the insides of a CD player

game16 · Post by **game16** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:52 am

quite a long time to upload, whose jack harper btw?

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:02 am

Jack Harper is the main character in Ben's movie "The Adventurous".

Photos!

Stock Photo (Front):

Stock Photo (Back):

Insides connected via ribbon cable:

The board still in case without laser:

The laser:

The back of the circuit board:

The LCD display and buttons:

Everything messily hooked up togtheher:

Hope this helps with whatever your project is!

game16 · Post by **game16** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:31 pm

wow, thanks man, those things are huge! do you think i'd be able to split the board like a controller?

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 2:50 pm

I doubt it, because of all the chips. You could always experiment on one of those crappy $10 cd players though. I think the one I took apart was $80 CAD when I bought it.

Zee100 · Post by **Zee100** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:08 am

why dont you just get a mini-disc player my freind has one and there really neat

game16 · Post by **game16** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 11:52 am

they cost too much :\

blackbox_dev · Post by **blackbox_dev** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:13 pm

Do they even make MiniDisc players any more? I've looked for them in various stores but can only find the MiniDiscs.

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:42 pm

Do they even make MiniDisc players any more? I've looked for them in various stores but can only find the MiniDiscs.

Yeah but your chances of finding one in north America are slim, they are dieing breed my indeed friend but on the flip side it makes the quite affordable on eBay.

I personally own an MZ-R70 which was released in 2000 at $300 which I bought this year (06) at around $30 on eBay.

My personal findings having used it:

recordings from my laptop to the analog line-in are crisp and clear I can barely tell the difference between my recordings and the mp3s of them.

Be warned you'll probably want a decent sound card if you want to be able to get the volume level you want in analog mode.

I can't comment on the digital line in since I am missing that cable. (although I have the Hi-Def adapter for my xbox so I do have actual have a device that puts out digital audio)

other than that the only real down side is the cost of the disks (almost $2/disk) and the fact that the head adjustment noise on my model is a little loud when listening to it in a quiet room.

game16 · Post by **game16** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:02 pm

:\ see, now i need a CD player <_< >_> $10 ya say, still prettty wallet stretching and nice to know someone else saw 2001:A space Oddessey

teraflop122 · Post by **teraflop122** » Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:58 pm

Wait a minute. Are you trying to take a standard CD player, make it a fourth the original size, and then somehow instruct it to read MP3's from a disk? Or are you just trying to get an MP3 CD player, and cut it down in size?

Either way, you'd need to do a rediculous amount of engineering on the player to get what you desire. For instance the read laser is mounted to a motorized track equal in length to the radius of the CD data area. You'd have to rip the thing apart and build it new, almost from scratch, to be much smaller.