Best Music Storage Device for Cars?

I am looking for a music storage device for my car (Lexus IS 250). I have about 2,500 songs to store on the device at the moment, but the files are compressed MP3s. It will have to use USB 2.0 at least. Preferably under 100$ if possible. I'm convinced an external HDD is a bad idea, since it will be in a moving car. So, anyone have any ideas?


Its really nifty. I have a few of them at home and in the car.

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For me the best solution was Spotify on my phone. Import the songs to a playlist through the desktop client, be on the same wifi and offline the playlist. I have about 2600 songs total with "extreme" quality. Sounds really good in my Audi/Bose.

I would have done that, but I don't pay for a Spotify subscription, also, my phone has 1 GB left on it.

I go old school. iPod classic connected via USB. Only apple product that I'll own. I heard you cant buy them any longer though I think, so when it craps out I'll need to figure out a new solution.

That's Old school??
I am still using tapes

  • and they don't die like CDs from a cheap cd player when the car is rumbling

my car doesn't have a radio... can't hear it over the engine lol...

Used to have a all my music loaded onto a 256GB SD card, but then I started downloading in FLAC.

usb multicard reader and an sd card?

Hey if I had a tape deck in my car I might actually use it :D

Also old school is anything older than about a week nowadays :)