Which CD-Drive for using CD-Plugin

[feeder6]

Hi guys,
I am using RPi4 with latest Volumio OS.
I installed CD-Plugin and connected this drive Asus DRW-24D5MT interner 24x DVD Brenner schwarz: Amazon.de: Computer & Zubehör. Everythings works fine but the drive is really slow an a a little bit noisy. Reading a CD takes 15 seconds or more an skipping from one song to the other takes 7 seconds.
Had somebody an idea which drive will be faster and not so much noisy?

Regards Daniel

[jacobacci]

I asked the same question a while back and got this answer

Which external CD/DVD drive for Rivo?

those models have been tested successfully with Rivo Hitachi-LG GP57EW40 Hitachi-LG GP60 please make sure you use the USB port close to the Ethernet port, it is the one able to deliver up to 900mA of current

[feeder6]

Thank you for the answer. I ordered now a Apple Super Drive. When it is not so good i will try the LG.
Th

[metro]

I already tried Apple Super Drive and it has the same problem with noise and delays. The problem is the CD Plugin software which is not optimized for playing from Redbook audio CDs. I basically gave up on using Volumio for playing audio CDs. Look at these other threads:

Volumio running CD drive at noisy high speed

I am using an HP USB CD/DVD Drive (F2B56AA). Volumio is running the drive at high speed (up to 24x for this drive), and the drive is very noisy as it is constantly spinning up and spinning down while playing a CD. When I connect the same drive to my Mac or PC and play a CD with VLC or Apple Music, the drive is almost silent. I am running the latest version of Volumio 3.

Does Volumio 3 support gapless CD playback?

Volumio 2 did not support gapless CD playback. How about Volumio 3? Gapless playback is important for classical music CDs. In music with long movements (such as Mahler symphonies), the record label sometimes splits a long movement into multiple tracks. On a standard CD player, it will play continuously without interruption, but when a software player doesn’t support gapless, there may be a brief pause between tracks.

[feeder6]

When it is the problem of the CD-Plugin it should be possible to configure it in the plugin.

[metro]

The problems can’t be fixed by configuration settings. Fixes must be applied to the code in the CD plugin.

I didn’t use the CD plugin for a long time (I gave up), and just tried again on the latest Volumio version. The same issues still exist — the drive keeps spinning up and down, and often long pauses to seek and spin up before starting the next track. When I connect the same drive to Mac or Windows and use player software such as VLC, the drive quietly stays on low speed and plays gapless without pauses between tracks. The problems in Volumio are caused by the plugin software, not the CD drive.