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ARC SL to 12 year old CD Player via Ethernet

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I just purchased the ARC SL and have a 12 year old CD 5 disk carousel which has an ethernet connection which will plug into the ARC SL. My question is will the ARC recognize the CD player and be able to play since the CD player has no WiFi.

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melvimbe

No. The Arc can play audio it receives from streaming sources, stored local libraries, other Sonos devices, or it’s HDMI-ARC/eARC connection. It can’t play audio from random audio devices that happen to have an ethernet port on them. They would not share the same protocols for communication. I doubt your CD player can even send audio via the ethernet port anyway.

Danny

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GuitarSuperstar

Lead Maestro

No, the Arc will not recognize the CD player. You will have to purchase a Sonos Port or Sonos Amp to play your CD player’s audio through the Sonos Arc.

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Ken_Griffiths

I just purchased the ARC SL and have a 12 year old CD 5 disk carousel which has an ethernet connection which will plug into the ARC SL. My question is will the ARC recognize the CD player and be able to play since the CD player has no WiFi.

No it won’t - you need to connect the CD player line-out (if it has that feature), to a Sonos device with a line-in, such as:

Sonos Port
Play:5/Sonos Five
Sonos Amp

melvimbe

No, the Arc will not recognize the CD player. You will have to purchase a Sonos Port or Sonos Amp to play your CD player’s audio through the Sonos Arc.

Not necessarily. You could get an RCA/analog to HDMI covertor between the CD player and one of the TVs HDMI inputs. Turning to the TV to the right input would play the CD audio on your Arc.

Danny

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agomezAuthor

Contributor I

Thank you for your suggestions I will now research getting a sonos port or sonos amp.

Airgetlam

Or a Sonos Five, which also has an analog line in, and the benefit of being an extra speaker.

Bruce

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lohr500

Prodigy I

No, the Arc will not recognize the CD player. You will have to purchase a Sonos Port or Sonos Amp to play your CD player’s audio through the Sonos Arc.

Not necessarily. You could get an RCA/analog to HDMI covertor between the CD player and one of the TVs HDMI inputs. Turning to the TV to the right input would play the CD audio on your Arc.

I seem to recall a previous post on this where it was suggested that a TV wouldn’t recognise the Audio only HDMI input without a corresponding video signal and so wouldn’t pass through or play the audio only content. I could be mistaken and/or it may have been a specific brand of TV.

Has anyone successfully used an RCA/Analog to HDMI converter in this way?

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agomezAuthor

Contributor I

I spoke yesterday with Sonos they recommend the Sonos AMP since it has an amplifier. pricey but there is no other solution. CD players are antiquated but we have hundreds of CD’s.

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John B

I spoke yesterday with Sonos they recommend the Sonos AMP since it has an amplifier. pricey but there is no other solution. CD players are antiquated but we have hundreds of CD’s.

@agomez - Are you going to get a pair of passive speakers to go with that Amp? If not, the recommendation from Sonos is really, really bad.

jgatie

I spoke yesterday with Sonos they recommend the Sonos AMP since it has an amplifier. pricey but there is no other solution. CD players are antiquated but we have hundreds of CD’s.

Rip your CD’s to a PC or NAS and be done with it. Trust me, once you use Sonos with a local library, your CD player will be gathering dust. Playlists, track readout, access from your phone, no getting up, etc, will win out. I connected a CD player to my ZP100 way back in 2008 and I used it exactly once. Certainly it shouldn’t be the deciding factor on what you buy because most people never use it.

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