Compounded by my lateness to the smartphone world, I feel hopelessly out of touch, but I have finally decided to start ripping a lot of my fairly hefty CD collection in hopes of playing them in my car, but many things I once thought true have mutated over time:
- Headphone jacks disappearing from phones
- iPhones in general, it seems like a lot of work just to get some random file onto the damned thing
- Head units don't recognize .m3u playlists (what?!)
Overall, it seems the happy path is just to subscribe to some music service and like whatever it is they have on ("played at a reasonable volume," as the Pictures for Sad Children bit goes). However, I already have the radio for the "shut up and like what we feed you" option.
For most phones it just got merged into the USB C port. It's the same thing, but with a different connector except USB C also supports digital audio output too instead of just analog.
- Headphone jacks disappearing from phones
- iPhones in general, it seems like a lot of work just to get some random file onto the damned thing
- Head units don't recognize .m3u playlists (what?!)
Overall, it seems the happy path is just to subscribe to some music service and like whatever it is they have on ("played at a reasonable volume," as the Pictures for Sad Children bit goes). However, I already have the radio for the "shut up and like what we feed you" option.
We're swimming upstream a bit here, liking CDs.