This type of shit is why I just want a vehicle with a CD player that can hold multiple discs. Then I could just burn my favorite music onto a few discs and not have to worry about not having paid to have access to the music I want and don’t have to worry about a song I dislike popping up randomly.

CDs skip when you hit bumps. Just use a thumb drive.

CDs skip when you hit bumps

Is your deck is from a dollar store lol

You could buy portable DVD and CD players back in 2005 that would keep playing without a hitch even if you dropped them. Admittedly this was mostly down to them caching the content in RAM and spinning down to save battery power…

I haven’t used a CD deck in about a decade. I literally don’t know how CDs would even sound in my car’s deck, because it’s a dead technology.

So yeah, probably?

The only reason to purchase a CD nowadays I think is memorabilia, or to support an artist/group… aside from that it’s pretty much as you say, physical media is a dying format.

Vinyl is an outlier, but even then modern vinyl players are noticeably worse than ones manufactured several decades ago