hi all I Picked up my new rapid sport last Tuesday. Although the brochure shows (CD slot) July 2015 brochure there is no CD player on the new 1.6 tai 115. There is a unit with SD slot in the glove compartment though.

Seems Skoda is moving away from CD.

Kind regards mike

The CD is dead. Soon it'll join the vinyl, the cassete and the floppy disk in their 'nostalgia fellowship'.

hi all I Picked up my new rapid sport last Tuesday. Although the brochure shows (CD slot) July 2015 brochure there is no CD player on the new 1.6 tai 115. There is a unit with SD slot in the glove compartment though.

Seems Skoda is moving away from CD.

Kind regards mike

I thought the CD player was also in the glovebox, along with the SD slot?

Chris

You got a diesel Rapid Sport?

 

Is that a new model?

the same on my new Toledo.With the help of Chris Green I have managed to copy all my CDs onto an SD card which plays brilliantly in the car

You got a diesel Rapid Sport?

 

Is that a new model?

 

Will be the Spaceback SE Sport thingy i guess? That comes with a diesel :-)

My Rapid a Jan 2015 has the CD slot on the stereo and the aux under it.

My Toledo too - we're both "so last year"

The CD is dead. Soon it'll join the vinyl, the cassete and the floppy disk in their 'nostalgia fellowship'.

The CD is not dead.  Many people (particularly of advancing age!) have dozens, if not hundreds, of CDs.  I want to play mine in the car. I don't want the chore of copying to SD cards or some other device (with the resulting loss of sound quality) just to accommodate the manufacturers' cost cutting.

 

In 2014 the number of music CDs sold in the UK was 55.7 million - hardly a dead format..

philbes I was of the same mind as you until ,out of practicality (CD player now in Glovebox),I copied my CD collection (50+) onto to an SD card in 2 days.The SD card of 32Gb cost £9 delivered  from ebay.I must say I have not perceived any loss of quality in their reproduction in the car.Perhaps this is because as you get older you gradually lose the ability to hear high frequencies.

The CD is not dead.  Many people (particularly of advancing age!) have dozens, if not hundreds, of CDs.  I want to play mine in the car. I don't want the chore of copying to SD cards or some other device (with the resulting loss of sound quality) just to accommodate the manufacturers' cost cutting.

 

In 2014 the number of music CDs sold in the UK was 55.7 million - hardly a dead format..

 

I have hundreds of CD's and haven't played one for years - they have all been copied onto my PC at home. which made putting it all onto SD cards a very quick job.

 

I particularly can't stand CD's rattling about in the car - so their use to me is now zero.

My car has a 6-disc CD-player and so I don't have the boxes (rattling around) in the car.  I already own SD cards and so could copy my CDs to that medium but why should I be forced to do so by the car manufacturers' cost cutting? 

 

As I said in a previous post, "In 2014 the number of music CDs sold in the UK was 55.7 million - hardly a dead format", and there must be 100s of millions of CDs owned by people who are now being denied the chance to play them in their new car.  Not every one (age dependant?) is welded to their phones!

My car has a 6-disc CD-player and so I don't have the boxes (rattling around) in the car.  I already own SD cards and so could copy my CDs to that medium but why should I be forced to do so by the car manufacturers' cost cutting? 

 

As I said in a previous post, "In 2014 the number of music CDs sold in the UK was 55.7 million - hardly a dead format", and there must be 100s of millions of CDs owned by people who are now being denied the chance to play them in their new car.  Not every one (age dependant?) is welded to their phones!

I don't disagree entirely with this sentiment, however you haven't been averse to progress in the past. If you're old enough to be cummugenly about transferring 100s of CDs to MP3 format, you probably once owned many casette tapes. When cars came fitted with CD players instead of casette decks as standard in the late 90s/early noughties you appear to have happily started buying CDs and playing them in your car.

 

Okay, cheap shot and lots of assumptions there. I guess what I'm saying is things progress. Casettes gave way to CDs probably because of market forces - buyers wanted the higher-quality playback of CDs in their car and the perceived technological advance, so manufactureres had to oblige to maintain sales. Now there is a combination of market forces (people have wanted to play their MP3s in cars for a while now, hence strong sales of After market head units with this feature) as well as (potentially) cost-cutting although this is limited, CD players are dropped in favour of large touch-screen interfaces which again, market forces are driving manufacturers to fit because this is what buyers want. There's barely a fag paper between different manufacturers' offerings in terms of the actual car, the level of on-board tech is often the USP in many market segments these days.

I have hundreds of CD's and haven't played one for years - they have all been copied onto my PC at home. which made putting it all onto SD cards a very quick job.

 

I particularly can't stand CD's rattling about in the car - so their use to me is now zero.

I concur - I own hundreds of discs - can't stand having them rattle around in the car, so I've ripped moved of them to MP3 for use via my iPhone and iPod. Even my mum - who is nearly 70 - has done the same to eliminate having tonnes of discs in the car (and boy do they rattle in the Fabia). We bought her an iPod mini precisely for this purpose.

Maybe not a dead format - but definitely a dying one on its last legs.

Times change.  I sold my Vinyl about the same time as I offloaded my ZX spectrum. The (much loved and 30 year old) cassette collection went around the time the Amiga went to carboot and the tape walkmans got cleared out.  CD's and windows XP have now left the building for me.  Now I like DAB, downloads and streaming.

Edited 7 October, 201510 yr by camelspyyder

Times change.  I sold my Vinyl about the same time as I offloaded my ZX spectrum. The (much loved and 30 year old) cassette collection went around the time the Amiga went to carboot and the tape walkmans got cleared out.  CD's and windows XP have now left the building for me.  Now I like DAB, downloads and streaming.

Are you like me, regretting selling that vinyl and spectrum now? They're worth a fortune these days!

 

I'm not exagerating here - a mate of mine recently sold a (fairly extensive I might add) collection of Sega Megadrive games and was able to put a deposit on a 3-bed semi!

I want to play mine in the car. I don't want the chore of copying to SD cards or some other device (with the resulting loss of sound quality) just to accommodate the manufacturers' cost cutting.

I consider myself an audiophile, albeit very moderate one, so I am also concerned about sound quality. However I believe that inside a noisy car and casually listening to music, SQ is practically indistinguishable in any properly encoded audio track of 192 Kbps and above. I encode mine in VBR (variable bit rate) of about 240 Kbps and they are just fine!

 

Several years ago I recorded a CD with a specific track encoded in all available bitrates from 128 Kbps and above. I then proceeded to a blind test, listening all the tracks both in my home stereo and in my car (not running though). I could always distinguish the higher bitrates from the lower ones as well as the non-encoded track. However that was in perfect silence and critical listening to hear differences in SQ. That surely didn't apply to casual listening inside a running car, where the higher bitrates are more than adequate!

Edited 7 October, 201510 yr by harisma23

One 32 GByte SD card can fit over 70 hours of LOSSLESS FLAC music files. This translates to over 60 CDs.

No disc swapping, no wear, no mechanical failures, no loss of quality whatsoever, in fact more info can be stored in the digital file.

So, apart from the sentimental/antique points, all other arguments are invalid.

One 32 GByte SD card can fit over 70 hours of LOSSLESS FLAC music files. This translates to over 60 CDs.

No disc swapping, no wear, no mechanical failures, no loss of quality whatsoever, in fact more info can be stored in the digital file.

So, apart from the sentimental/antique points, all other arguments are invalid.

Unfortunately the 60 actual CDs won't physically fit onto a 32GB SD card  ;  there is the chore of actually copying the content of the 60 CDs to the SD card.  I play my collection of CDs on my in-house stereo and value being able to use the same medium in my car.  I also still occasionally play LPs.

 

Incidentally, as from a mid-July High Court ruling it is illegal to copy the contents of a CD to a SD; not that it will stop most people doing so..

For the OP and others on here, I'm pretty sure there is some small print in the brochure about specifications shown in the photographs not always being coincident with cars supplied in all markets.

One 32 GByte SD card can fit over 70 hours of LOSSLESS FLAC music files. This translates to over 60 CDs.

No disc swapping, no wear, no mechanical failures, no loss of quality whatsoever, in fact more info can be stored in the digital file.

So, apart from the sentimental/antique points, all other arguments are invalid.

As already stated in this thread I am a convert to SD cards but it was a chore to transfer from CDs.I have all my music stored on my laptop but in lossless WMA format.This format was not recognised by the head unit when I tried it and I had to Rip all CDs again using Itunes (M4A?) and then transfer to SD.The SD plays well in the car with no quality loss as far as I can discern and the space used to store is about a third of the WMA lossless format.

Unfortunately the 60 actual CDs won't physically fit onto a 32GB SD card  ;  there is the chore of actually copying the content of the 60 CDs to the SD card.  I play my collection of CDs on my in-house stereo and value being able to use the same medium in my car.  I also still occasionally play LPs.

 

Incidentally, as from a mid-July High Court ruling it is illegal to copy the contents of a CD to a SD; not that it will stop most people doing so..

Mind you, that I too have a collection of music CDs, movie DVDs, even 5¼ floppy discs, that I am proud of. However, at one point, I decided it was best to preserve it and use modern media for my content. It was not an easy decision for any of them, but in the end I think it was the right one. But this could be subjective. What is objective though, is that technology moves on and that's what will happen with the CD sooner or later. Yes, you will be able to still play CDs if you wish, but it will eventually become expensive and inconvenient.

 

Regarding the High Court ruling, I was not aware of this as I do not live in the UK, but it's a sad to legally own something and not being able to use it personally the way you want. What's next, forbid whistling the tune?

 

 

As already stated in this thread I am a convert to SD cards but it was a chore to transfer from CDs.I have all my music stored on my laptop but in lossless WMA format.This format was not recognised by the head unit when I tried it and I had to Rip all CDs again using Itunes (M4A?) and then transfer to SD.The SD plays well in the car with no quality loss as far as I can discern and the space used to store is about a third of the WMA lossless format.

 

Some people claim that they can tell the difference. My point was that you can also store lossless audio on an SD card (albeit with an increased bitrate).

Edited 8 October, 201510 yr by eyegr