No CD player in a 2018 S63? Really? Woe is me.
03-12-2018, 03:32 PM
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After 40 yrs of MB's I drive an Audi which has a single slot CD. I can load the CD into the slot---play it & IMPORT the CD into my hard drive & play it anytime. Does MB have a hard drive IMPORT feature? I have loaded my favorite CD's on to a thumb drive & IMPORTED to the hard drive,but I can add any CD in addition..
03-13-2018, 02:13 AM
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Best Buy announced that they will cease selling CDs as of July. See https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16...vinyl-cassette.
Also, Target is cutting back. This is leading to the death of CDs.
Also, Target is cutting back. This is leading to the death of CDs.
03-15-2018, 11:59 AM
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Best Buy announced that they will cease selling CDs as of July. See https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16...vinyl-cassette.
Also, Target is cutting back. This is leading to the death of CDs.
Also, Target is cutting back. This is leading to the death of CDs.
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03-15-2018, 06:27 PM
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03-16-2018, 06:17 PM
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I used JRiver. dBpoweramp is another program that can do this nicely.
With mobile storage so cheap, you could rip your CDs to m4A format (ALAC). This is lossless which retains somewhat better fidelity.
These programs are nice because they will take any file format and convert it to the file format you want. I'm pretty sure iTunes will do this too but I don't use it.
With mobile storage so cheap, you could rip your CDs to m4A format (ALAC). This is lossless which retains somewhat better fidelity.
These programs are nice because they will take any file format and convert it to the file format you want. I'm pretty sure iTunes will do this too but I don't use it.
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03-22-2018, 12:04 PM
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Hi Stever500..I literally just spoke to my mb parts team who reached out to MB corporate. my concern was that the glove compartment on the right side is not deep enough to store a cd player and the left side has the Air Fragrance which would have to be ripped out. He said that they are genuinely surprised how many people want a cd and are currently looking into where else they can mount it. His understanding (and they installed one so far) is that they basically rip out the old glove compartment...but a hole and retro fit it so BOTH cd and air fragrance would fit. PLEASE PLEASE let me know if you have it done or if you can verify that is what they did on your car....ALSO please post pics..I am very interested to see how it fits...on the 2019's the Air Fragrance is a stand alone option...I don't want to pay only to have it ripped out...but would take a cd player over the Air Fragrance anyday!! Good luck mate!
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03-22-2018, 01:09 PM
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No one can tell me this CD technology is a thing of the past. They still sell them in stores all over the place. Dang... No, I'm not going to spend the $805 that my MB dealer wants or $399 maybe from an aftermarket place to have a CD in the glove box. It's not worth it to me at all. I'll just suffer in silence and listen to my CD's... nowhere I guess. It's Sirius radio and FM in my car from here on out. I can use that $805 for something more substantial for sure! Like dinners out, a flight to Iceland, anything, but a CD in my ... glovebox. Really? Uh, yeah. That' ain't happening. I actually need the space in my glovebox for ... stuff.
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03-22-2018, 03:39 PM
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I'm relatively new to the forum, but this is EASILY the most entertaining post I've seen so far! 
But seriously, you would have to be a bit loopy to pay large dollars to have your car ripped up just to use CDs. I'd imagine you could get a middle school kid to rip a big box of one's CDs for a lot less than that. Figure 15 minutes of mindless work per CD, an ambitious person could do a 100 CDs in a couple of days. For a Millenial it still wouldn't take more than a couple weeks.
You'd still have enough left over to get a really great bottle of wine and listen to your favorite CD in darkness while you curse other unwanted contrivances like transistors, or more appropriately for this forum, run flat tires.
But seriously, you would have to be a bit loopy to pay large dollars to have your car ripped up just to use CDs. I'd imagine you could get a middle school kid to rip a big box of one's CDs for a lot less than that. Figure 15 minutes of mindless work per CD, an ambitious person could do a 100 CDs in a couple of days. For a Millenial it still wouldn't take more than a couple weeks.
You'd still have enough left over to get a really great bottle of wine and listen to your favorite CD in darkness while you curse other unwanted contrivances like transistors, or more appropriately for this forum, run flat tires.
03-22-2018, 05:20 PM
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I assume you all know there is this thing called I-Tunes that can ingest all of your CD's and store them in a digital format. Playback is as good using an Iphone or Ipod and you can display the album artwork as well. If you are concerned with bit rate or sound quality there are even players out there for that. Yes, you do lose the lyrics but if this is mission critical to your drive, you can bring the CD's along as well. CD players, like cassette and 8 track players are dead and disappearing. I would gladly give up the CD changer in my MY15 for the wireless charging dock, in fact I will swap with anyone who wants to do this.
03-22-2018, 05:39 PM
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Whoa... just... whoa. MB screwed us CD loving folks by taking out CD players about 5-10 years too early. I don't care what others on this board say about converting my CD's to another format. That ain't going to happen. I'm not interested in that at all. I don't care about others on this board that say it's cumbersome dealing with jewel cases and CD's. Not for this guy - I was and am happy with the lovely cover art on jewel cases and slipping them in and out of a case. Then you have the lyrics right there in the jewel case too. I LOVE that.
No one can tell me this CD technology is a thing of the past. They still sell them in stores all over the place. Dang... No, I'm not going to spend the $805 that my MB dealer wants or $399 maybe from an aftermarket place to have a CD in the glove box. It's not worth it to me at all. I'll just suffer in silence and listen to my CD's... nowhere I guess. It's Sirius radio and FM in my car from here on out. I can use that $805 for something more substantial for sure! Like dinners out, a flight to Iceland, anything, but a CD in my ... glovebox. Really? Uh, yeah. That' ain't happening. I actually need the space in my glovebox for ... stuff.
No one can tell me this CD technology is a thing of the past. They still sell them in stores all over the place. Dang... No, I'm not going to spend the $805 that my MB dealer wants or $399 maybe from an aftermarket place to have a CD in the glove box. It's not worth it to me at all. I'll just suffer in silence and listen to my CD's... nowhere I guess. It's Sirius radio and FM in my car from here on out. I can use that $805 for something more substantial for sure! Like dinners out, a flight to Iceland, anything, but a CD in my ... glovebox. Really? Uh, yeah. That' ain't happening. I actually need the space in my glovebox for ... stuff.
03-22-2018, 05:54 PM
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I assume you all know there is this thing called I-Tunes that can ingest all of your CD's and store them in a digital format. Playback is as good using an Iphone or Ipod and you can display the album artwork as well. If you are concerned with bit rate or sound quality there are even players out there for that. Yes, you do lose the lyrics but if this is mission critical to your drive, you can bring the CD's along as well. CD players, like cassette and 8 track players are dead and disappearing. I would gladly give up the CD changer in my MY15 for the wireless charging dock, in fact I will swap with anyone who wants to do this.
03-22-2018, 06:05 PM
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From USA today:
M-B says the S-Class buyer averages 62 years old, is almost certainly a man (83% of buyers), married (87%), has a college degree (81%) and enjoys a median income of $324,000.
Buyers of the AMG, M-B likes to say — with only slight exaggeration — are half as old and twice as rich: 40s and $500,000 to $600,000 yearly income.
So, the average buyer is older, which would most def mean they would still prefer cd's. The above was info Mercedes published and gave to USA Today. So, seems again, they are drinking too much beer. It should be in there standard, considering Mercedes own research of the buyers of their S class.
M-B says the S-Class buyer averages 62 years old, is almost certainly a man (83% of buyers), married (87%), has a college degree (81%) and enjoys a median income of $324,000.
Buyers of the AMG, M-B likes to say — with only slight exaggeration — are half as old and twice as rich: 40s and $500,000 to $600,000 yearly income.
So, the average buyer is older, which would most def mean they would still prefer cd's. The above was info Mercedes published and gave to USA Today. So, seems again, they are drinking too much beer. It should be in there standard, considering Mercedes own research of the buyers of their S class.
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From USA today:M-B says the S-Class buyer averages 62 years old, is almost certainly a man (83% of buyers), married (87%), has a college degree (81%) and enjoys a median income of $324,000. Buyers of the AMG, M-B likes to say — with only slight exaggeration — are half as old and twice as rich: 40s and $500,000 to $600,000 yearly income.
03-22-2018, 10:51 PM
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I assume you all know there is this thing called I-Tunes that can ingest all of your CD's and store them in a digital format. Playback is as good using an Iphone or Ipod and you can display the album artwork as well. If you are concerned with bit rate or sound quality there are even players out there for that. Yes, you do lose the lyrics but if this is mission critical to your drive, you can bring the CD's along as well. CD players, like cassette and 8 track players are dead and disappearing. I would gladly give up the CD changer in my MY15 for the wireless charging dock, in fact I will swap with anyone who wants to do this.
03-23-2018, 05:03 AM
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BeanTrader,
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
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03-23-2018, 09:27 AM
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BeanTrader,
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
03-23-2018, 11:06 AM
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Here's another option: http://www.dmp3digital.com/services-pricing/. About a buck a CD.
I'm not vouching for this particular place, and you might be able to get lower prices if you shop. But still...
Here's another option: http://www.dmp3digital.com/services-pricing/. About a buck a CD.
I'm not vouching for this particular place, and you might be able to get lower prices if you shop. But still...
03-23-2018, 03:21 PM
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BeanTrader,
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
Here is a tutorial: https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-copy...itunes-2438865
If you Google "how to rip a CD in iTunes" you'll get other instructions that might be more helpful. If your only intention is to use the music in the car or on your phone, I'd suggest you select "Apple Lossless" (ALAC) encoder. That's a good balance between size and sound quality. I usually rip mine to AIFF, which is a higher quality level, because that's how I listen to music on my home stereo. Downside is that it isn't accepted by MB COMAND and is a bit larger. That said, it is relatively easy to convert a higher resolution format to a lower, format (like mp3). The converse is not true, once the CD is converted to a lower resolution format, you can't ever get that resolution back by converting to a higher format. The mp3 format is small and universally used, but has a lower resolution.
Once the ripping is done all the files will be stored in a directory on your computer. That location is determined in iTunes (look under iTunes, 'Preferences', "Advanced". If you are downloading music from Apple iTunes all your other music is probably there as well. Moving all the music to something like an SD card is as simple as dragging all the files from the iTunes file location to the SD card.
Thank you SO much. This is very helpful information. I had no idea idea about how this is done. I will look at the info provided in the link and go from there.
After reading the tutorial I have one major question. Where is the CD inserted in order to copy it? Is it on a computer which has a CD player? If so, I have the latest version of the MacBook Pro which does not have a CD player on it. What's the solution?
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03-23-2018, 07:30 PM
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I bought the Apple USB Superdrive. It plugs into your USB port. Any decent quality USB drive will work. Just scanning through Amazon there are a number of good looking drives for ~$30. Even if you have an old computer with a CD drive you can use that.
I bought the Apple USB Superdrive. It plugs into your USB port. Any decent quality USB drive will work. Just scanning through Amazon there are a number of good looking drives for ~$30. Even if you have an old computer with a CD drive you can use that.
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