jamesbruton
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Most old PC CD ROM drives (and some new ones) would play CD Audio tracks an audio CD that was inserted with only power applied to them - and no PC connected. This was done using the buttons on the front for play/next track etc, and the audio would come out of a headphone jack on the front, or from the CD Audio connector on the back...
Can anyone think of a simple way to control the CD Audio playing functionality of an old CD ROM drive from a Picaxe, somehow through the IDE connector?. I'm not interested in decoding the audio through the IDE interface, or decoding mp3s on the disc etc - just controlling the play / pause / stop / track select functions for playing CD Audio (such as commercial audio CDs).
I think I saw a cpmmercial module that did this once but I can't remember where or find it anywhere... some sort of third party board that connects to the IDE connector and has a simple protocol / logic level inputs to control the CD audio functions of the drive?
This is for a sound installation which will be in public - so it has to be fairly low cost incase someone pinches it, hence wanting to use an old CD ROM drive (otherwise it's the vmusic module I guess). It must have functionality to select different tracks and play/stop controlled by a Picaxe somehow.
thanks!
Can anyone think of a simple way to control the CD Audio playing functionality of an old CD ROM drive from a Picaxe, somehow through the IDE connector?. I'm not interested in decoding the audio through the IDE interface, or decoding mp3s on the disc etc - just controlling the play / pause / stop / track select functions for playing CD Audio (such as commercial audio CDs).
I think I saw a cpmmercial module that did this once but I can't remember where or find it anywhere... some sort of third party board that connects to the IDE connector and has a simple protocol / logic level inputs to control the CD audio functions of the drive?
This is for a sound installation which will be in public - so it has to be fairly low cost incase someone pinches it, hence wanting to use an old CD ROM drive (otherwise it's the vmusic module I guess). It must have functionality to select different tracks and play/stop controlled by a Picaxe somehow.
thanks!