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A low-profile flash drive can be inserted into any of the USB ports (there's 2 in the center console inside the arm-rest cupholders). The simplest solution there is to only put the music in root folder, and it'll just play through sequentially (alphabetically by file name) and loop when it hits the end. You can also tell it to play specific folders and such, I believe it'll even do artist/album using the file metadata, but doing this through the head unit is distracting enough that you don't want to mess with it while you're driving.
Another option is Android Auto or CarPlay through a USB cable. That works fairly well, and you can use a wireless dongle to skip needing to actually plug your phone in (which is what I do.)
I can't really stand radio anymore - too many morons who think their opinions about music and (increasingly) non-music topics are what I've actually tuned in to listen to. And Sirius XM is worse than broadcast for that these days.
So my solution is to set the audio to nothing at all so that it's silent until my phone connects. I also have a USB drive that stays in for if I forgot my phone or something isn't working in that regard, I can just tell it to start playing the USB media.
A CD player would drive me nuts. I'm not about to start rifling through CDs trying to find something to listen to, or limit myself to a 6 CD changer like it's the 1990's. Far too easy to rip those CDs to MP3 and load a hundred (or a thousand) songs on a USB drive.
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