I will wear out first.
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Honda radios used to have the option of an add on, in trunk CD-Changer… Those changers I believe were made by Pioneer so those units would plug right in without any issue. You should look at your owners manual or talk to your dealership to see if they still have the optional CD changer in the trunk option. If so, there is your factory Aux-Input and could solve your issue of CD functionality. But this being 2019 who knows what audio options Honda’s have these days, I would think the CD Changer in the trunk has gone the way of the Dodo. As for car audio…I stopped paying attention to these things a long time ago.
This question also seems to be the topic of the current Ask Car Talk newspaper column.
I have to say if I had this problem I’d just find someone to show me how to transfer the tunes from the CD’s to a USB memory stick. I’ve done it using just the standard software that comes with Microsoft Windows. Not that big of a deal. Just do 2 or 3 CD’s at a time, takes 1/2 hour, and eventually it will all get loaded onto the USB stick. In my case, here in Silicon Valley, I know a local teenager I play basketball with once in a while who’s also a computer guru and I’d pay him to do it for me. That’s a win-win solution.
I think my son did something similar to my old Riviera when he had it. The cassette wasn’t good enough. He had a changer under the seat for I dunno, maybe 6-10 CDs, and seems to me he had to stick a cassette type device into the cassette driver. Then he could select the CD he wanted with some kind of remote. I didn’t really understand the whole set up and hey, who has a cassette player anymore anyway? I’m cleaning up and ran across all my cassettes and guess they are just going to the dump.
This reminds me of my first job in high tech. Sort of high tech. I was assigned to create a computer program that would read a digital cassette tape from a digital cassette player. That’s basically just a regular cassette player, only it records digital data rather than normal audio on the cassette. For the life of me I couldn’t it to work. The manager kept asking me when I’d be done. I kept saying I didn’t know b/c the player wouldn’t work. The manager started to doubt my ability. Oh oh. Then he assigned another more experience person to the job, and they couldn’t get it to work either … lol … turned out the cassette player just didn’t work, and none of the other cassette players in the buildings worked either. I had enough money for food for yet another day.
Yeah I remember the first word processors used cassette tapes for the storage device. Usually two of them. Must have been digital recording the marks and spaces for each character. They never did work very well. Then again the teletype, just used paper punch tape for the storage device. Sorry, I’m off the track. Happy we have progressed beyond that.
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