
Best Regards
Ralf

In car mounted MP3 player

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