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Spo77
Contributor I
June 19, 2019
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cd player

Hello, I have a set of Play 1s and I intend to add a subwoofer.

I have some cds that I cannot get on Apple Music that I would like to play.

Is the Sonos Connect the only way to connect a CD player?
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    KumarAnswer
    June 19, 2019
    You need Sonos kit with line in jacks, and Connect is one such. Connect Amp/Play 5 are other such.
    You are better off investing in a NAS for less than half the price of any of the above, rip the CDs to it and play on Sonos. And box the CDs and sell the CD player.
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    KumarAnswer
    June 19, 2019
    You need Sonos kit with line in jacks, and Connect is one such. Connect Amp/Play 5 are other such.
    You are better off investing in a NAS for less than half the price of any of the above, rip the CDs to it and play on Sonos. And box the CDs and sell the CD player.
      Spo77Author
      Contributor I
      June 19, 2019
      Thanks Kumar, do you have any opinions on a good entry level model? I don’t need very much storage.
      bockersjv
      bockersjv
      Local Superstar
      June 19, 2019
      I made my new one. Bought an Odroid Hc 1 for £59 then added a spare hard drive I had (250gb) which is plenty big enough. You can pick up a SATA 120gb drive for £15!
      https://www.odroid.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=817
      They do an HC2 module for 3 and a half inch drives.
      Lots of YouTube tutorials too help you.

      Loaded Openemdiavault, flashed it to a cheap SD card and for free and took 30 mins to have it up and running.

      https://www.openmediavault.org/

      The hard drive I have is an SSD so the whole thing is silent too and with a gigabit interface it's quicker than my old expensive Nas. It's small enough to hide anywhere and it was great fun and very satisfying to make and set up.

      So a full function Nas for £75 or less if you have a spare drive
        Kumar
        June 20, 2019
        I got the smallest size WD My Cloud for about USD 110; at 2 TB the memory is still huge for just music and most of mine is unused. It has worked flawlessly from day 1, about four years ago.
        If your router has a USB port, the simpler solution will be a memory stick; before buying one, try one CD ripped to any memory stick lying around and see if it works for Sonos.
          Spo77Author
          Contributor I
          June 20, 2019
          Thanks bockersjv and Kumar.
          Stanley_4
          Stanley_4
          Grand Maestro
          June 22, 2019
          I originally went cheap, Raspberry Pi, USB to SATA cable, 2.5 SATA SSD. Easy to set up, rock solid stability and longer security update time-frame than many NAS devices. Plenty fast enough for multiple players, very low power and totally silent in a tiny case, wired or WiFi options and you can sometimes find the WiFi only one for $5.00.

          Got fancy and switched to a piggy-back M.2 drive to get rid of the cable and external SSD a while back.
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