Car manufacturers have stopped including CD players as most drivers use streaming – but with greater choice, are we losing something too?
very time I get in my car and plug my phone in, an interstitial from Rosalía’s 2022 album Motomami starts playing. “A de alfa, altura, alien,” she recites on Abcdefg. “B de bandida, C de coqueta” – I can’t turn it off fast enough. I love Rosalía but the Apple Music app defaults to the first song in the alphabet in my catalogue whenever it’s connected to the car, and Abcdefg is it. Her cute little ABC drives me nuts.
Some have questioned the move as CD sales were up 3.2% in the first half of 2024. Kim Bayley, the CEO of digital entertainment and retail association ERA, said: “With 15% of the UK adult population reporting that they listen to CDs in their cars, this is a remarkably shortsighted move by carmakers to stop fans listening to the music they love.”But you can’t really argue with the inevitable march of history, nor justify making extra versions of cars just to serve a small minority.
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