Connect optical disc drive to Powernode
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Correct, the USB port is not for use with a CD drive, only for USB memory sticks / HDDs.
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Thanks for the reply. I assume it's not on the roadmap of future improvements.
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Sorry I don’t work for Bluesound, the Bluesound Vault has a CD drive specifically for ripping CDs if that’s what you are trying to do.
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Actually just looking for a cheap way to listen to my CDs. Don't really want to buy a CD player.
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Why not use the USB CD Rom drive on your laptop and rip the CDs you want to play. There are many programs available (some free) that will do this and automated including adding metadata. You could then share them across your network or even just pop them onto a USB memory stick and plug that into your Powernode.
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I did rip some of my CDs, I even have a Synology NAS on which to store my music, and it's effortless with the Powernode. But:
1. I have too many CDs
2. Some are really difficult to rip, for example classical music, especially opera (who's the author: Puccini, Pavarotti, or Bernstein?). Even easy albums like the Beatles' get the artwork wrong. Too much manual work!But if you know of a software that gets all the meta data right, great, please let me know.
Thanks!
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I understand your pain…
With tricky CDs I rip them and then just leave them to one side until I get about 10 CDs that need manual work, then I sort out the artwork and tags. For horrendous CDs with no tagging or totally incorrect info I suppose it takes about 5 mins per CD. I do use Google to find the original CD and track listings and use copy and paste, especially with Classical music as the movements can have very long and complex names.
Suggest you look at the Blisshq.com website.The App Bliss will help sort out your artwork and you can even edit the tags but if you search around there are many articles on tagging and in particular classical music issues. Remember you only need to do it once (just keep a back up copy or two) so the effort is worthwhile.
On a few HiFi forums members also find this hard work but many have subscribed to Qobuz and found the majority of heir CDs available, tagged and in higher resolution without the pain of managing a local music library.
Of course there is absolutely nothing easier than popping a CD in and hitting play…
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If you have a “spare” DVD / Blu-ray player and it has suitable line outs you could connect it to one of the Node’s inputs.
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Thanks for the tip on bliss, it helped me fix some stuff. But it seems the Powernode completely ignores the artwork from bliss. I think it uses its own sources Which would be fine if it let me override with my art. But, alas, it doesn't.
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If you make any changes to the tags / artwork you must run a "Rebuild Index" from the help menu select Diagnostics and then Rebuild Index.
In Bliss you can most certainly use your own artwork, when editing artwork there is a panel on the LHS with "Choose an alternative", "Upload an image" or "Provide a URL yourself."
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Another alternative might be to use a Teac PD-301-x. this is a simple yet functional and beautiful CD player that is exactly the same width as the powernode, you can stack them if you want and it looks pretty cool in my opinion. (I have not organized cables yest. Sorry for that).Hope i thelps
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