OEM Dash CD Player Stopped

[1st_xmazda5]

I am guessing that my OEM CD player has finally given up the ghost. When I first bought the car 2 months ago, older compact discs would work, and new CDs would not play. The player would not spit out the disc it would just keep spinning inside the player with nothing playing. Yesterday, I had a disc in the player that was working and when I went out to the car the disc was sticking out of the player. I tried to push the disc back in but it would not take it in. I did not want to keep pushing it all the way in because I did not want to lose the disc inside. Thoughts?

 

[22323]

Sorry for the useless response but saw an opportunity to publicly lament the loss of CD players in modern cars. No interested in downloading for the work around. Would prefer to just complain about it. Thank goodness for sat radio and the Bose stereo.

 

[wlong01]

If your Mazda5 has a USB port just copy the CD's to a thumb drive and be done with the CD player.

 

[Mazdiod2]

I am guessing that my OEM CD player has finally given up the ghost. When I first bought the car 2 months ago, older compact discs would work, and new CDs would not play. The player would not spit out the disc it would just keep spinning inside the player with nothing playing. Yesterday, I had a disc in the player that was working and when I went out to the car the disc was sticking out of the player. I tried to push the disc back in but it would not take it in. I did not want to keep pushing it all the way in because I did not want to lose the disc inside. Thoughts?

I wonder if there are places that could service it, maybe clean dust out of sensors, a little lube on the rails. I had a belt replaced in a CD player and it was only $25.

 

[22323]

If your Mazda5 has a USB port just copy the CD's to a thumb drive and be done with the CD player.

It does, but I won't. :-O

 

[kendel7]

Sorry for the useless response but saw an opportunity to publicly lament the loss of CD players in modern cars. No interested in downloading for the work around. Would prefer to just complain about it. Thank goodness for sat radio and the Bose stereo.

I purchased my '16 CX-5 specifically for the CD player (I believe '16 was the last year for factory-installed players). There are some CD's I listen to that will NEVER be available on sat!

 

[wlong01]

It does, but I won't. :-O

Nothing like hijacking the thread.

 

[1st_xmazda5]

I purchased my '16 CX-5 specifically for the CD player (I believe '16 was the last year for factory-installed players). There are some CD's I listen to that will NEVER be available on sat!

I am in my early 40s and I have two of the large CD CaseLogic folders filled with music that I would like to listen too via my CD player. I see the appeal of downloading music but subscribing to Spotify / Pandora / Sirius/XM costs money for no advertising. I long for the days when we did not have to be blitzed by advertising when listening to our favorite bands / music.

 

[wlong01]

I am in my early 40s and I have two of the large CD CaseLogic folders filled with music that I would like to listen too via my CD player. I see the appeal of downloading music but subscribing to Spotify / Pandora / Sirius/XM costs money for no advertising. I long for the days when we did not have to be blitzed by advertising when listening to our favorite bands / music.

If you have a computer it's easy to download the CD's to a thumb drive. I have 80 of my favorite CD's on one thumb drive with gigabytes of storage still left. It's so easy to just bring up the directory, select a cd and listen or select certain tracks.