Rezolution
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Just buy a Bluetooth cd player. You should be able to leave it in the center console. There is a 12vDC plug in there too...
TRADED 2003 FOR 2019 EXPEDITION HAVING TROUBLE FINDING CD PLAYER.... HELP??
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tommyddsr
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Welcome to the 90's!!!!
CD’s do have much better sound quality than any digital offering. I rarely ever use them but when I have run a CD it blows my iPhone out of the water on sound quality. So much clearer and much more powerful music produced off the disk. Still don’t use them…a lot of work to sift through CD. They need to improve digital music to at least match though.
ManUpOrShutUp
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You can rip a CD to FLAC, WAV or any other lossless format to a USB stick and the quality will be identical to the CD. Lossy formats like MP3 will always be inferior.
Unfortunately, digital files degrade over time. Also, to play the files wirelessly, the players have to replay compressed versions of the files, so no matter how well the digital format retains quality, playing over bt will always prevent it from sounding as good.
ManUpOrShutUp
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CDs are a digital format. There is literally no difference between a WAV stored on a CD and the same WAV stored on a USB.
SyndicateZ
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Ok im not the only crazy one in thinking music from a cd sounds better
ManUpOrShutUp
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What part are you not understanding here? This isn't a complex topic.
SyndicateZ
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Im not making it complex. CD's just sound better to me
A couple of comments...
First of all - yes both CDs and MP3 format digital files on a USB are both digital representations of music, and a CD can be burned to MP3 and stored on a computer or USB memory stick. However - and this is important - MP3 files are compressed, which means data is lost and the signals are in fact degraded from a CD format. The issue is that MP3 files are typically anywhere from 1/4 to 1/10 or less than the size of the same song on a CD. So all the people that are saying the CD sounds better, you are right, there is more data and signal there and you can hear the difference, just like you can hear the difference between a CD and the better sounding version of the same song on a vinyl record. Many people can not hear the difference however, so for a lot of the world there is effectively no difference.
Second - it seems people are having success with devices like this plugged into the USB ports in cars that support Apple Play and Android - https://www.amazon.com/ASVEGEN-External-Player-Android-Silver/dp/B09JW1LYSN
First of all - yes both CDs and MP3 format digital files on a USB are both digital representations of music, and a CD can be burned to MP3 and stored on a computer or USB memory stick. However - and this is important - MP3 files are compressed, which means data is lost and the signals are in fact degraded from a CD format. The issue is that MP3 files are typically anywhere from 1/4 to 1/10 or less than the size of the same song on a CD. So all the people that are saying the CD sounds better, you are right, there is more data and signal there and you can hear the difference, just like you can hear the difference between a CD and the better sounding version of the same song on a vinyl record. Many people can not hear the difference however, so for a lot of the world there is effectively no difference.
Second - it seems people are having success with devices like this plugged into the USB ports in cars that support Apple Play and Android - https://www.amazon.com/ASVEGEN-External-Player-Android-Silver/dp/B09JW1LYSN
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