HOW TO… Play music from your PC in your car
What you need: USB stick, audio cable or adapter, depending on your choice
Time required: An hour
Just about any piece of music ever recorded is available on your computer. With a wide choice of streaming providers and the ability to make digital versions of your CDs, records and tapes, it’s easy to build a library of a size that would have been unimaginable just a decade ago. If you haven’t yet digitised your vinyl and tapes, read the How To we published in Issue 554.
In many cases, though, you’ll have to leave it all at home when you jump into the car – unless you’ve saved it online and listen via a smartphone app compatible with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. But what if your car doesn’t support either of these? Fortunately, there are other options, and we’ll outline four of them here. As long as you have a radio, as a bare minimum, and your music is stored on your phone or a USB stick, you can enjoy the widest possible range of audio entertainment on the go.
1 Put your music on a USB stick
This is the simplest option, but it depends
