Have CD's become the new 8 Tracks?

I still have a few 8 tracks (no player), so bite me old man. :)

I haven’t heard of 8 tracks in cars. Ford has been fitting cassette players and CD players in its cars for years and they have been putting a jack point for iplayers in the glove compartments of certain models in the UK for at least 4 years. I hadn’t heard of USB connections but looking at the latest Ford brochures I see they are now available. I don’t think CDs will last much longer, in or out of cars.

I moved in September of 2010. The box that has my 500+ CD’s has not been unboxed since then. Now it all sits in iTunes and I get music digitally while Mother Earth rejoices.

When I have a long drive, I keep a box of about 15 CDs behind me, so I can play music I like, rather than face long stretches of California roads with only Country and Western, and Spanish Language music.
I suppose I could have also asked if anyone actually listens to their 8 tracks. Last person I know who did that was the Dude.

Yes. I only buy CDs (blank ones) so that I can make them for listening to in my car. I don’t buy CDs from artists anymore. I’m excited for the demise of the CD.

I wonder where my big box of vinyl LPs fits in this discussion?

@wilma Hey, how about the old crank up players?

@wilma The needle would skip on the record whenever I drove over a bump.

I know what an 8-track player is.

I do not own an IPod.

Leave the CDs alone in vehicles for traveling. It’s good, cheap entertainment.

I always hated CDs and will be glad to see them go. I never understood why we did not put them in a protective case like we did with floppy disks, had they done that I would perhaps of liked them more.

But yea, I carry a little netbook now for all my music needs, 400gb of storage, possibility of connecting two external 3TB drives if needed.

I recently ripped all my CD’s to my pc and then took them to Goodwill (about 350 CD’s). I hadn’t touched them in years, so didn’t make sense to keep them. Once I get a car with mp3, I will have no need for CD’s.

I dunno, I work at a record store, and we sell an awful lot of cd’s- however I guess if everyone rips them onto their computers- and transfers them to an ipod/iphone etc…...

I use my ipod, and also cd’s in my vehicle, however I also sometimes listen to cassettes haha. Theyre only 25 cents at my job-just last week I got on e with a bunch of old school hiphop : NWA, public enemy etcetc haha,