Have you just purchased a Mercedes & are ready to hit the road and play your favourite CD?
Then you may have noticed that your new car might not have a CD slot....
Hey guys & welcome to the channel yes that's right sadly CD's have become a thing of the past.
So if you have just bought a brand new car how do you play your favourite CD collection in it?
Well sadly you can't directly but in this video today I'll show you some workarounds
which will show you how to do it!
Now streaming music is definitely the easiest so with physical media that has become a thing
of the past and moved away to being digital, this is certainly one way of playing music in your car.
Most cars these days have Bluetooth capability which essentially connects
it for calls and to access your phonebook so you know who's calling
but most importantly with Bluetooth you can play music directly from your phone.
This method streaming music is certainly the easiest with some streaming services
allowing access to over 90 million songs,
the chances that your CD collection are within this are pretty high!
And you just pay a set amount per month and then you have access to almost any artist
literally anywhere so this is really good you know the convenience factor is right up there.
Most popular choices today are Apple Music, Spotify,
Amazon Music, YouTube Music and even Tidal as well.
So these are things to consider because they all have different features and prices and that sort
of thing although most of them do offer a free trial, Spotify is quite unique though because
it does offer a free tier but you do have adverts in between selected songs and that sort of thing.
So that sounds really good but what about the downsides.
Well the downsides are it uses your data allowance each month for your
phone because obviously you're streaming the music so if you don't have a high
data package for your phone then you can easily burn through that.
You do have to pay for the music monthly because it is a you know
subscribable package and you don't actually own the music.
So what about if you want to use your existing CD's and get those converted to
kind of a digital format...
This is where we'll make use of a USB stick and convert CD's to this.
This is great if you don't want to pay monthly
to access music and want to use music you already own.
Yes it requires a little bit of work but one of these a typical 32 GB memory stick
can hold 6k to 8k songs which can be up to 600 albums!
So how'd you do it?
Well of course you will need that memory stick so if you don't have
one I'll pop a link down below in case you wanted to get one yourself
and you will need a USB-C adapter if your car has USB-C ports they look a bit like this.
So grab yourself one of those as well if you need an adapter now finally in this chain you
then will need a laptop with a CD drive so you can actually get them copied to the memory stick.
So this next bit will show you how to do that.
So first things first pop your CD into your drive on your laptop depending on your
operating system if you have a MAC by Apple you might want to use Apple music or iTunes
or if you use Windows the one with the start logo down here
you can choose a program like Windows Media Player which is built right in.
Once the CD is in load up your program of choice,
in this case I'll use Apple Music or iTunes and you'll find on the top a picture of a CD.
Click this one and then click import CD on the right.
This will then take a short while while it copies the tracks to your computer.
After this is finished you'll then want to copy them to the memory stick itself
so plug your memory stick in, open it up on Computer or Finder if you're using a Mac,
then highlight the songs you want to copy and drag them into the folder.
As you may have a few albums I would strongly recommend
placing them into folders when on the memory stick just to keep it organised.
So once you've done all of this lets have a look and see what it looks like in the car!
So then guys once you've done that and copied the music from your computer to your memory stick,
you're then ready to plug it into the car so once you plug it in,
it literally just starts playing now of course don't forget some models or Mercedes do have
USB-C ports you might need that dongle again that link is below just in case you need it.
So yeah once it's plugged in it will start playing and what it actually does by default is play
all the songs back to back, I think in alphabetical order.
But you might want to browse your albums so this is why I said create
the folders because if you've done that
all you do is click on this one just here and then you'll see "Folder" over on the right hand side .
So if I tap on that one you'll then see the folders just the same way they were shown
on the computer if you tagged all of your kind of songs with you know your artist,
albums, song information then those will appear on there and you can manually type that out on
Windows Media Player and iTunes or Apple Music but for simplistic sake if you put them in folders
even if you don't have that data they'll all be categorised correctly.
So now click on the Nick O'Leary's Mix and then choose my preferred song
just one of those and it will start playing!
So you can literally have all of these different songs in the car without having
to swap CD's or anything that because they're all stored on that one memory
stick and that is how you convert all your CD's to a digital format in your new car!
And there we go then guys that concludes this week's video on how to copy a CD to a memory
stick but guys if you want to know more tutorials check out this playlist right here because this
one houses all of my Mercedes-Benz Tips & Tricks that I've made over the past couple of years or so
well guys thank you so much for watching huge shout out to these guys Sandown Mercedes-Benz
as they help provide access to all these awesome cars in the videos!
Until next week guys see you then!