Many cars on the market are doing away with CD players. Many people opt to stream music from a service such as Pandora. You also have the option of XM radio and, of course, MP3 files on a thumb drive, which is what this is about.
You will notice that your Kia has a USB port in the front of the center console. This is a trickle charge for your phone, but also serves as a USB Data port for MP3 files on a thumb (Flash) Drive.
Get your favorite CDs and load them to your computer. In Windows they will save in Media Player as a WAV file. These can not be played through your system. You must first convert them to an MP3 format. There are several conversion programs out there. Just google WAV to MP3. After that, just move the MP3 file to the flash drive (drag and drop) and there ya go. You can put hundreds of songs on a 8 or 16 Gigabyte flash. They are small, and portable. Play your MP3 files by putting the flash drive in the USB port in your car and then go to the MEDIA setting and it will pull the music up.
One would still have to burn your CD's to the hard drive of your computer then transfer to thumb drives. I would rather plug in the CD. Old school I know, but much easier.
ReplyDeleteThanks Paul. I know what you mean. I still have a stack of Cassettes and 8 Tracks. Lol
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