peachey777
New Head-Fier
Made this a while ago but thought the people here might get a kick out of it.
CD Player:
https://imgur.com/a/X0dotka
Basically I've taken the SATA DVD drive from an old dead PC, and "enclosed" it around thin painting canvas that I cut to size and then my wife painted. Added some rubber feet to the bottom, and then attached it to a Raspberry Pi using the connector from an old external hard drive enclosure.
The Pi itself is running PiCorePlayer with the CD Player extension installed, and the sound is coming from an Apple USB C audio adapter to bypass the horrific Raspberry Pi dac. I also use this to listen to Tidal and some locally downloaded files. It all works surprisingly well and has some neat features like mixing the play queue with local, streaming, and CD content, as well as playing a CD in other/multiple rooms using either other squeezbox players or Chromecasts/Google speakers. It's all controlled from a phone app or browser and pulls in the list of songs from the internet. Pretty happy with how it all turned out.
Interface:
https://imgur.com/a/gxQ31hI
CD Player:
https://imgur.com/a/X0dotka
Basically I've taken the SATA DVD drive from an old dead PC, and "enclosed" it around thin painting canvas that I cut to size and then my wife painted. Added some rubber feet to the bottom, and then attached it to a Raspberry Pi using the connector from an old external hard drive enclosure.
The Pi itself is running PiCorePlayer with the CD Player extension installed, and the sound is coming from an Apple USB C audio adapter to bypass the horrific Raspberry Pi dac. I also use this to listen to Tidal and some locally downloaded files. It all works surprisingly well and has some neat features like mixing the play queue with local, streaming, and CD content, as well as playing a CD in other/multiple rooms using either other squeezbox players or Chromecasts/Google speakers. It's all controlled from a phone app or browser and pulls in the list of songs from the internet. Pretty happy with how it all turned out.
Interface:
https://imgur.com/a/gxQ31hI