Raspberry Pi CD Player in RISC OS

I have a Samsung USB Blu-Ray drive which I can plug into my Raspberry Pi and it is recognised by RISC OS (as drive :0) and will read discs ok. However I thought I’d try playing an audio CD and it doesn’t seem to want to work. RISC OS recognises the disc is an audio CD and I can go into the built in CD Player which recognises how many tracks are on the CD but as soon as I click the Play button nothing happens.

I’ve also downloaded DigitalCD from the PlingStore. The app seems to work ok but will not play audio CDs either. I click the play button, the counter starts counting up to 2 seconds then stops and nothing plays.

Can anyone advise what the problem could be. Other sounds work fine in RISC OS and I can play music files with DigitalCD ok.

Thanks

There is not a analoge AudioIn support, I mean. The only way I know to playing AudioCDs is MusicMan from RCOMP. MusicMan can also generate WAV, MP3 and FLAC from it.

Last I heard support for USB CD drives was at best still in alpha and possibly non-functional for most cases.

There’s !MusicCD from Rcomp which is in fact a cut down version of !MusicMan. It was free to members of the Beagleboard support scheme, not sure if it’s available in the one targeted at RPi owners. Since I don’t own a CD drive, well I got rid of physical CDs long ago, I’ve never tried it but it aparently works on the Beagleboard. Not sure about the RPi. No idea if it’s available outside of Rcomp’s support schemes either.

MusicCD, as the name implies, is a program for playing music CDs on your RISC OS computer. Unlike many/most other CD players for RISC OS, it can do this digitally, as required by modern SATA/USB CD and DVD drives. MusicCD can also download track listings from the internet.

P.S.: google shows it being part of the NutPi package (with a naughty link to MusicMan 2 which does a lot more than MusicCD).

I can go into the built in CD Player which recognises how many tracks are on the CD but as soon as I click the Play button nothing happens.

Just FWIW, I have the same problem under XP. Got a little Samsung USB DVD writer. It recognises audio CDs and it even claims to be playing them, but there is no sound and I can’t hear the mechanism move if I skip from track to track. Bizarrely enough, I can rip the discs quite rapidly using audio grabber – so…. ??
[I know this doesn’t help you, but smile in knowing even a “big” system can get this wrong too]

I think both RISC OS’s built in CD Player & XP’s do not output the audio as digital data along the data lead but assume the analogue sound output is connected up¹. Though if you “can’t hear the mechanism move if I skip from track to track” suggests that is not XP problem, but it will be with the RISC OS player.

¹ most Optical drives made for the last four or five years do not have an analogue output though some bizarrely have the four pin connector and a not stuck on the bare drive saying analogue sound not available!

though some bizarrely have the four pin connector and a not stuck on the bare drive saying analogue sound not available!

SPDIF or somesuch?

Though if you “can’t hear the mechanism move if I skip from track to track” suggests that is not XP problem,

As I said, ripping software using ASPI works, so it is like XP itself just doesn’t bother. Not that I’m complaining. It’s only an extra step after ripping to dump the stuff on the iPad, then I can forget about the CD. ;-)