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Hifiberry and CD Player

Matteo Tonini

July 30, 2021 16:32

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Hi, 

does anybody have experience in using an USB CD Player connected to the Raspberry Pi?

I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with an HiFiBerry DIGI + Pro running Hifiberry OS and I would like to add CD playback to the system!

 

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  phill August 06, 2021 17:00

  I have the same setup and also thought about that. @ Hifiberry yes Volumio supports it with nanosound (nanomesher.com) plugin. There is also "Peppy Player" distro that has it. There is a German that did it (CD-Player mit dem Raspberry Pi 3 bauen - PC-WELT (pcwelt.de)). Mplayer is mentioned.

  Maybe it's possible to do something like that and deliver it as a plugin via docker, if a different player is needed.

  Otherwise it could be presented as a CDdrive icon in sources but work just as the local music storage (store album art on sd or just in ram). I don't know if an eject button has to be implemented as well...

  This is just me brainstorming so I don't know the effort needed to make this happen.

  Edited by phill August 06, 2021 17:02
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  NEO Dan May 06, 2022 02:10

  You could always use a traditional CD player with a TOSLINK optical out with the DAC+ DSP board.

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  HiFiBerry team August 02, 2021 06:16

  HiFiBerryOS does not have any CD playback functionality. I'm not sure if there are other distributions that have something like this implemented.

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  Matteo Tonini August 06, 2021 18:40

  The best would be to see this implemented in Hifiberry OS!

  I also have been looking at Volumio.
  The paid version has CD Playback embedded I believe.
  With the free version, should be possible to manually install nanosound plugin as @phill pointed out.

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  HiFiBerry team August 06, 2021 18:42

  It definitely will have very low priority for our own development, but if somebody wants to work on this, we'll be happy to support.

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  Matteo Tonini August 06, 2021 19:05

  I actually took a look at the repo of the OS.
  I would help out, but hardware requirements to run the dev environment are just out of my possibilities.

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  phill August 06, 2021 19:43

  I understand the low priority. Do you think i'd be possible to implement it in the same way the local music storage is implemented or is this impossible? 

  And if it's possible where would I start to get to know how to even implement that?

  Edited by phill August 06, 2021 19:44
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  phill August 06, 2021 22:48

  For documentation purposes a project that implemented the cd player (and a ripper): raspiblaster-manual/raspiblaster_en.pdf at master · schlizbaeda/raspiblaster-manual · GitHub

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  Giddy4286 November 29, 2022 02:41

  I would love for this to happen. I have an old Apple superdrive that I'm planning to use in a raspberry pi CD player/network player project. Would love to use hifiberry.

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  Vincent May 22, 2023 14:12

  Hey,
  I'm new here and totally into building a CD player (transport exactly).
  I've been trying Volumio (paid), Kodi on DietPi, piCorePlayer, Moode, Libreelec (Kodi) and Ropieee. (not HifiBerry yet)
  Most of them have this CD reading feature (from an old internal DVD writer in SATA + USB adaptor).
  
  What I want to achieve is a bitperfect CD transport with Song/Album/Artist Info (displayed on a small OLED Screen) and it doesn't seem to exist anywhere. 
  
  For now, It's working with LibreElec, but I have no control over the bitperfect transfer (I don't know wether it is or not), and a CD + Infos take almost a minute to "mount". Globally LibreElec/kodi is just way too big for what I'm trying to achieve. I would need a standalone custom miniOS :)
  
  If anyone wants to discuss it... with pleasure.