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Your question may have been meant in jest. But under the right circumstances absolutely :) Attach to a laptop's USB port, power the laptop via an inverter or run it off the laptop's batteries, and use it to play music, movies, games, etc. Don't want to use a laptop then get a palm sized mini-PC that can be powered over USB Type C. Then you can attach the optical disc drive to one of its USB ports and the 3.5 mm audio port to the 3.5 mm audio inputs which may be internal in the radio bay. You may have to use 3.5 mm stereo to RCA stereo adapter but those Y-shaped splitters are super cheap costing between $5 to $10. Used to be super easy to find at Radio Shack or Fry's Electronics... One other option is to just buy a handheld CD player to feed the audio into the car's stereo that way. This gives you all of the controls on the player itself, avoids lengthy "buffering" issues while trying to fool the car's entertainment PC into seeing the optical drive as a USB Flash Drive. Over better yet get a portable DVD/Blu-Ray player with its own 9"+ display. It will have all of its own controls, usually has a remote control, can be attached to the A/V inputs in your car's entertainment PC/radio, and most even have USB ports or SD media slots for accepting other types of storage media. Or hire a guy to add a radio bay to your fancy new-ish car that doesn't have a built-in optical drive because people think streaming and USB Flash Drives are the preferred means of listening to music while driving.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.The LG - 8x External USB Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive is compatible with the Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Mac OS X Operating Systems and it will not work in a car and interface with your car's controls. ^Daphane
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