New Sonos Five not playing CD player on the line-in

None of those connections sounds like an audio out so that is where the problem lies, almost certainly.  It sounds more like this is an AVR with built in DVD player rather than a CD player, so may be completely unsuitable for playing to a Sonos Five.

Many thanks John, I believe you nailed it. Yes, this is an AV unit, which does surprise me that it lacks those connectors. So, once you identified that, I did notice that the HDMI is an output port. And I found a HDMI / RCA female converter, which would allow for the cable with RCA red/white males to 3.5mm male plug for the Five speaker. I’ll get that in a few days and will test it. The description sounds like it does decode the digital to analog signal, not just a physical adapter. Thanks for the tip!

If you could post a picture of the back of the device, maybe we could see if you've missed an output….

Great idea 106 rallye, here it is. 

Thanks

You where right. Only ins, except for the HDMI. So technically this is a DVD caroussel?

I do appreciate the second look. I think John had called it above, that I should consider this an AVR device with a CD player added. In this case, it is a 5-disk caroussel which is just super convenient to throw our older Christmas CDs in and let them shuffle for hours. Can’t get these CDs anywhere and I should get them digitized. It does play DVDs as well, which is the other use I had for it earlier.

I did find an HDMI to RCA converter on Amazon, and will test that. It sounds like it does convert the signal, not just the physical connections, so I’ll test that in a few days. I’ll post the result here, just for reference for anyone else if needed. Thanks again for the double check. 

@jefar . Something you should at least consider is ripping all your CDs, not just the Christmas ones.  The files can be stored on a computer or network drive, and then played using any Sonos app.  This is really how Sonos is designed to play the music you own.

@John B . Yes, that would be the ideal. I do have a writer, but haven’t used it for awhile. Any ripping apps for a PC that you can recommend? And what file format would you recommend? Thanks.

I use EAC, https://www.exactaudiocopy.de

It can also rip to FLAC, a lossless audio format.

I’ve done some experimenting with mp3, m4a, and flac formats. The flac is 5x larger, so I’ll pass on that one for now. The m4a is what my android phone has for the digital albums, which plays fine via Sonos as well from my NAS. I also tried separate files for each track, and all tracks in one file. 

Any recommendations for the file format, or files separate for each track vs. one file for the whole CD? Especially related to what Sonos recognizes. My ripped m4a was not seen by Sonos, even tho it sees my purchased m4a tracks. It did see the ripped mp3 file. 

And should I just put all the music files into one folder that I point Sonos to? Or, keep each CD’s files separate. Any pointers would be appreciated, thanks.