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December 3, 2020

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

  • December 3, 2020
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My current Sonos system is only a Play:1 and now a brand new Five so I can hook up a CD player. I’m using a new RCA (red & wht) to 3.5 mm cable. The Play:1 and Five are not grouped and are configured as separate rooms. 

I’ve read and think I’ve followed the Sonos documentation for setting up and using the Five with a line-in device. I simply get no sound, but the system looks like it is playing. I also set the autoplay and checked that the audio-delay was already set for 2,000ms (although I believe this is only needed if the two speakers were grouped, correct?).

My CD player is an older Sony carrousel 5-disk DVD/CD player . I’ve plugged the RCA red//white into the section labeled “TV Audio In” red/white receptacles (also has a yellow RCA receptacle labeled “Video Out” next to it). I’ve also tried the only other RCA red/white receptacles set which is labeled “Sat/Cable Audio In”. There is nothing labeled “Audio Out”. There are two pairs of proprietary speaker receptacles and one “HDMI Out” receptacle. Also a section labeled “Component Video Out” with red/green/blue receptacles, a “DMPORT”, Optical port, and “TV Digital In” section with an Optical and Coaxial receptacles. 

Anyone with any suggestions? 

Many thanks

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jefarAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 7, 2020

Now that is also odd. This morning I posted a much more detailed description of what I tried so far, but when I hit Send, I got a notice that the moderators were going to review my post before publishing it. When I refreshed this page, the notice went away and my post did not show up. So I wrote a simpler version and that posted fine above. Thx

106rallye
December 8, 2020

Since FLAC is lossless, I'd advise you to use that, despite the bigger filesize.

In EAC I can configure a few databases for CD-info. Since Freedb does not work anymore I use MusicBrainz.

 

jefarAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 8, 2020

Yes, I agree with your suggestion for using flac. After reading a bit online in general, seems to be the best way to do this. And thanks for the tip about using MusicBrainz, good to know in advance. I mistakenly downloaded the wrong app from the EAC website, called ExpressRip. So I realized that after seeing the interface online and above from you, and will be now installing the actual EAC. One question I do have now is about the choice to rip to separate files for each track, or all tracks to one file. I’m going to start with separate files, one per track. Seems I’d have more flexibility using that choice. Going to start the install and see how the AccurateRip part goes. Seems like that part might be a challenge, we’ll see. Thanks again

106rallye
December 8, 2020

I make separate files too.

jefarAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 9, 2020

Many thanks! I got all the Christmas disks ripped, uploaded to my NAS, tested and working with Sonos. @John B got the ball rolling by noticing I had an AV system, not just a CD player and mentioning that digital is the way to go. And @106rallye for so many details on a great way to go about digitizing my CDs. There are so many variables for ripping, it would have been confusing and it saved me a lot of time with your advice. And I will get to my other CDs now that the Holiday ones are playing.

This is really fantastic, and really very much appreciated. Thanks much for all the assists

Senior Virtuoso
December 9, 2020

As a contributor to these forums - albeit not this thread - thank you, @jefar for acknowledging the assistance. Not many thanks are received compared to the number of solutions provided. 

December 10, 2020

@jefar - great to hear that you have an outcome with which you are really happy. Thanks for posting back. 

jefarAuthor
Trending Lyricist I
December 10, 2020

You all are more than welcome!