The new "infotainment" system is set up where you can plug in your iPhone or iTouch and tuck it away in a storage area made for that purpose, operating the player with the switches on the handlebar. You can also load up a zip drive with MP3 files and, if the zip drive is large enough, have enough songs stored on it where you could probably drive coast to coast and not hear the same song repeated. The CD player will probably not be missed that much. If I buy (or borrow) a CD, I usually rip the songs into MP3s onto the computer anyway. Changing a CD while riding is impossible.