[IDEA] USB CD-Rom + Moode = UPnP streamer

[hifix]

@hifix

Yikes! The Wyred gear demands a handsome price.

Buried in one of their product descriptions: 

The minute you insert a CD into the tray, our Music Server immediately goes to work ripping your music as high-quality FLAC files.

so there's no magic here. Once again we're dealing with ripped files. 

Several users have implemented CD ripping in moOde using abcde. Ashley Cox, who doesn't frequent this forum, did it with auto-magic rip-on-insertion. @aknaggbaugh has posted a HowTo of his own. In essence, this replicates what the Wyred does, if perhaps not as elegantly. 

Autocompletion of metadata downloaded from the Internet can be included, albeit not an error-proof process. Adding coverart is even harder. [Full disclosure: These processes work quite well for main-stream rock and pop music. I'm a fan of genres not as well populated in online databases.]

As for live CD playback in moOde, Ashley Cox did that too; I've tested and tweaked his scripts. I need to post the work to github. Bottom line, as of now it works but doesn't fit seamlessly with moOde. Think of it as a 1980s CD player. No metadata. The UI displays no coverart and only an enumerated list of "CD track 1", "CD track 2", "CD track 3", ...

Regards,
Kent

Thank you for the feedback Kent.  I appreciate it.

I really like the Wyred unit, unfortunately it is a bit beyond what i can spend on an audio component at the moment.  It is very nice though.

I think i understand.  The UPnP functionality requires a file based starting point (not CDFS). 

An 80s CD player would be just fine!  There are days where i am "just not feeling it" when it comes to ripping CDs and looking for album art.  Even with ease of automation, i would like the flexibility of occasionally selecting a CD and having it play though the moode renderer.  Should this go well, i could look through the booklets that came with the CDs while enjoying the music (like i did in the 80s). 

Would you happen to know of a setting to adjust the CD-rom drive speed ?  My USB CD rom is a bit noisy.

I'm going to give this a go.

Cheers Kent.

hifix.