Ok, hopefully I won't sound like I'm 80 and technologically out of touch, but I have gotten into a tech rut which is starting to interfere with my cheap home entertainment. I'm hoping ultra-hip but not gadget-obsessed mustachians can help! :)
Way back when, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I used to find out about a new band, and go to the record store and buy a cassette tape. Then, later, I bought cds. Then I would only pick up a cd occasionally at a concert. Several years ago, DH transferred our cd collection to various hard drives around the house, and we use various devices to access the music at home and stream it through a nice receiver/speaker system.
The problem now, though, is what to do about new music and podcasts? Now, when I find a new artist I like, their music is online. I do stream music and podcasts through my laptop. But I need a system to download music/podcasts to be able to listen offline, whether accessible to our receiver system at home (which could be accessed through a flash drive), or to my car. In the car, I have an audio jack (and I'll double check whether it has a usb port) and a cd player. I have an Android smartphone.
I know if I had an iphone, ipod, or used itunes, all of this would be easy. But we are an Apple-free household, which is one of the things that has stalled me. So...help! Is there an awesome app that I can use to download music/podcasts to my phone and a way to then play them through my car speakers? I don't want the content to sit on my phone accessible only through earbuds--I never use them. Should I be just downloading mp3 files to a flash drive and then plugging it in from various places? I would like a nice interface, which a flash drive doesn't have. I feel like I should be making way better use of my fancy phone, which at the moment has no apps! Lol.
Thanks for helping me out of my tech rut and getting into the 21st century!