External CD Drive for Lexus ES 350 2023

[P Stark]

Hi. I have a large collection of cds. I purchased an external cd player for a 2023 Lexus ES 350.

It worked well for 8 months, and stopped performing.

I tried a few other models, and nothing worked. Once the unit is plugged into the USB drive it is no longer recognized.

Is there an external cd player that works best for Lexus cars? Or how can you get the car to recognize any player?

Thanks!!

 

 

[Lexus-CT]

Not that I understand the reason for having an external CD player if the internal is functioning, but anyway: Is the external CD player powered by the USB from the car or is it powered from another place? The USB in the car we have is not able to deliver power enough to feed an external CD player and will not be able to function.

The player in our car can read DVD disc and I have made some with m4a compression 512 kbps which is for most people will be impossible to find sound quality different to standard CD music discs that are recorded with 1411 kbps. A DVD disc can hold quite a lot of hours of music so changing discs will hardly be needed for most trips, longer than the time between refuelling the car. On top of that, you can then select the music you want to listen to, not just what the maker of the music-CD wanted to put on it.  

High quality – high resolution music recorded 24-bit/192kHz is anyway not made to be listened to in any car, as no loudspeakers that can survive the rough life in a car will be able to reproduce the sound that less than 5% of people are having hearing good enough to hear the difference between that and the m4a compression used in movie-DVD discs