On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 16:52:51 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

It may be worth getting a thumb drive, 8g is usually plenty and
putting your favorites out there. Plug that into your car player and
you may never turn the radio on again.


I've been meaning to try plugging in the hard drive my lawyer friend
gave me into one of the USB ports in the Canyon. I don't know if it
will work or how it will be displayed on the truck's screen (assuming it
will).



It will work and you will be able to manipulate the files on the
screen but with 30,000 songs out there it is pretty useless on the
road. Better is just to make a subset of the songs you like on a thumb
drive. You can put them in separate directories and select them a
directory at a time or just play the whole drive, sequential or
random.
I have a few different drive images on separate thumbs that are easy
to deal with. Then it is just a super sized cassette. You can also
burn MP3s on a DVD and get 4.5 gig or so of music that will play on
newer machines.
On vacation we usually have a thumb drive of music I build for each
trip but I have my laptop with the whole catalog if I change my mind.
I also carry a couple of MP3 players for the plane to use with our
sound canceling head sets. They are a lot smaller than a phone. My new
ones are about the size of a pack of matches with far more capacity
than I will ever fill. The LiON battery lasts for 30 hours or more.