How do you listen to music in the car?

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My new car isn't going to have a CD player or even a aux/ headphone type socket.
There are some mini usb sockets and that's it.

Mine has a cd player in the glove box but I have never worked it out. I link my phone on Car App (or something) and listen to Spotify. But saying that I like the radio so mainly just put that in.

Radio or connect my phone via Bluetooth

Same here. I can either plug my iPhone in using the usb or use Bluetooth. I use Amazon and Apple music. But most of the time I listen to the radio.

Does it have Bluetooth? We only have aux in the glove box, so we have a Bluetooth splitter plugged into that then use Spotify on our phones and Bluetooth it.

If you could plug your phone into the USB inputs to play music, you could get a Bluetooth adaptor and leave that plugged in, then just play via Bluetooth

If you can't use Bluetooth or usb or anything you can (or could years ago) get a radio adapter for your phone so it broadcasts what you're listening to at X frequency and then you tune your car radio into that. Before that I had a tape to aux converter that went into the cassette slot.

(This time I was insistent my car had aux or Bluetooth !)

But also, if it doesn't even have a CD slot, are you sure it doesn't have Bluetooth built in?

I was shocked when I got my car 5 years ago and it didn't have a CD player. I didn't realise they were that archaic!

But yes, I'll either listen to the radio, or bluetooth it. If your car doesn't have a CD player or aux, it must have bluetooth.

It's a 2011 plate. Radio and occasionally CD.

No Bluetooth and it doesn't seem to connect to phones.

My phone links via Bluetooth so I listen to my music that way, or have the radio on.

Via Bluetooth and listen to Spotify

Bluetooth now we have a car that does it. Last car we had a USB stick which we put all the car music on. It could read that, you could select the folder.

So for example we had a folder for relaxing music, a folder for pop music, a folder for certain artists. When we did a long trip we'd all put music into a big road trip folder :o

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Via Bluetooth and listen to Spotify

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Or the radio

Spotify via Bluetooth or radio.

Radio or Spotify via phone

My car is OLD and it doesn't have a cd player!

I never listen to music through my phone, but Dd uses Bluetooth in the car we have now, so I think that would work. I could load some mp3s on an old phone maybe.
Hmm maybe I could get an adapter for the mini usb then I can plug my mp3 player in?
I sound like such a dinosaur, but really it's just music that I like to listen to properly, I can't stand the radio especially if i am driving. Not keen on paying for spotify when they don't have loads of stuff I like and have already paid for.

But if you have CDs you can rip the music and load them onto your phone as mp3s and play them through whatever app suits you best.

I think it's probably fair to say we aren't going to go back round to CDs as a standard portable music option so it's probably a worthwhile job at least for your favourites.

In my last car we put music onto a usb and plugged that in - different music in different folders.

Apple car play and Spotify. I should really cancel this as I have free Apple Music with my phone contract.

Sorry, just realised you have an MP3 player - couldn't you copy the music from that onto your phone if the car has Bluetooth?

You can probably get a Bluetooth adapter for your MP3 player. That's probably the easiest thing to do, if you don't want to copy your music onto your current phone.

Try just plugging your MP3 player in. If that doesn't work, it needs to be a plain old USB stick with the music files loaded onto it. It will probably say in the car's manual what formats it supports.

Maybe it'll work with just a memory stick? I will still need an adapter, as it has about 5 mini usbs, but no normal usbs . Will need that anyway to charge stuff.
It's a nice car, but I wouldn't choose it normally, company car with no other options. Talk about a third world problems!

Oh sorry, totally missed the mini USB part! That does sound tricky. Maybe the car's manual explains what you're supposed to do?