CD Player with Sonos system
I have a Sonos system made of 2 Play 5 and a SUB and would like to connect a CD player as I have hundreds of music CDs. How can I do?
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I recommend the Raspberry Pi option. Since you need SMB v1 using a NAS that has important data on it is kinda iffy. I liked WD but found them to have too short a supported lifetime to be a good value.
Right now I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a StarTech M.2 carrier board and a WD M.2 SSD. It has been rock solid for months, before the move to M.2 it was stable for years using a USB-SATA cable and an old 2.5 SSD.
I kept having problems locating my instructions herr in the forum so I put them up here:
https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/
Right now I'm using a Raspberry Pi 3B+ with a StarTech M.2 carrier board and a WD M.2 SSD. It has been rock solid for months, before the move to M.2 it was stable for years using a USB-SATA cable and an old 2.5 SSD.
I kept having problems locating my instructions herr in the forum so I put them up here:
https://stan-miller.livejournal.com/
Ripping CDs to a NAS or local drive gives alot of flexibility to your music. I've ripped most of my many CDs. But I've also kept the CDs as I am a collector and hoarder and would not want to get rid of them. They also act as a back up of last resort, as I've found that streaming services dont have some of my more eclectic choices.
WD My Cloud.
You could build your own with a Raspberry Pi and a USB 3 Portable hard drive, that would be under £100.
I have a very old NAS that works fine for Sonos. Spent a few months ripping all of my 400 plus CD's. Did 10 to 20 a night on a laptop whilst watching TV. Then BACK up all that hard work!
I have a very old NAS that works fine for Sonos. Spent a few months ripping all of my 400 plus CD's. Did 10 to 20 a night on a laptop whilst watching TV. Then BACK up all that hard work!
Thanks... Would you recommend any NAS model?
You might consider ripping all of your CDs and making the files available to Sonos as a local Music Library.
Once ripped you can put them on a Windows or Mac or on a NAS that supports SMB v1 networking. You can use a NAS to SMB v1 gateway to allow access to non-SMB v1 devices too.
I haven't had my CD storage cabinet open in several years since I did this.
Do rip to FLAC or other lossless format, you can convert to any other format from that with no additional quality losses.
Do make backups on a second device, accidents happen and having your efforts crash and burn hurts.
Once ripped you can put them on a Windows or Mac or on a NAS that supports SMB v1 networking. You can use a NAS to SMB v1 gateway to allow access to non-SMB v1 devices too.
I haven't had my CD storage cabinet open in several years since I did this.
Do rip to FLAC or other lossless format, you can convert to any other format from that with no additional quality losses.
Do make backups on a second device, accidents happen and having your efforts crash and burn hurts.
Nick is correct, the play 5 does have the necessary line in jack to wire the CD player to it as a source. It is a multi stereo jack, so get the kind of cable that has the necessary jack at one end of it. Wire the CDP to either one of the 5 units.
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