Originally Posted By: beanoil
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
Originally Posted By: skyactiv
Pretty much. You can rip your music into a MP3 file, put it on your phone and stream music VIA Bluetooth.
Yup, or put the files on a USB thumb drive or SD card. Most of these new car audio systems that no longer have a CD drive have a USB port or SD card slot instead to help accomplish that.
A 64GB USB thumb drive (or SD card) costs $15 and can hold hundreds of music albums in high quality.
Only if you consider MP3 "high quality" .
Most people can't tell a 320 kbps or VBR V0 MP3 from source CD material. And most of those that say they can, consistently fail the A/B blind comparison test. But if you can tell the difference, by all means stick with a lossless format.
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FLAC,or ALAC (lossless) files, and you won't get jack on a 64gig.
Doing quick math, you can fit about 134 hours of FLAC material on a 64 GB card, so that's still quite a bit, IMO. If you need more space, buy a larger card/drive - they're relatively inexpensive. A 256 GB drive is about $50-$60 currently.