Music Solution?

[nigelcro]

So, what do you folks do for music, once you are out of range of UK based DAB/FM?

We are taking a run down to Portugal in June and I hate the whole re-tune the radio every 10 miles or so to avoid the cr*p French radio stations thing.

We have a '22 T6.1 with the standard head unit. My Sony Walkman MP3 player will play over Bluetooth, we could use Spotify as long as we have roaming and decent data on the mobiles or I could load a bunch of stuff onto a 128Gb SD card. Without CD players nowadays all of my 'Car CDs' are redundant, I used to really like my Alpine 6CD stacker...

Have I missed anything obvious? (I know... a new head unit! but not achievable with the state of the piggy right now).

 

[Martinw]

I rip all my CDs to MP3 files and have a USB drive plugged into the dash with all the music on it. Currently around 500 files on it, everything from baroque to punk.

 

[Anakin]

Download stuff from Spotify and play offline.

 

[nigelcro]

I rip all my CDs to MP3 files and have a USB drive plugged into the dash with all the music on it. Currently around 500 files on it, everything from baroque to punk.

That is a very good point, I am possibly over complicating things. Maybe KISS is the way to go.

I have to edit my collection for van use anyway, I have over 600Gb of digitised stuff, way too much to plug into the van. I like the simplicity of an SD card, plug it in and forget it.

 

[nigelcro]

Download stuff from Spotify and play offline.

Got to store it somewhere. Phone, SD Card, USB.

 

[Anakin]

Yeah, sorry. I download to my phone as I use it for Waze anyway, then play music via downloaded Spotify.

 

[nigelcro]

Yeah, sorry. I download to my phone as I use it for Waze anyway, then play music via downloaded Spotify.

...and that answers another question. I haven't tested running Waze, or Apple/Google Maps, at the same time as playing music from the same device. I presume therefore it works fine.

 

[Alster]

If you’re using apple CarPlay you can run google maps/tomtom go or whatever and still play music from spotify or any other CarPlay app

 

[nigelcro]

If you’re using apple CarPlay you can run google maps/tomtom go or whatever and still play music from spotify or any other CarPlay app

Thanks!

 

[Matt-T68]

Depending on your data package I use TuneIn Radio App to listen to local radio when travelling. No drop outs and most of the DAB stations are available

 

[Kind of Blue]

Learn some songs and sing!

 

[dubber36]

Radio apps on the phone connected to Android Auto for me.

 

[Sasquatch]

Android phone, has an SD card with many gigabytes of music, talking books, etc. Can be swapped from phone to phone as I inevitably break them.

 

[Vinyl1210]

I subscribe to the music service ‘Tidal’. All I do on my road trips is plug in the iPhone to the USB and via CarPlay just stream an infinite amount. My data is quite ‘meagre’ but I’ve never used it and you can listen to WHATEVER takes you.

 

[John A]

Radio apps
Spotify
Local storage on the phone
Or you could listen back to all episodes of the Sunday social on VDUb Radio at Mixcloud.com/thesundaysocial/favorites

 

[roadtripper]

I use a dual USB-C/USB-A memory stick with a big chunk of my normal music collection on that lives plugged into the van.

 

[Kind of Blue]

Silence is Golden!

 

[Salty Spuds]

So, what do you folks do for music, once you are out of range of UK based DAB/FM?

We are taking a run down to Portugal in June and I hate the whole re-tune the radio every 10 miles or so to avoid the cr*p French radio stations thing.

We have a '22 T6.1 with the standard head unit. My Sony Walkman MP3 player will play over Bluetooth, we could use Spotify as long as we have roaming and decent data on the mobiles or I could load a bunch of stuff onto a 128Gb SD card. Without CD players nowadays all of my 'Car CDs' are redundant, I used to really like my Alpine 6CD stacker...

Have I missed anything obvious? (I know... a new head unit! but not achievable with the state of the piggy right now).

I download playlists off Spotify onto my phone & iPad. Play via the phone when driving & via IPad/Bose Mini when parked up.

 

[doncarlyon]

We drove over to Disneyland last year and used Android Auto all the way, google maps and spotify. Didn't use a great deal of data, didn't get any allowance warnings and I've only got 12gb allowance on my o2 SIM.

If you are concerned about data usage, use something like Airalo to add an eSIM to your phone and use that for your data.