CD Storage (Jetta, plus Golf I suppose)

[DionM]

I like to keep a big selection of CDs in the car - well over 100 (copies, of course, kept in sleeves not in plastic cases).

In my previous vehicle, I found that the big 80CD wallets fitted nicely in the generous door pockets. I kept one in each side. Unfortunately the Jetta doesn't have such generous door pockets.

Has anyone found any good locations to keep a large number of CDs, and a CD wallet to suit? The only thing off the top of my head I can think of is the bin under the seats, but it's not quite the right size to take the wallets I have.

I could of course keep them in the boot, but it's not exactly easily accessible.

[turboveedubb]

Do you keep a street directory in the car? If so, where do u keep it? Are the door pockets big enough to keep those?

My jetta's gonna be here in a few days and questions like this that I'd never considered are starting to appear. If it fits, all good otherwise it's under the seat it goes!

[DionM]

Do you keep a street directory in the car? If so, where do u keep it? Are the door pockets big enough to keep those?

My jetta's gonna be here in a few days and questions like this that I'd never considered are starting to appear. If it fits, all good otherwise it's under the seat it goes!

I'm a male, I don't need no street directory

I do have one, but it lives in the boot, as I rarely use it. Have also got a navman style unit.

[turboveedubb]

I'm a male, I don't need no street directory

I do have one, but it lives in the boot, as I rarely use it. Have also got a navman style unit.

Hahaha Nice one!
I guess it helps when u have a GPS, makes the map kinda redundant.

[BeigeJet]

I like to keep a big selection of CDs in the car .

Hey Dion,

The Wife and I are sick of changing CD's when we go on a trip so I've bought an 8 Gb Nano for her and will get the ipod adaptor installed while having the 30k service shortly.

That way we get rid of a big box af CD's freeing up space under her feet or the kids feet in the back seat.

there are threads that talk about the restricted control of the ipod but we accept that as a better compromise than the CD case!

Cheers

[jb747]

We run and 80 gb iPod and it was the best thing I've ever put into a car. CDs are dead for auto use.

[Subie25L]

We run and 80 gb iPod and it was the best thing I've ever put into a car. CDs are dead for auto use.

But the stock CD player sounds so much better with CD than it does on the Ipod

[OvaltoJetta]

Do you keep a street directory in the car? If so, where do u keep it? Are the door pockets big enough to keep those?

My jetta's gonna be here in a few days and questions like this that I'd never considered are starting to appear. If it fits, all good otherwise it's under the seat it goes!

I was given a complimentary new street directory with the car and keep it in the pocket on the back of the front passenger seat. The CD's are in the drawer under the seat. A 6 stacker or mp3 / ipod connection would be a nice standard feature as in some other cars in this class, but if you burn your own music, changing a CD once every 40min is not too bad. Is there an ideal car?

[DionM]

Yeah I've thought about the iPod adapter, but it's a bit limited IMHO, I think I'd get frustrated with the UI limitations, and I'd always be pulling it out of the car to add new music etc.

I'd be really keen on the USB key adapter that's sold OS, however ... am still thinking about that, but for the time being I'm looking for a home for the CDs.

[VW Convert]

I keep a couple of CD wallets in the glove box that hold 30 CDs each and these wallets can fit in the door pockets or the under seat storage if required and I usually put a few extras in so I’m carrying 70-80 CDs in the car. It’s interesting reading the responses how we increasingly we want miniaturisation, instant results and loading a CD becomes a chore even with the 6 stacker.

This thread now has me reflecting on how rapidly things have changed not only in automotive sound systems but in all things technological. I’m an older member of this forum; I’m even old enough to remember valve radios in cars although I’ve never had a car old enough to have such a radio fitted. I’ve been thinking about how expectations change and how something that was a great innovation becomes inconvenient and obsolete so quickly:-

My first car had no radio so it was a case of a transistor radio wedged in the door pocket.

My next car had an AM radio with tuning by twisting a knob.

Then I bought a new Datsun 1600, it had the ants pants in car sound, an AWA Astor Diamond Dot AM radio, tuning by push button!

Then there was the good old 8 track cartridge player with cartridges seemingly the size of a house brick! Along came cassette players followed by FM radio…a revolution in in-car sound!
If you think storing CDs in your car is an issue, just be thankful you don’t have cassettes or cartridges!
Apart from their sheer bulk, heat and sunlight played havoc with them and countless cassette tapes were chewed up and spat out by tape players!

Then came in-dash CD players, holding a single CD, followed by six stackers with the stacker in the boot and then the in-dash 6 stackers.

Now we enter a new era of miniaturisation with i-pods, where we can store almost unlimited music in a tiny device, I wonder where to next?


Cheers

George

[The_Hawk]

If an iPod isn't your speed, how about a new head unit with MP3 playing capability and a USB port?

Assuming your using standard audio CD's at the moment:

Considering a standard song = about 5Mb and a CD has roughly 20 songs:

100 CD's x 20 songs x 5MB = 10,000Mb

Considering how cheap USB sticks are you could keep a couple in the car, then only take out one when you want to update them, you could even rotate two so you always have fresh music.

In my case I have a MP3 head unit and just burn a new CD every now and again, reality is that at roughly 3 minutes and 5Mb a song, I can go for about 6 1/2 hours without hearing the same tune twice with only one CD. Make up a couple of all of a sudden your 100 CD's become 15 MP3 CD's which are much easier to store and most likely much easier to use since you would have about 5 albums on 1 CD.

[99gti]

I recon that's a great idea and probably the cheapest too...

[LookOut]

I used to use an ipod in my car all the time, until it crapped out. It was the heat of the car being parked in the sun that dealt the death blow. Since then, and after I replaced my ipod with a new one, i dont use it in the car anymore. My current ride has a MacIntosh system, and i would have to agree, CDs are hard to beat for sound quality.

I think the best solution (CD/MP3/Ipod etc) depends on whether you are prepared to sacrifice sound quality for more random selectivity. What i mean is, if you have heaps of music, and you want to be able to hear any of it at any time, as the mood takes you, you should go for Ipod. If you want the best possible sound quality out of your system, use CDs. If you like the convenience of not having to fiddle around and change CDs, and dont want tote your Ipod around with you every time you get in or out of the car, MP3 disks are probable a good option (i have not used this option personally)

I loved the ipod in the car, and had playlists of good driving music that really got me going, but in the end, the right CD will do it every time (Black Crowes - By Your Side is one of my faves).

[jb747]

I'm running Eclipse AVN 6000s in the two cars I have at the moment, and one will be going into the R32 as soon as it's delivered. It does everything...music, dvd video, navigation, iPod, and reversing camera. Plus the price has just dropped by $1000.

[GermanwithaVdub]

i have approx 130 cd's stuffed loosely into my glovebox. had the car about a year and none of the cds have died yet. since they're all copies it really doesnt matter. plus it looks cool