Build your own CD player for under $20

[mvs_sarma]

Taken a look on eBay lately? Have you seen the IDE CDROM drives that are typically on offer for only a few dollars? Some of them are even brand new and readily available in bulk quantities. Question is; why would you want them? - they're entire obsolete!

Answer; http://siliconchip.com.au/cms/A_109528/article.html

After the issues of prices of various Magazines, the said player willplay wav files only or MP3 also- is not clear.

Today whaen you get a MP3 player working of 512Mb, and off single cell-- , i feel no point in hanging on to cd drives that occupy lot of space in the domestic front and finally not useful if you go out.

[T.Jackson]

After the issues of prices of various Magazines, the said player willplay wav files only or MP3 also- is not clear.

At a guess, I'd say that it would depend on what formats the player is capable of. I believe that the project is merely an interface to the player that does little more than control / send commands to it. Perhaps I'm mistaken? - I've never really dabbled in this area before. (I haven't read the article either)