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Offline Dreambird

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« on: March 21, 2003, 11:59:00 PM »
Anyone have any ideas as to where I might find an external Audio CD player... if what I'm looking for even exists...  

I've mentioned here before that I have trouble getting Audio CD's to play sometimes in the bay CD ROMS in either my Lombard or my Pismo... they will play in the PC which has just a slightly bigger tray. In the PB's anything around 60 min. in length plays fine... soon as it gets around 70 - 75 min. the last track or two will be messed up, garbled, skippy.

Ideally I'd like something that I can plug into my Yamaha speakers which have a standard audio jack and then by USB hook the works into the PB, so I can still make use of iTunes and SoundJam... something portable is OK, if it's of decent quality.

Just to complicate it more I'd like it so I don't have to dish out more than about $100 CDN. *ouch**

I know these CD's play in standard machines... they have played in the stores I've returned to.
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2003, 06:22:00 AM »
You could try to buy a used Apple PowerCD.

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It connects via SCSI, so it would work with your Lombard.
It also plays Audio CDs as stand-alone CD-player and has audio ports so I believe you can connect your speakers to it.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2003, 06:25:00 AM »
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Originally posted by Dreambird:
Anyone have any ideas as to where I might find an external Audio CD player... if what I'm looking for even exists...
Why don't you buy a cheap cd-writer?
They all play cd's as well, and that way you have an extra writer, wich might come in handy anyway.
They do sell seperate cd-rom drives but i'm not really sure if they still do that these days.
Anyway, as far as i know, all the external players/writers have a left/right audio channel output, that way you can even hook it up to your audio system.
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2003, 10:57:00 AM »
Send me a ticket (one way if you want) to your place gal and I'll sing for ya. <gr>
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2003, 08:38:00 PM »
Spartacus...

That is one sweet little unit!    I'd love one... if I can find it. I do have a firewire converter that lets me use SCSI on the Pismo... I did that for my Orb Drive. Well unfortunately the Pismo and the Orb detest each other... crashes so hard I wrecked two Orb disks. Might work with this or not... I dunno... but it's such a neat piece I'd be happy just using it separately.

Marcel...

Thanks for the suggestion, I've started looking at some to see if I can find something in my budget. The local Mac Store wants a ridiculous $399 CDN for an external firewire/USB CDRW...  

Bill!...

Trust you to come up with the most eerrrrrm, "unique" solution... question is Can you sing? or will I go running for cover?
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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2003, 08:48:00 PM »
Can I sing? Sheesh girl.
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2003, 06:56:00 AM »
That's not too bad! But I gotta tell ya... "my" dog went flying across the room a'barkin' his fool head off when I played that...        

I guess I shouldn't laugh at him... but it was just one of those Kodak moments!!
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2003, 11:10:00 PM »
Spencer has good taste. <gr>
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2003, 11:30:00 PM »
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2003, 06:31:00 PM »
So... now you see why I keep him around Bill...  
Still thought it's a cute sound file... swiped a copy for myself, iffn' you don't mind...

Spartacus... some of those long urls with symbols etc in them don't co-operate well...    
But thanks very much for doing the search for me... I just copied and pasted. I got a quick look at them, but my connection is "dirt slow" right now...    so I'll go back for a closer inspection later.

I suppose by the looks of all those cables I shouldn't have any trouble hooking it to my external speakers via a standard audio jack... yes?
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« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2003, 08:03:00 PM »
"swiped a copy for myself" Nah. Think I sent ya the R rated version last year. <gr>
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« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2003, 04:22:00 PM »
Spartacus... all three of the people selling those units say they'll only ship within the US...        

I hate that...        We're only a few miles further... stuff otherwise generally flows freely, I'm willing to deal with the customs (no duty on puter parts... mainly security these days) and the extra shipping...

Bill...

I had a sound file that I just know would have you rolling on the floor... I've looked all over back up disks I have but I'm afraid it went *poof** in this last summer's PC HD blow up...      
Dang!    
 
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« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2003, 07:01:00 AM »
Email the sellers. Sometimes they agree to ship to other places.
I had such case with eBay UK where the auction description said UK only, but when I emailed the seller he agreed to send it to me here in Germany.
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