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.

 

[Silentnoise713]

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.

You either have to pay for your music or you get ads on free air radio. How were you able to listen to your favorite band/music without ads?

Old habits are hard to die but the information age is waiting for you. Even the free version of Spotify allows you to create a personal playlist and there's really minimal ads. You can search for songs through peer-to-peer or download, via free sites, from youtube. The only case for keeping CDs are if you have some artist that is uber rare/hard to find, or you listen at home/hi-fi headphones where the uncompressed/lossless .wav file really matters, less so in a buzzy car and you better have some quality amp/speaker to back that case. BTW, you can rip your CD to .wav (original sound file) on a USB stick but I'm not sure if the OEM unit can playback this file type. It also takes a lot more space but storage is cheap. IMHO, USB playback is best suited with a full display screen, ideally touch screen.

If you want to keep the tactile feel, visit the local junkyard or post a WTB here from those who upgraded their radio; most people just junk the OEM unit since it only collects dust -honestly not worth the shipment cost or fixing.. You can also pick up a portable CD player and connect it using the aux port. I heard there's a new trend in portable cassettes and CD players making a comeback! This would be the easiest and cheapest option.

I *had a huge collection (Columbia House anyone ) and thought about getting an old skool Sony 3-400 disc mega drive and connect it to a wifi music steamer (they even make these with preamps and vacuum tubes! but can get very expensive) and wifi IR blaster to mimic the remote. You won't see what disc or track is playing but can play everything. I didn't even bother ripping most discs b/c the internet has everything.

 

[Mazdiod2]

My Mazda radio can play MP3 encoded CDs, which are capable of holding over a dozen albums. Kind of like a mix tape that can last all day.

 

[dlarkin_dc]

Some stock head units with USB can handle lossless 48bit 24kHz files. Does anyone know the USB files formats in the Mazda 5 with USB for audio?