CD player for 2017 XT5
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CD's unfortunately are going the way of the cassette tape, as a result of the popularity of streaming. I have not found a portable BT CD player, and instead have opted to rip my entire CD collection to 320K MP3, and load to a USB stick. While the music quality is certainly diminished, at 320K, it's not noticeable at all. Just one large USB stick took over 8,000 songs which covers hundreds of CD's. Lot easier to handle for sure.
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I HAVE A 2020 XT5 WITH CUE AND BOSE 14 SPEAKER SET UP.
HAVE GONE TO CAR STEREO SHOPS, TRIED BLUETOOTH PORTABLE CD PLAYER WITH USB PORT, WON'T PAIR. MOST HAVE USB BUT NEED AN AUXILLARY PORT TOO. WHICH IS NOT ON MY CAR. SOMEONE SUGGESTED THE FM ATTCHMENT. I DONT WANT TO CANCEL OUT MY WARRANTY.
NO, I DONT WANT TO LOAD THEM ON A STICK. HAS ANYONE FOUND AN EXTERIOR DRIVE WITH USB THAT WILL WORK?
I HAVE WATCHED COUNTLESS YOU TUBE VIDEOS. THEY GO UP TO 2019 MODEL.
I HAVE SEARCHED EBAY AND AMAZON. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?
I PAIRED MY PHONE. I HAVE A HOT SPOT. I HAVE PANDORA. BUT, I JUST WANT TO PLAY MY CD'S. BOO HOO
HAVE GONE TO CAR STEREO SHOPS, TRIED BLUETOOTH PORTABLE CD PLAYER WITH USB PORT, WON'T PAIR. MOST HAVE USB BUT NEED AN AUXILLARY PORT TOO. WHICH IS NOT ON MY CAR. SOMEONE SUGGESTED THE FM ATTCHMENT. I DONT WANT TO CANCEL OUT MY WARRANTY.
NO, I DONT WANT TO LOAD THEM ON A STICK. HAS ANYONE FOUND AN EXTERIOR DRIVE WITH USB THAT WILL WORK?
I HAVE WATCHED COUNTLESS YOU TUBE VIDEOS. THEY GO UP TO 2019 MODEL.
I HAVE SEARCHED EBAY AND AMAZON. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?
I PAIRED MY PHONE. I HAVE A HOT SPOT. I HAVE PANDORA. BUT, I JUST WANT TO PLAY MY CD'S. BOO HOO
I'd like to again suggest to stop wasting your time looking backwards. Ripping a CD at 320kb MP3 is easy on PC and you can fit hundreds of CD's and thousands of songs on a single USB drive. They stopped equipping vehicles with CD players for a reason. They have gone the same way of cassettes and 8 tracks before that. You'll spend far less time searching and you will enjoy the result much more if you look to the future.
It's really quite easy -- You just put the CD into the Disk Drive in the PC. Open Windows Media Player, and you should see the app immediately recognize the CD - Album Name, each Song, etc. If not, right click on the Audio CD icon and select Find Album Info.
Select all songs, go to Rip Settings, then More Options, then select the location of the USB Drive and at the bottom move the slider all the way to the right to 320Kbps. Hit Apply and OK. Then just hit Rip CD and it will automatically create a folder for the Artist, then a folder for the Album. In the car, you see the same drill down directory system. Listing of Artists, then when you click on that folder, you will see all of the albums, and then songs. Very nicely organized.
If you want to quickly do a bunch of CD's, go back to the settings, and select Rip CD Automatically, and Eject DC after ripping. Then the Disk drive will open when done, you swap to a new disc, close and it starts ripping, and will continue this cycle until you stop. Very, very easy. Just for reference, I just did a quick test to jot down the process, and the CD ended up ripping to a MP3 size of 102MB, out of a small 32GB $3 USB drive. That will handle around 300 albums. Frankly, I'm not even sure you can buy a drive this small, but 128GB USB drive will handle roughly 4 times as much content in a drive you can leave permanently installed.
If you don't have a PC, and have Apple instead, perhaps someone will be nice enough to provide those instructions.
Last very important foot note, when you make these drives, ALWAYS save a backup copy on your PC, in the event the USB Drive gets corrupted for some reason or lost. Then you can just pull everything to the new drive very quickly, and avoid having to rip all of the CD's again.
Once you get this figured out, you will be amazed and wonder why you haven't taken the 5 minutes to learn this long ago!!
Feel free to PM me if you need help.
It's really quite easy -- You just put the CD into the Disk Drive in the PC. Open Windows Media Player, and you should see the app immediately recognize the CD - Album Name, each Song, etc. If not, right click on the Audio CD icon and select Find Album Info.
Select all songs, go to Rip Settings, then More Options, then select the location of the USB Drive and at the bottom move the slider all the way to the right to 320Kbps. Hit Apply and OK. Then just hit Rip CD and it will automatically create a folder for the Artist, then a folder for the Album. In the car, you see the same drill down directory system. Listing of Artists, then when you click on that folder, you will see all of the albums, and then songs. Very nicely organized.
If you want to quickly do a bunch of CD's, go back to the settings, and select Rip CD Automatically, and Eject DC after ripping. Then the Disk drive will open when done, you swap to a new disc, close and it starts ripping, and will continue this cycle until you stop. Very, very easy. Just for reference, I just did a quick test to jot down the process, and the CD ended up ripping to a MP3 size of 102MB, out of a small 32GB $3 USB drive. That will handle around 300 albums. Frankly, I'm not even sure you can buy a drive this small, but 128GB USB drive will handle roughly 4 times as much content in a drive you can leave permanently installed.
If you don't have a PC, and have Apple instead, perhaps someone will be nice enough to provide those instructions.
Last very important foot note, when you make these drives, ALWAYS save a backup copy on your PC, in the event the USB Drive gets corrupted for some reason or lost. Then you can just pull everything to the new drive very quickly, and avoid having to rip all of the CD's again.
Once you get this figured out, you will be amazed and wonder why you haven't taken the 5 minutes to learn this long ago!!
Feel free to PM me if you need help.
Agree with MrMarcher. I would pay a neighborhood teenager 1/2 of what you would pay for the CD player you are looking for to rip your CDs to a USB stick, then copy the sticks. Add the files to your phone or upload to Amazon music and use the Cue to play your tunes. No fumbling, scratching, losing CDs. I would tend to see your point if there was some nostalgia here, but it ain't vinyl. But, if it is something you are dead set on, best of luck in your search !
So nice of you to explain the process...
However, I already knew that. I figured 8 tracks would come up from someone🤣
Many music lovers still have fabulous vinyl record collections. Many people use Kindles and computers to read. But some people still have books. In fact many first editions in many fields are quite valuable.
Why own a Stutz or a Packard when you can have a brand new Kia? Guess some people just want what's next.
Planned obsolescence is the marketing magnet. Let's have mountains of junk in land fills. There are millions of people addicted to what's next. I know some people must have a new model phone or car every year. And if that makes them happy, that's what counts.
Well by now, many of you reading this have probably already figured out that I have an extensive vinyl collection,c d and cassette tape collection ... Wasn't into the 8 track thing.
So, thanks again. I'm confident something will turn up.
However, I already knew that. I figured 8 tracks would come up from someone🤣
Many music lovers still have fabulous vinyl record collections. Many people use Kindles and computers to read. But some people still have books. In fact many first editions in many fields are quite valuable.
Why own a Stutz or a Packard when you can have a brand new Kia? Guess some people just want what's next.
Planned obsolescence is the marketing magnet. Let's have mountains of junk in land fills. There are millions of people addicted to what's next. I know some people must have a new model phone or car every year. And if that makes them happy, that's what counts.
Well by now, many of you reading this have probably already figured out that I have an extensive vinyl collection,c d and cassette tape collection ... Wasn't into the 8 track thing.
So, thanks again. I'm confident something will turn up.
Could do it myself if I chose to. This is not a matter of not knowing how to rip a CD.
I miss having a CD player. Yes, I subscribe to a streaming service (Deezer) and to SiriusXM. But it's nice to grab a CD or three off the shelf before hitting the road. I can stream those albums, but to my ear the sound quality isn't as good as a CD. To each his own.
Fwiw AVAS, I'm a high-end audio enthusiast as well, and have approx $60K into my home theater. I've got crates of my old 70's and 80's import vinyl, and absolutely enjoy pulling those out, along with my SACD's, DTS, and one off custom surround mixes I've collected over the years I've got on NAS servers. I don't consider myself a snob by any stretch, but I know enough to realize that all solutions require a thorough understanding of the environment, which is often the limitation foundation you need to build from - and is absolutely part of the equation here...
My CVO Harley has 8 speakers and a sub, running over 2,000w, and I've placed in the top three a couple of times in regional competition without really trying. However, on the highway, while loud and clear, it looses alot of the <60-80hz range at speed. But it will destroy your Bose system in SQ and loudness every day. In my vehicles - Cars & Boats, cannot tell you how many stock oem sound systems I've ripped out for aftermarket builds, and surely, I trust you've looked at the quality of the Bose components, right? Pretty much across the board, the number one thing you can do for the best bang for the buck is to rip out all of the Bose speakers in favor of just about anything else. I've tried all sorts head units, amps, speakers, subs, dsp, and other stuff over the years, but I digress. Irrelevant to go further.
The fact is, the thing you are missing is A) the Cadillac Bose system isn't high end by a long shot - Bose induces more artificial processing than any other audio system known to man, and let's not forget about ASM, B) unless you are sitting still, with the engine off, the environment is far from ideal - and diminishes quickly with speed - which in turn, ups the processing even more, and C) the only Remote Portable CD Players available are pretty low end and will provide mediocre output even in the best of conditions - again, when you are sitting still, with the engine off. If you think you are going to get Oppo performance out of a portable at any price, please rethink that expectation. Your options are minimal at best, but you already know that.
Again, if you rip your own CD's at 320kb, and play it side by side, its very hard to tell the difference at any speed over 30 MPH. I'm not saying to make this your ONLY solution, but seeing you cannot find an acceptable (in your opinion) CD Player option, what are you going to do in the interim?? I'm suggesting to Try it, Test it, and continue your CD Player Search. What do you have to lose? Boycotting a first step solution over the guise of upholding your audiophile integrity, while running Bose stuff, is a bit comical. Even CD44 pales in comparison to CD192, but the fact is, you will never hear the difference in anything but a controlled environment, which a vehicle will never be. And for that matter, many people cannot hear the difference in blind tests between CD and MP3-320 in an automobile.
That all said, here's the KICKER. If you open the manual, you might stumble on the fact that the 2020 system will handle FLAC. If you review the entire procedure I graciously shared above, and instead of selecting MP3, select FLAC (Lossless), you will absolutely, without any doubt, end up with a result far better than ANY portable CD player can ever provide at any price point, PERIOD. There is no better solution with the stock OEM system.
Give that a whirl. You're welcome.
My CVO Harley has 8 speakers and a sub, running over 2,000w, and I've placed in the top three a couple of times in regional competition without really trying. However, on the highway, while loud and clear, it looses alot of the <60-80hz range at speed. But it will destroy your Bose system in SQ and loudness every day. In my vehicles - Cars & Boats, cannot tell you how many stock oem sound systems I've ripped out for aftermarket builds, and surely, I trust you've looked at the quality of the Bose components, right? Pretty much across the board, the number one thing you can do for the best bang for the buck is to rip out all of the Bose speakers in favor of just about anything else. I've tried all sorts head units, amps, speakers, subs, dsp, and other stuff over the years, but I digress. Irrelevant to go further.
The fact is, the thing you are missing is A) the Cadillac Bose system isn't high end by a long shot - Bose induces more artificial processing than any other audio system known to man, and let's not forget about ASM, B) unless you are sitting still, with the engine off, the environment is far from ideal - and diminishes quickly with speed - which in turn, ups the processing even more, and C) the only Remote Portable CD Players available are pretty low end and will provide mediocre output even in the best of conditions - again, when you are sitting still, with the engine off. If you think you are going to get Oppo performance out of a portable at any price, please rethink that expectation. Your options are minimal at best, but you already know that.
Again, if you rip your own CD's at 320kb, and play it side by side, its very hard to tell the difference at any speed over 30 MPH. I'm not saying to make this your ONLY solution, but seeing you cannot find an acceptable (in your opinion) CD Player option, what are you going to do in the interim?? I'm suggesting to Try it, Test it, and continue your CD Player Search. What do you have to lose? Boycotting a first step solution over the guise of upholding your audiophile integrity, while running Bose stuff, is a bit comical. Even CD44 pales in comparison to CD192, but the fact is, you will never hear the difference in anything but a controlled environment, which a vehicle will never be. And for that matter, many people cannot hear the difference in blind tests between CD and MP3-320 in an automobile.
That all said, here's the KICKER. If you open the manual, you might stumble on the fact that the 2020 system will handle FLAC. If you review the entire procedure I graciously shared above, and instead of selecting MP3, select FLAC (Lossless), you will absolutely, without any doubt, end up with a result far better than ANY portable CD player can ever provide at any price point, PERIOD. There is no better solution with the stock OEM system.
Give that a whirl. You're welcome.
I have had my 2020 xt5 since April. I have searched everywhere too. Everything goes up to 2019. Saw one this morning that there was one , up to 2020. However, I am afraid of voiding warranty on the CUE.I HAVE A 2020 XT5 WITH CUE AND BOSE 14 SPEAKER SET UP.
HAVE GONE TO CAR STEREO SHOPS, TRIED BLUETOOTH PORTABLE CD PLAYER WITH USB PORT, WON'T PAIR. MOST HAVE USB BUT NEED AN AUXILLARY PORT TOO. WHICH IS NOT ON MY CAR. SOMEONE SUGGESTED THE FM ATTCHMENT. I DONT WANT TO CANCEL OUT MY WARRANTY.
NO, I DONT WANT TO LOAD THEM ON A STICK. HAS ANYONE FOUND AN EXTERIOR DRIVE WITH USB THAT WILL WORK?
I HAVE WATCHED COUNTLESS YOU TUBE VIDEOS. THEY GO UP TO 2019 MODEL.
I HAVE SEARCHED EBAY AND AMAZON. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?
I PAIRED MY PHONE. I HAVE A HOT SPOT. I HAVE PANDORA. BUT, I JUST WANT TO PLAY MY CD'S. BOO HOO
It was under factory parts.com 316.00 plug in with usb.I HAVE A 2020 XT5 WITH CUE AND BOSE 14 SPEAKER SET UP.
HAVE GONE TO CAR STEREO SHOPS, TRIED BLUETOOTH PORTABLE CD PLAYER WITH USB PORT, WON'T PAIR. MOST HAVE USB BUT NEED AN AUXILLARY PORT TOO. WHICH IS NOT ON MY CAR. SOMEONE SUGGESTED THE FM ATTCHMENT. I DONT WANT TO CANCEL OUT MY WARRANTY.
NO, I DONT WANT TO LOAD THEM ON A STICK. HAS ANYONE FOUND AN EXTERIOR DRIVE WITH USB THAT WILL WORK?
I HAVE WATCHED COUNTLESS YOU TUBE VIDEOS. THEY GO UP TO 2019 MODEL.
I HAVE SEARCHED EBAY AND AMAZON. WHY IS THIS SO DIFFICULT?
I PAIRED MY PHONE. I HAVE A HOT SPOT. I HAVE PANDORA. BUT, I JUST WANT TO PLAY MY CD'S. BOO HOO
I have a 2020 xt5 premium luxury. 14 speaker bose upgrade. Found one cd player this morning at factory parts.com
316.00 plug in with usb. Give your vehicle vin info on chat. They will tell you yes or no.
I have searched since April when I bought the xt5.
Fear voiding the cadillac warranty on the Cue.
I understand exactly how you feel. I have Pandora too. They replay the same stuff for the artist you choose. I want to play my cd's. Too much to ask from Cadillac. I don't know about you, but I have had cadillac for 30 years and this one doesn't cut it. Interior leather smells like plastic.
I'm sorry I traded in my perfect 07 Dts luxury 3 with 70,000 miles. Titanium in and out. Beautiful Cadillac.
316.00 plug in with usb. Give your vehicle vin info on chat. They will tell you yes or no.
I have searched since April when I bought the xt5.
Fear voiding the cadillac warranty on the Cue.
I understand exactly how you feel. I have Pandora too. They replay the same stuff for the artist you choose. I want to play my cd's. Too much to ask from Cadillac. I don't know about you, but I have had cadillac for 30 years and this one doesn't cut it. Interior leather smells like plastic.
I'm sorry I traded in my perfect 07 Dts luxury 3 with 70,000 miles. Titanium in and out. Beautiful Cadillac.
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