TRADED 2003 FOR 2019 EXPEDITION HAVING TROUBLE FINDING CD PLAYER.... HELP??

[JIMBEAMMACHINE]

Finally saved enuff money for a new 2019 Expedition, afta tradin in My 2003 Expedetion ... I even waited months after I purchased it. because of the whole covid chip shortage CRAP. jJst to pull off the lot in euphoria and notice no CD PLAYER!?!? Why have they taken what is Old Skool and traditional and replaced it with CARPLAY?? I mean... I get it.. but... why not both??

 

[99WhiteC5Coupe]

Finally saved enuff money for a new 2019 Expedition, afta tradin in My 2003 Expedetion ... I even waited months after I purchased it. because of the whole covid chip shortage CRAP. jJst to pull off the lot in euphoria and notice no CD PLAYER!?!? Why have they taken what is Old Skool and traditional and replaced it with CARPLAY?? I mean... I get it.. but... why not both??

I believe the CD player was present or optional in the 2018 models, but eliminated for the 2019 models.

 

[Yupster Dog]

Finally saved enuff money for a new 2019 Expedition, afta tradin in My 2003 Expedetion ... I even waited months after I purchased it. because of the whole covid chip shortage CRAP. jJst to pull off the lot in euphoria and notice no CD PLAYER!?!? Why have they taken what is Old Skool and traditional and replaced it with CARPLAY?? I mean... I get it.. but... why not both??

You can digitize your cd collection yourself and put it on a SD card or memory stick and have much easier access to your music without all the cd's all over the truck.

Congratulations on your new truck.

 

[JIMBEAMMACHINE]

Time does March on, but does anyone appreciate the old skool? or is eveeryone going to keep acting like Atari/ NIntendo, Scratching Vinyl records, and fast forward burning CD'S is ancient or something? there has got to be a aftermarket radio with android auto , carplay, and a disc player... or external cd playa or something. the one on amazon look sketchy lol.

 

[dlcorbett]

You can try to replace your interface with the Interface from the 2018s. The changes with the computer options can most likely be handled using forscan.

 

[GAINMOB]

Time does March on, but does anyone appreciate the old skool? or is eveeryone going to keep acting like Atari/ NIntendo, Scratching Vinyl records, and fast forward burning CD'S is ancient or something? there has got to be a aftermarket radio with android auto , carplay, and a disc player... or external cd playa or something. the one on amazon look sketchy lol.

ancient as ****...everything u buy now doesnt support those things anymore...dont stay stuck in the times...evolve to stay current while reminiscing about the 80/90s...this is the future every since they created mp3...no vehicle will have a cd player due to a lot of ppl not buying cd's anymore...streaming is what tapes and cd's were...they stopped installing cigarette lighters and ashtrays too...

 

[BIGRED03]

Correct my 2018 Platinum had a hard to notice cd player. Not one to be found in my 2021 Platinum. Missing it already Ford.

 

[purevw]

You can digitize your cd collection yourself and put it on a SD card or memory stick and have much easier access to your music without all the cd's all over the truck.

Congratulations on your new truck.

A problem I had was my vehicle refusing to play music "digitized" from ripping my CDs. My Expy apparently saw the files as illegal copies of copyrighted music. I tried several file formats. I replaced my head unit with Kenwood and the problem was gone. I would add that I could have just streamed with Bluetooth from my phone, but general music quality from a factory head unit and speakers in most vehicles is mediocre at best.

 

[tommyddsr]

That's ok, I can't find the 8 track tape player either

 

[JVinOlathe]

Maybe your truck does have the CD player but it is hidden as per this thread...

2019 Limited has CD player hidden?

Newbie here. Just bought a '19 Limited for my wife 2 weeks ago. Remove the front bezel to install autostopelimator and found what looks to be a CD player. Behind the white sticker there is a slot for where the disc would insert. This was a feature my wife wanted as she does lots of audio books...

www.expeditionforum.com

Also, you can just copy your CDs to a thumb drive and use the USB port to play them.

 

[Rezolution]

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...

Amazon.com

 

[tommyddsr]

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...

Amazon.com

Welcome to the 90's!!!!

 

[JExpedition07]

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]

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.

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.

 

[dlcorbett]

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]

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]

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.

Ok im not the only crazy one in thinking music from a cd sounds better

 

[ManUpOrShutUp]

Ok im not the only crazy one in thinking music from a cd sounds better

What part are you not understanding here? This isn't a complex topic.

 

[SyndicateZ]

What part are you not understanding here? This isn't a complex topic.

Im not making it complex. CD's just sound better to me

 

[JohnSC]

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