For some reason or other, a number of car manufactures think CDs are too "old school" to still include them in their car's audio system. Maybe they are right, but I'll bet they weren't thinking of those hundreds of thousand people who have libraries of CDs -- bought and paid for CDs. What are WE supposed to do? I certainly am not going to throw out my CD library or take the time to copy each of those 300 or so CDs to my smart phone or to little thumb drives that are going to definitely get lost in between the seats! (you KNOW they will!) and how do you know what is recorded on all the thumb drives you will have to carry around? No...I want to play my CDs like I always have in the three cars I've owned before this one and not have to take the time to transfer the content just because the car manufacturer wanted to save 100 bucks by not putting in a CD player. I want a CD insert that lists all the cuts on the CD so I know what to put in the player.
So here's the solution: this beautiful little unit plays CDs; it's easy to use and fits perfectly in the center console storage space. I plugged it into the car's USB port and the audio system recognized it and paired immediately without my having to do anything, It indexed all the songs on the CD album and the sound was as I expected, great CD quality (not crappy MP3 quality, which is what it would be if I transferred the audio to a thumb drive as MP3s, which are the only practical way to do it with any kind of space saving).
My one caveat about this unit is that I wish it had physical Start, Stop, Scan Forward and Scan Reverse buttons because it will all depend on the car's display software for perform these functions; my car's audio display screen, remarkably, has NONE of those rudimentary functions. All I can do on the car's display is go back or forward across each track. It would have been nice had the player itself included those function buttons. Other than that, this is such a lifesaver for old folks like us who still have their CD collection and simply will not chuck them all out and rely on other sources for the music we want, nor relish the prospect of needing to spend hours transfer tons of CDs to some other format just to be able to hear the music on my Civic Hatchback. Bad, BAD Toyota!
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UPDATE: what I also discovered this unit would grately benefit having is a hinged door on the CD slot. One that opens for you to place the CD into the player. Why? Because the only way I found that made sense on where to mount the unit was in the console between the seats. And that meant it is oriented standing up with its "mouth" i.e., the slot where the CD player is ingested into the unit, is facing up. That means any dirt or food crumbs that accidentally fall anywhere near the console (come on, you KNOW you eat in the car) are going to fall into that CD opening slot. Even if you are meticulous in not letting ANYTHING fall near that open slot facing UPWARD, normal dust is going to settle into that forever wide open slot and do very nasty stuff to the mechanism inside. You KNOW that shortcoming of not having some sort of mechanical "door" that opens only when a CD is being put ingested in or being spit out, is going to cut the lifespan of this unit by years if you don't do something to fix it.
My fix is a piece of soft packing material foam that i cut to the side of the pocket in the console where the unit is living. I leave that foam on top of the unit all the time other than when changing CDs. If you need to mount this unit facing up instead of horizontally, you better figure out how to protect the open CD slot to prevent debris from falling into it along with the CDs you put in and take out. Just sayin...word to the wise.
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| Sold By | Amazon.com | Amazon.com | POSSPO-USA | Excelsior USA |
| power source | Corded Electric | Corded Electric,Usb Cable | Corded Electric | Battery-Powered |
| weight | 1.72 pounds | 1.4 pounds | — | 0.25 kilograms |
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Mounting the unit is the key
Mounted unit in storage box between the seats; plugged into USB port utilizing short extension provided. Used double-sided tape squares to mount unit to inside wall of storage box, upright (see photo)
