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Curmudgeons' Corner 6 - Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we diet 🍵

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    OH collected our new car yesterday.  The good news is that it does have a CD player so I don't need to transfer all my CDs to a stick.  The grump is that the CD player is cleverly located in the glove box so inaccessible whilst driving and I only use it on long drives on motorways to see or fetch Possum who lives 800kms away.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    One of my previous cars had a 5 CD multi-player and I really miss that.  One CD playing over and over is no fun after a few hours driving.  My new car does have connection for MP3 player so I have that constantly plugged in now.  It's still a pain as it's obviously not easy swapping to totally different music.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I guess inaccessibility whilst driving is intentional, @Obelixx...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No idea.  Haven't even sat in it yet.  Haven't got an MP3 player.  Took me ages to switch from LPs to CDs.........
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm such a grown up. The highlights of my day were a visit to the garden centre and getting a really good deal on washing powder. :#  I didn't even buy anything at the garden centre...
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I have all my music 'ripped' and on a central server - so I bought an FM transmitter and put some random tracks on a USB for the car. That works well. My car is old - and although it has a CD player, the transmitter has USB, card and line in connection (some transmitters have Bluetooth as well) - so is quite versatile and can also then play music from a phone or whatever.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My daughter had a car, many years ago you put 5 cd’s on at a time and the thing was located in the boot, no chance of changing it whilst driving.  The controls all on the gear stick. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    A 5 CD deck would get me to Belgium very happily @Lyn.   And back again.   With a normal CD player I'd just line up what I wanted to hear so it was easy to change them.   Why does technology have to make things more complicated?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    You need an MP3 player.
    I have about 20000 songs on mine, enough to get me through most journeys.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Minidisc was the peak of in car entertainment. All the benefits of tapes and CDs without risk of scratching and much easier to store. MP3 is great in some respects but a nightmare to select specific songs or albums while driving. I do love it for audiobooks though. I guess voice activation is the way forward with that.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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