Best way to get/use CD player in Taycan?

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My wife loves music, but refuses to play it from her phone... Only CDs.
This is definitely a "happy wife = happy life" situation. ?
Suggestions, please?
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I was a reluctant digital convert and currently have about 3000 CDs in storage. I downloaded all of them in FLAC into a server (Nucleus) over about 6 months last year. I use Roon to organise all of these files plus what I had purchased through iTunes in past and what I now add from Tidal.
For the Taycan I bought the largest USB C compatible stick drive I could find (128MB) and downloaded as many of the CDs I most listened to in FLAC, then inserted into one of the USB C sockets in the armrest. Amazingly it worked and I have all the artwork/track details. In my old Panamera I only had mp3 quality (occasionally I could trick it into accepting mp4) and and the artwork was at best intermittent, but these files are high quality (better than CD) and the artwork consistent.
In an older car I had many years ago (20?) I had a CD stacker fitted which communicated with the built-in audio system as a virtual 'radio station'. The quality was not great but it did work. I think you would be best going to a car audio specialist if this is the path you need to go down as I would be very wary of interacting with the electronics in a hard-wired way in a Taycan.
Is it just the need to physically insert a CD that is the attraction? I have to say I have used the USB C much less than I had thought as I find I listen to the internet radio stations and/or Tidal as these are so easy to access on the Taycan.
 

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Have you checked an USB CD player for car(s)?
 
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