To my knowledge, none. I suspect it would be illegal to market it in this country.

...But not illegal to use it if you have it. An interesting moral dilemma. Thank you

To my knowledge, none. I suspect it would be illegal to market it in this country.

Can't see why it would be illegal to record your own CD on to your own hard drive for your own personal use?

But surely the obvious solution would be to record your CD's on to a computer and then transfer them onto your phone which you could then play through the car via bluetooth or a cable depending on age of radio/infotainment system in the car?

Dim and distant memory, but I’m pretty sure BMW E90 had a hard drive for music, as also (maybe) Peugeot 4007/Citroen C-Crosser. Probably an option on all of those.

Thank you!

I used to have a iPod classic with about 100 albums on it. From memory it was at least 1gb orobably more? Loaded mp3's via iMusic on the computer. Used to be able to connect it via a USB to the head unit in the car. Kept it in the glovebox.

All good eh? Well no. Change the car and it's no longer backwards compatible with the iPod classic. Had it through a Qashqai, a Vitara then now a new shape Mokka. Nope not compatible with the Mokka. So had to download a lot of Mp3's to a couple of really big Thumb drives. They were compatible.

Though to be fair I play a lot of music off my phone while in the car.

A hard drive may have been the bees knees when originally fitted - but now sounds like a high cost legacy system to be avoided.

It is actually really, really convenient. We listen to a lot of CDs. We don't use Spotify. This way the car *automatically* makes a copy of the CD for us. No faffing around with computers

Edited by mcb100 on 04/09/2024 at 13:00

Its the 21st century, just rip all your CDs to a USB stick or your phone and plug either into your replacement car's stereo.

CD Ripping isn't frowned upon now and Windows Media Player or VLC Player should convert the CD into handy MP3s.