Q70 owners, audio question. What does your CD player do?

[EdBwoy]

Here are 2 rather silly features or mis-features of the M CD player system:

1. It doesn't have a pause feature.
At best, you turn the radio off and back on to resume playing.
This also means, when a Bluetooth call comes in, the tracks just keep playing.

2. You can't preview track lists.
Turn the knob and you are pretty much committed to what you land on. It would be nice to be able to scroll just to see, then maybe push the "ENTER" button to actually pick the song you desire to play.

That is how it has worked in my 06, 08 and 11, unless I missed something; and I am curious. Have these features changed for the newer cars or does the CD player behave the same way?

[Ilya]

Never used mine lol. I'll have to try.

[EdBwoy]

It seems I'm the only guy that uses CDs in 2017, lol.
But with my old galaxy s4, between GPS, calls and streaming music, the phone overheats pretty fast and also drains the battery.
I resort to CDs for long trips.

[Larz]

It's a shame that they stopped installing the flash drive in the newer models. I have several flash drives - each with a different genre of music. Each drive holds tons of tracs and the car reads it instantly. No search delays, fast scrolling with the NAV screen, and the screen shows the trac info.
The 8gb drive seems to perform best with the car and has enough space to hold between 1,500 and 2,000 MP3 files (assuming 4-5mb each). Music saved with digital quality presumably forever, on a card the size of a flat book of matches. No need to tie up your phone, no need to plug or link anything to your car.

[pedsemdoc]

No need to tie up your phone, no need to plug or link anything to your car.

That's why I use my old iPhone 6 64GB hooked as an iPod and an app that let's you swipe on the screen to go forward/back tracks and adjust volume up/down

[Ilya]

I use an iPod although lately I've been using BT and Spotify. I received my new Pixel 2 XL a few days ago and just like my Pixel XL, no issues with BT other than an occasional pause every couple of car rides but you just hit play again and off you go.

I don't even have an audio CD's to test my drive lol.

[mrnix]

I sold/installed car stereos for several years, so I've messed around with my fair share of them, both aftermarket and factory. The only one I recall that had a CD pause function was a few limited Kenwood ones. I have never seen an OEM CD player with a pause feature. I have a book of CDs in my car, but it's a rare occasion I'm not listening to XM, with the occasional phone bluetooth music, or the built-in mp3 music box - typically for when my son makes a special request.

[EdBwoy]

Thanks mrnix. I suppose sometimes we get spoiled. I drove a Jaguar and you could pause CDs by pushing the CD or Changer button depending on your source (in dash vs trunk cassette). It also had a Pause/Play button on the touchscreen.
I can't remember who made the headunit, but the base model speakers were labelled Alpine. Infiniti/Nissan/Clarion could learn a few things from that car about good sound quality on a simple budget system.


In all honesty, I probably wouldn't remember how the other OEM systems were because prior to these more complicated or integrated cars, I almost immediately swapped out the OEM head units whenever I acquired a different car. I just owned the Jag for a really long time; and again, short of spending half the bluebook value on an audio upgrade, I made a lot of CDs for road trips.

Times really have changed. Just like the dinosaurs, the days of an under 200-Dollar audio upgrade are gone!
($70 Kenwood player, $15 Scosche or Metra wiring harness, $20 Dollar trim/bracket fascia, $30 PAC/SWI interface for the steering wheel buttons + the subwoofer and amp wiring that followed me around with every car change)