Playing CD's in New 4Runners

Hello Rick

The device you got off Amazon is typically used for the newer laptops or pcs that dont have a burner.

You are copying the music from your cd to the little flash drive.

Watch this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRl74Et0-GY

Also format as FAT32 and max 250 songs max per folder !

 

Burned discs aren't exactly the longest term of storage. See all of the people who had their wedding videos on DVD who can't watch those DVDs anymore because the DVDs broke down in less than 10 years. I have some old burned CDs that don't work anymore, and I have a few bootleg movie blu rays that were burned that don't work well anymore either.

I don't know if Taiyo Yuden makes BDR discs, but I remember they made the best CDR discs. It was what you wanted if you wanted to go longer term. I don't know how well they held up in the grand scheme of things, though.

External hard drives are still the best option, and you really should be keeping two of them, one as a backup.

 

What about original cds? They dont break down seeing I have thousands of Cds from the 90's .. ORIGINAL CD's . They work ABsoulutley right away, no skips, no stalling yet (fingers crossed). With my portable CARPLAY CD player. Will the ORIGINAL CD's break down in a few years?? Or??? Will I still be able to use them with my portable CARPLAY CD Player?

 

I wouldn't expect the Carplay CD player to break your CDs, but it's expensive and will hog your Carplay functionality if it works like I think it does. Just get a cheap knockoff Discman and an FM transmitter. For far less than 100 bucks you get CD play and retain full functionality of everything. I often use Android Auto with my knockoff Discman and FM transmitter. Zero functionality gets sacrificed.

I'm not getting kickbacks or anything. I just don't want people to spend big bucks on something that won't work as well as what I've put together in my 4Runner.

 

If there is an Aux Jack use headphone jack to the aux !!

 

Yes, your CD player won't work directly in the T4R. But, if you can "rip" the music to your computer and then put it on flash drive that will plug into the USB port and work in the T4R.

For Moon Landing:

 

2020+ no longer has the aux jack, sadly.

 

Those were the days.........sweet memories Roy O, Elvis the pelvis, Patsy Cline, Brenda Lee, Paul Anka, Ella, Tennessee Ernie Ford and so many more!

 

Got this for my wife's Kia. While not extremely inexpensive ($100 +/-), it works great to play cds through her FM radio:

$81 HOTT CD903TF Portable CD Player for Car with Bluetooth FM Transmitter，Rechargeable Touch Button Backlight Display Black

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B088NT8GSD?ie=UTF8

 

I am not sure if you can put a new double din head unit in the 2021.

 

Cool, the Hott ones are back in stock. That might be an even better option than what I got. More compact.

 

You and I are probably the only ones that recognize that driver.

 

Totally understand, my guy. I appreciate you giving options for us broke folks out here, tryna get by. Android Auto never used it, better than CarPlay??? what if this company made an android auto CD player would put work better\?? CD player probably could process with taking away zero functionality from the android features?? what do you think?

 

I wouldn't be able to plug in my phone to use Android Auto while using the Android Auto CD player, so I don't think it would work for me.

 

What about cassettes? I have a GPX Walkman?

 

I think part of Android Auto, even wired, utilizes Bluetooth, probably for audio. I've had my Bluetooth turned off on my phone before hooking up my phone, and Bluetooth is always forced on. That's why I decided to go with the FM transmitter with the CD player instead of Bluetooth.

 

I C...well turns out.. dat Smart CD playa we been talkin bout actually has phone casting faeture on it, and it gives ure vehicle wireless CarPlay.. iim thinkin...Dats probably why the cost is so high on those cd playas... i mean wireless carplay cost like 100$ buks on ebay 4 one of dem donglle converters.... and the phone castin just got popular n they sell them things like 100$ too... and you get the cd playa too on top of it. u think worth it or nah?? if it werks i could watch football in my car in da driveway from my phone? unless you invented sommin betta>>??

 

I'd be interested in seeing a video of the phone casting, but it still seems like a lot of money for a little bit of convenience versus the alternatives using an FM transmitter. I'm not too terribly interested in watching any TV on the head unit screen either.

I've given thought to playing Doom on the head unit screen just to say I did, but I'll have to find out what the backup camera video signal is. If it's NTSC then great. I can feed my hacked PSP into that input. For as HD as the screen is, the backup camera looks awfully standard definition.

 

This may have been posted already, but if you already have a portable cd player (or ipod, cassette player, whatever) this FM transmitter works great and is dirt cheap -

JETech Wireless FM Transmitter Radio Car Kit for Smart Phones Bundle with 3.5mm Audio Plug and Car Charger, Black

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00URUJWPW?ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details

 

I’ll trade you for my 2013. The CD player has never been used.