I'm having a new car radio installed in my Citroën C4 this week. The old radio included a CD player, but I don't ever play CDs any more. If anybody wants any music CDs, I have a box of about 500 of them in a closet upstairs. I don't know what to do with them. About half of them are American or British, and the others are French. When we got iTunes for Windows years ago, I decided to convert all the songs that we had on CDs to MP3 format and put them all on a hard disks. Here's a link to a 2012 post about that process. We've never looked back.
Don't worry, I have copies of all that music on several different hard disks and on several different computers, so I don't worry too much about losing anything if a disk or a computer crashes. The radio I'm having installed in the Citroën will play songs that I copy to SD cards or micro SD cards. It will also connect to BlueTooth devices — tablets or smart phones. I really enjoy playing music in the car when I'm out running errands.
In San Francisco, where for a few years I had a 100-mile commute to work and back, I played a lot of French music when I was on the road mornings and evenings. Now I find I play a lot more American music. I hear French all the time, so it's nice to hear songs in English whenever I get a chance. I have so many memories attached to both French and English music. I'm completely out of touch with the current music scenes in the U.S. and in France, but that doesn't matter to me any more.
P.S. Sorry, no pictures today.
I should have a new radio installed in the VW, the CD player stopped working a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteThe radio I bought (2 of them, actually, one for each car), cost me about 30 euros each. Then I had my mechanic install them for me (for a fee of course). I went for a 30-minute drive in the Citroën yesterday and the new radio works great. I listened to 15 or 20 1970s Linda Ronstadt songs.
DeleteThe process of converting all that music to cards is over my head lol. But it will be nice to have wide selection of music in your voiture.
ReplyDeleteIt was pretty easy to put the audio files into iTunes. They are imported as *.mp3 files.
DeleteMost of my friends try to keep their cars that have a CD player! I'm happy that my car has one, too. The Computers don't come with players anymore, mine is 2 years old and I tried but none were available. Lucky for you that with your wizardry you have options for listening to your own choices. I have my radio set on NPR National Public Radio so I can hear the news when I am out and about. My destinations are so close I would rarely even finish one song before I arrive at my destination. Wish I had an answer for your where to send your CDS. Maybe the Lycees would have students who would love to get them?
ReplyDeleteNot sure what you mean when you say computers don't come with players. I use iTunes for Windows at home, and Windows has its own Media Player app for playing audio and video files. Did you look at what's available. Have you looked at offerings at the Microsoft Store?
DeleteApple sells a simple plug in DC/DVD player recorder.
DeleteKen - I don't know how to get my cd music off the CD and onto an audio file/ Didn't even know that was possible. I will ask my friends for help. Thanks for the idea. Wish you were a neighbor!
DeleteTravel - Another option! Thanks!
DeleteI am sure that libraries would love your old cds. Great practice for kids (and adults) to learn English!
ReplyDeleteI hadn't thought about that possibility. I'll have to go down to the village library and talk to the people in charge about it. I know they let members check out videos, or at least they used to.
DeleteYes, C in California, that was my thought for the high school kids - when I last traveled on trains in France, several people I talked to were eager to buy American CD's but they were too expensive - 1997 - close to $30USA.
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