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
I asked the same question a while back and got this answer
Thank you for the answer. I ordered now a Apple Super Drive. When it is not so good i will try the LG.
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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:
When it is the problem of the CD-Plugin it should be possible to configure it in the plugin.
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.
The problems can’t be fixed by configuration settings. Fixes must be applied to the code in the CD plugin…
That is what i also mean.
But i did not understand why the volumio team did not solve the problem.
Premium users pay a lot of money for that.
Were theses problems also with Volumio 2 and nanosound cd plugin?
I will test another distro such a picoreplayer
@Darmur
Dario, are these known issues? Sounds like this should be fixable.
That would be nice and a big advantage for the premium users.
If my memory doesn’t fail me, I believe this was addressed before and a quirck was added to reduce the needless spinning.
Whatever had been done didn’t work, and users continued to report the problem up to the present day. If you have a CD drive, please give it a try. If anybody is able to play an audio CD without long pauses caused by spin-up/spin-down delays, I would love to know what model drive you are using.
@jacobacci In that thread, you talked about spin up/down and you thought it was caused by your drive not receiving sufficient power from the USB. The answer you received was about which USB port to use for maximum power. However, if you were able to play a disc (although with pauses and spin up/down), then you were seeing the same issue discussed here, and there was in fact enough power. If the drive was not getting enough power, it would not even operate and read data.
I have now connected a Hitachi-LG GP60 to my Rivo. This is one of the drives that were used in testing.
The drive reads and plays the CD like it should, but is constantly spinning up and down very audibly as it is filling its buffer reading the disk. This might be ok if you are listening to death metal, but its definitely not what I want to hear when listening to Jazz.
@Darmur Could you guys take a look at this again, please.
@Wheaten The spinning issue definitely does not seem to be fixed.
Sorry to hear. Only have a cheap USB CD-Drive from Dell, for testing.
The LG GP60 isn’t exactly high end either
Hitachi-LG GP60 External DVD Drive, Slim Portable DVD Burner/Writer/Player for Laptop, Windows and Mac OS Compatible, USB 2.0, 8x Read/Write Speed - Black: Amazon.de: Computer & Zubehör
If you look at the USB CD drives on Amazon, they are almost all very cheap and these are what most Volumio users would be using. I do encourage you to try playing an audio CD on yours, to get a perspective on what we are experiencing. In any case, I believe that the problem is in the plugin software and the behavior would be the same on any drive.
I have opened a ticked re. this issue with Volumio today