Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article
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D.M. Procida wrote:
This CD player (a Meridian, and rather expensive) apparently uses a
cheap CD-ROM drive to get the data off the disk, and can use the drive's
extra speed to read ahead and buffer it (allowing it for example to have
multiple goes at reading problematic areas of the disk) in pretty much
the way I suggested would be possible.

I've got a CD 'jukebox' here. Either plays CDs direct, or rips them to an
internal hard drive. And thrust me, you don't want a CD-Rom drive spinning
at speed in the same room as a CD you're listening to.

I know what a CD-ROM drive at full blast sounds like. However even the
cheapest ones now have quiet or silent modes; they don't all have to run
at top speed all the time.

The Meridian solution seems to do as I imagined, needing neither to
operate fully in real-time or to require storage of the complete CD.

Is your CD jukebox a homegrown affair?

Daniele