Play audio CD´s via USB on the Touch...

[Hamnberj]

Hi!

Is it possible to attach a USB-CD/DVD player to the Touch and play audio CD´s?

We got a couple of hundred of cd´s not ripped yet and my wife wants to listen to them "the usual way" until they alll are ripped!

The idea is to use an old external USB2.0-CD/DVD drive attached to the USB port of the Touch.
Do the squeezebox read the filesystem (ISO 9660?)and play the audio?

/hambergj

[bpa]

It is not possible with the shipped Logitech.

Are you referring to audio cd (i.e. red book 16bit/44.1kHz) or a CD-rom (iso 9660) which have audio files (e.g. mp3, wma).

[Hamnberj]

Hi again...

I do mean audio cd (i.e. red book 16bit/44.1kHz)!

Sorry about the mess about ISO9660!

/J

[bpa]

I have a plugin CDplayer which plays audio cd's on PC's through SBS. To make it work on Touch would require porting the audio cd playing application icedax/cdda2wav. I have plugged a USB cd drive into Touch and there is some recognition of it as a USB drive although I am not sure if there are more CD drivers needed for the kernel.

After that there is the question of performance - is there enough CPU to handle SBS, Touch display and also rip audio from CD.

[MelonMonkey]

Wouldn't it be a lot easier to just use a normal CD player with analog or digital output connected to the same amplifier as the Touch?

For the life of me I can't see the logic in complicating this matter with a USB attached CD drive.

[batka]

Well, a related question.
I wonder the Touch will read music files (FLAC) from an USB attached DVD reader, that contains a burnt DVD-R disc? So I mean, FLAC from burnt DVD disc, from an external optical drive?

Thanks!

[andyg]

On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:26 PM, batka wrote:

>
> Well, a related question.
> I wonder the Touch will read music files (FLAC) from an USB attached
> DVD reader, that contains a burnt DVD-R disc? So I mean, FLAC from burnt
> DVD disc, from an external optical drive?

No, only writable drives are going to be supported.

[batka]

On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:26 PM, batka wrote:

>
> Well, a related question.
> I wonder the Touch will read music files (FLAC) from an USB attached
> DVD reader, that contains a burnt DVD-R disc? So I mean, FLAC from burnt
> DVD disc, from an external optical drive?

No, only writable drives are going to be supported.

:lol:
Writeble drives are perfect! They can read discs as well.

Thanks a lot, that sounds nice!

[andyg]

On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:42 PM, batka wrote:

>
> andyg;485726 Wrote:
>> On Nov 15, 2009, at 12:26 PM, batka wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Well, a related question.
>>> I wonder the Touch will read music files (FLAC) from an USB attached
>>> DVD reader, that contains a burnt DVD-R disc? So I mean, FLAC from
>> burnt
>>> DVD disc, from an external optical drive?
>>
>> No, only writable drives are going to be supported.
>
> :lol:
> Writeble drives are perfect! They can read discs as well.
>
> Thanks a lot, that sounds nice!

Maybe you misunderstood, only USB memory sticks and hard drives are supported. You can't use CD/DVD drives.

[batka]

Maybe you misunderstood, only USB memory sticks and hard drives are supported. You can't use CD/DVD drives.

Ah OK! Yeah then I misunderstood indeed!
I thought you mean "writeable" by optical drives that can burn discs.
OK, now I understand, no optical drives by default.

Thanks for clarification!

[JohnSwenson]

I think the issue is that the server has to write the database file to the external drive. Even if you have a DVDRW drive and disk, the OS still sees it as a readonly device. In order to write to it you have to use special burning software not just normal filesystem writes.

John S.

[RadioClash]

Well, a related question.
I wonder the Touch will read music files (FLAC) from an USB attached DVD reader, that contains a burnt DVD-R disc? So I mean, FLAC from burnt DVD disc, from an external optical drive?

Thanks!

Why not just transfer those files from the DVD to a USB hard drive?

[Hamnberj]

Hi again!

It might seem a bit odd to add a USB CD to a Squeezebox. Probably easier to connect an ordinary audio Cdplayer as someone said.

My problem is that i want to make a squeezebox combo with the Nuforce Icon amp which only got a single analog input.
http://asia.cnet.com/i/r/2008/crave/hav/63004455/sc002.jpg

The only way to play audio CD's as well as ripped media from my NAS would be using the USB port on the squeezebox.

The Nuforce Icon features a very capable USB DAC so if it's possible to get digital outfrom the Touch via USB to the external DAC the amp would have an unused audio input for a audio cd player.

Of course is the cd player just a temporary solution until all media is stored at the NAs server.

/J

[lrossouw]

There is a plugin that allows you play a CD over squeeze where the CD is in the drive of the PC running the SqueezeBox server. Not exactly what you are looking for but should do for a stop gap.

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47288

Not sure if the plugin is still working etc.

Cheers
Louis

[colantra]

Wouldn't it be easier to simply rip the remaining couple of hundred CD's - from what I've read it would seem we've got a least a month or longer before the Touch is released!

[Hamnberj]

Haha... that's true!

"Wouldn't it be easier to simply rip the remaining couple of hundred CD's - from what I've read it would seem we've got a least a month or longer before the Touch is released!"

Probably what I'll do!

/J