Recycle old CD-ROMs into Vintage Speaker Player

[@XCreation]

Do you have any questions? Let's me know!

[@sNEAKYnIGHTmUPPET]

can you post links to all the music that you used please?

[@WKMasterGamer]

why do you upload fake garbage?

[@DeZug]

How many cost you paid? And how many hours you make it? And how much is your wage per hour? And how much i buy a small Hi-Fi with CD player?

[@WKMasterGamer]

@@DeZug i believe less than $500 will do dat

[@arduinoprojets4718]

@@DeZug When you make something with your hands you feel a pleasure that is unmatched

[@cybermenindia]

Old cd drives with phone in jack were able to play cd music without the need of computer os. I used to use my computer cdrom drive of creative as a cd music player for a long time as they were cheaper than regular compact disc player.

[@MrDegsy69]

Sandeep Karan i think they still do but you have to use a special bespoke manufacturer specific line out audio adapter cable these days to bypass the PCM Sata cable option. Have you ever considered just using a USB DAC breakout box like this and streaming your CDs, flacs and mp3s straight off your computers optical or internal hard drive straight into your hifi system or tuners aux input? www.amazon.co.uk/Behringer-UCA202-U-Control-low-latency-Interface/dp/B000KW2YEI?SubscriptionId=AKIAILSHYYTFIVPWUY6Q&tag=duc08-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B000KW2YEI

[@arduinoprojets4718]

When you make something with your hands you feel a pleasure that is unmatched

[@cptcrogge]

Its funny how many kids nowadays don't know the "Play Audio CD" feature of old CD-ROM drives :D

[@camelazo]

And always crying when lose the data

[@prontosolutions4370]

or the tape drive floppy disk vhs casette tape

[@Tailslol]

yea but it is an ide drive....it is already lucky it still work and have the whole pack of face buttons. most dont.

[@yoshibros1111]

rude..........i know

[@yoshibros1111]

and so does my kid he listens to cd all the time loser

[@christosgeorgakis]

That's some high RPMs the cd is experiencing. Structural imperfection on an individual disc might result it exploding with the risk of shrapnel hazard. There is a reason for the metallic shielding, except of course for the elimination of noise due to electromagnetic interference.

[@sobolanul96]

I've never encountered a shattered disk in a cd-rom drive even while using those insane 54 or 56x drives. The only disks that blew apart were already badly cracked. On top of that, a regular audio cd is read at 10 to 16x no matter the drive used, since an audio cd player works almost exactly the same as a record player, it has to play the record/cd at a constant standardised speed(disk skipping protection increases the speed a little bit it is not enough to really matter). At 16x nothing will blow apart, I assure you. I'd be more concerned about the exposed laser head

[@Texaca]

lol hysterical 😆

[@f1reb4ll77]

Better not to touch the spinning disc for sure. "Normal" home CD players are usually 1x, not 52x.

[@90FF1]

Too many criticize. It is creative. Could you tell me what switch contacts you solder together at 3:35. LED lights. Motor not run. Thank you.

[@ShaneCarles]

At 5:59 Why did you connect this in Mono with a Stereo audio output? The amp looks to also be Stereo so why connect both Amp inputs to one of the CD ROM drive audio outputs and not both for Stereo?

[@electronash]

It was connected to both channels. The red and yellow wires to the right and left pins on the audio jack, and black wire to ground. The speakers were also wired separately to the stereo amp.

[@jgrimsley2000]

@@electronash Check the video. He tied the red and yellow together. Not only is that mono but the information from one of the channels won't make it to the speakers.

[@electronash]

@@jgrimsley2000 oic. I stand corrected. lol I thought it was one of those audio jacks where it has the stereo left / right pins very close together, but now I can see the traces even going to the two small caps. Hopefully he fixed that later, but yeah.

[@rennethjarrett4580]

To often people don't think about stereo as two different signals, if you grew up in the 70's and more so in the 80's you knew how important it was to have different sound and two speakers or a set of stereo headphones. It was a new thing and done extra well. The 90's most cars had stereos and the speakers were up on the front dash not in the doors of better sound system in cars. Today smart phone and cheap tablets only have one speaker and many cameras and smart phones only one mic and not two, so the stereo of two separate channels is forgotten. I often don't know if a camera is recording with two mics till I buy it and try it. Some lower end models have the same look as the better stereo mic model but they only have one mic, but still save it on two digital tracks. Cheap, cheap just to save a few dollars, and the expense of mono sound.

[@matakaw4287]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@jparky1972]

I can't remember the last time I saw a CD Rom drive with Play, FF or REW buttons. Nice idea though.

[@observer611]

Haha i have one now on my table I salvage the parts on a 1998 Pentium II desktop. Real vintage.

[@jaybloe9526]

tanks, for giving everyone who builds this genius idea exposion to class 1 lasers i wonder how many blind people are gonna walk around after they build this thing

[@tripsadelica]

I was just about to comment on the same thing. It would have been better to just leave the drive "as is" and build a fancy enclosure around it. The laser in a drive is a class 1 laser...your retinas will be permanently damaged by misuse of the drive laser in this way.

[@rickynetcl]

i think the laser dosnt come out becouse the cd is in his way (sorry if i cat explain i dont know how to say in english)

[@jaybloe9526]

@@rickynetclthe drive also shines the laser for a few seconds to scan for discs that could be enough

[@steveparkes]

Yup, another 'scanning the comments before saying the same thing' comment here :)

[@devankaladharan2563]

That disk is spinning at a high rpm and the only thing holding it back from flying away is that magenet .

HAHAHA

[@multiomer1997]

@ Helikopter CD

[@pietro_tino]

"speaker player" ah yes, I've always wanted to listen to my old speakers, now i can make a player for them!

[@matakaw4287]

I thought this was an interesting project. It would be cool if made with some fancy wood, perhaps with a lid that opens and closes. A fancy volume knob and a few LEDs. And yes lol if it was wired in stereo. Thanks for your time making this and sharing.

[@gorancheros]

Oh, this took me back to my student days, I used to make cd players like this for pocket money. Those CD-ROM-s with audio out had intentionally lower SNR. I can hear this one has really audible noise in the sound output. If you have had invested 30 min.more, you could have SNR figure at least 20dB better... but who cares about sound quality these days...it's views and subscribers what counts.

[@youknoweverything7643]

Such a cool project built one with my 8 year old son thanks and we enjoy my record colletfrom my childhood got the player in 2001 when I was 9 and he loves it but we made our own as well for fun thanks

[@stephaniecollins6052]

Where do you learn about electronics and how to do this stuff?

[@crispinconstantino4546]

Why do u solder together the red and yellow wire for signal output, beside that there is another point in adjacent side for stereo type signal ..

[@unnamed715]

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[@cijoykjose]

😂😂😂

[@wesleysafadao1647]

unnamed715 Princesinha Sofia jomUo?,!

[@wesleysafadao1647]

Cijoy K Jose no mN,n.,kN.P.zk. 🤗☕🥛

[@babushkablyattv2751]

@@wesleysafadao1647 r/ihadstroke

[@jonathanwong880]

Excellent job. Which model of the CD Rom? Not all has control on front panel.

[@MegaBobsel]

Since you are pulling the audio from the headphone jack you could have hidden the amplifier volume knob as the volume can be adjusted on the front of the CD ROM drive. You could've also used the audio plug on the back (that used to go to the sound card) since that's a fixed line out. Also some warning would be nice since the laser is always exposed.

[@messaoudkrioua5002]

The IC with matel is motor control speed ... you should put a cooler on top of it

[@UltramaticOrange]

why the heck are you only grabbing ONE of the audio channels off of the headphone jack? The headphone jack has two channels, the amp supports two channels, you have two speakers...

[@nyccollin]

Wow I haven't seen the vid to this point, but wow. That's insane to go through all that for a mono output.

[@UltramaticOrange]

@@nyccollin sadly, it's not even proper mono. The left and right channels never get weird together.

[@nyccollin]

Alastair Drong wow. Hopefully he never wants to hear real classic rock from the early days of stereo, separating drums and guitar, amongst many other oddities and anomalies I'm probably not familiar enough with to discuss, regarding the way music was recorded then and now.

[@pojiesocom]

The driver has broken channel right jack...that why him make a piece of old vinyls spinner

[@Auberge79]

That newer CD drives rotate as fast as 16000 RPM! Did you know that many disks actually burst at that RPM? That was quite common to have CD burst inside the drive. Especially audio CDs, which were designed for much less RPM of audio player. CD ROM s actually read disks as data and play it via DAC, while CD audio players and some older CD drives play disks directly from head to DAC with no buffering and at exactly 1x speed.

[@LOFIAD]

Laser safety? I guess this can make using cd's more enjoyable for those who are thinking getting rid of their cd's

[@adelina1980]

How do you protect the eyesight from the dangerous laser?

[@nitin9411166]

Its class 1 laser not too harmful

[@troyd.moon.6854]

@@nitin9411166 You Mean HARMFUL??????????????????

[@hahalolha]

Don’t quote me on this although I believe its only a class 1 laser while its in its housing

[@sibirischertiger166]

Laser Class 1 is Not Dangerous. It's Like a Laserpointer.

[@Deebz270]

@@sibirischertiger166 - All emitters of *coherent light* should be considered harmful to the retina.

[@ak0nst]

6:01 for what reason you make mono? without amortisation all box will be very noisy

[@UsmanMehmood661]

Konstantin Andreevskiy i also have same question it have to be stereo cuz it have 2 speakers

[@davidledoux1736]

Nice build. I enjoyed watching this.

[@jephreyg-power310]

it can only be possible by professionals like you too. thanks

[@mcdus78]

I have the same CD-ROM drive way back in 1999. I bragged about it’s 52x read speed.😆

[@IndoCropCirclesOfficial]

For more practical reasons, you don't need to dismantle of the CD ROM, just connect the power supply (into 12V & 5V) and insert the earphone jack into the audio amplifier. Done.

[@ratupmyass]

it gives it the turntable feel

[@imamawaludin2948]

Ora muddeng basane wong landa

[@sarch-vm4xz]

lols

[@ProximaNT]

but how are you going to make it know to play audio files?

[@dinbee4611]

Directly connecting the headphone audio out to the amp input would develop some distortion during playback.You need to attenuate the signal output of the headphone.

[@claudiorafaeldiaz9621]

Es muy buen proyecto, en Argentina es usado mucho por vendedores de CD callejeros, pero tengo unas sugerencias: 1) Ya que usaste una caja tan grande podrías colocar la placa de una fuente de pc, y así usarlo directamente con la red eléctrica... 2) Crea una cubierta plástica sobre el CD, porque si es mal colocado este podría des-balancearse y salir como un proyectil... Como técnico eh visto muchos CD hechos añicos dentro de las unidades de CD-Rom

[@DaniloSilva-ye2el]

Verdad .

[@LSandM-SpeakersFromEverywhere]

the buy link for the drivers is not in the description man … please put it those are nice drivers !

[@mariangigabyte8479]

What audio format (mp3.flac.DSD..etc) songs is playng? Videoclip avi.?

[@EstebanFrederik]

pregunto,no es peligroso usar asi ese lector de CD sin la proteccion del laser?

[@ferreroman2913]

y q importa, tampoco lo vas a usar mucho...

[@EstebanFrederik]

@@ferreroman2913 si pero, el que avisa no traiciona dice el dicho y mas vale prevenir que curar no?

[@ferreroman2913]

@@EstebanFrederik según yo por experiencia , va cagando de apoco

[@MegaWaxz]

What kind a glue are you using?

[@riloariichoariicho884]

Mine is a SATA cable connection and I don't know which lines are 12v and 5v.cant power up.please help.thank you

[@mariusmarius4878]

You could keep the whole cd unit and put inside a strong case, take the wires that you need. I think it's dangerous if the CD fails and small parts are thrown on high speed.

[@rebelscum6356]

My thoughts, exactly.

[@SkeletonSyskey]

A good idea, but as you already have a 3d Printer, it could have been made better with more printed parts. Also why didn't you use the cone as a speaker? As the audio properties of using a cone could allow for greater amplification.

[@vtndaily7540]

A bỏ con loa vào cái bông bí luôn thì hát y thâth 🤣

[@mayokundeji4846]

pls can you put link to the wooden color tape you used to cover the box.thanks

[@othello7]

What about the laser? isn't it bad to leave it un-shielded? I thought that was why I didn't see these "open cd players" on the consumer market.

[@gigazerkertv]

You should make a transparent cover to protect the CD while spinning.

[@rodan2alcubo]

Why you conect in mono mode? If you can conect in stereo in the jack

[@marceltartan4747]

You make a mono conection when you have stereo output and stereo amplifier (5:55)

[@yardbirds89]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@Ramp10er]

Why do you have to destroy the PCB and not just screw it? I know it's not my business but it's a bad practice...

[@bachtuananh]

I am Vietnamese, and i love your invent. It is so good. I like it

[@josephshunhuawong4461]

Hi there, I followed your method by providing the molex 5v using a 12v to 5v regulator (took out from a car USB charger port) but I am getting whining and hissing sound out of it. Where I tried supplying the 5v using an external power adapter and the noise is gone. Any solution for this? Thanks in advance. 🙏

[@compufreek]

Really cool project, but so many things wrong with tutorial part, if people don't know to set up step down converter before soldering to board they will fry it, why not use 3 speaker set up and put a small speaker inside the horn ? or at least use PVC pipe and use horn as a bass hole ? Tell people the appropriate amperage for "12V" as people might use "1A 9V" adapter and not realize why it skips sound... STILL its a great idea and good project !

[@MrDegsy69]

Takes me right back to my Blue Peter sticky back plastic days! 😂Next up how to make a batman cape and gimp mask out waste vinyl sheet!

[@trulyspinach]

Ok, cool. But can it play vinyl?

[@bazrazin1]

creative's earlier model had a remote control & play/pause, ff,next, stop buttons- to be used as a standalone cd player, also very few cdroms offered the play buttons.

[@perrruzzy]

the metal chasis give protecction of radiation? its the lasser a bad radiation?

[@MirceaD28]

here is a tip: make a small arm just like a pickup one that at the end has the metal disk that hold's the disk int-o place. And a when you want to us iti place the arm just like a real pickup. Or better. Use a laptop drive that has locking ball bearing so you don't need to place the metal cap

[@MrSkyTown]

High speed vinyl lol, careful though if it comes off the top when spinning it will slice down the walls 😂

[@prototypestudios1681]

Yeah, that's why I want to use a 2x or 4x speed drive, so I don't slice my hands off with out of all things, a CD.

[@aWildJosh213]

4:23 Stop flipping people off! lol

[@adrianoragazzo1321]

You should have explained to regulate the Vout of the buck converter before to solder etc..maybe peoples don't know and they trust the video...but buck converter are set random from the factory so they could give (eg) 1Vout or way more than the required 5V.

[@samyou8482]

It is nice but It is a hard work and take a lot of time and care . You can keep the CD drive as wheal in this box you made and connect it to any card of Amp. by a jack with it own speakers , put them together in the box , and supply them with the same ATX with it own cable .

[@jamesc.5213]

Now you should make a Star Trek Blue Phaser Laser gun using the Blu-Ray laser from a PlayStation 3!!

[@Rudranat]

This is only possible with the very old cd rom, with the play buttons, like first Creative driver

[@tijbaba4890]

I don't think so , this is true the cd player can not decode mp3 file .

[@gnaneswarrao916]

I would like to use DVD writer instead of CD rom drive. Is there any such project that is possible

[@dusty1048]

do the exact same thing, but with a dvd writer :)

[@noahzanon4871]

you should have done the parable to make a Bass reflex tube

[@Deebz270]

*Parable?* ... What like a story of how *not* to build a crappy CD player? And it is not a *parabola* (...assuming that is what you meant...) being used in this instance, but a fake *sound horn.*

[@Chyronn]

Morelike an ear trumpet amirite?

[@noahzanon4871]

@@Deebz270 very sorry i am french and i use Google translate

[@z0lt4n]

Great build! What is the name / link of the material from which the enclosure is created? Thank you!

[@marentesvic65]

How make external bluray plays on TV?

[@radzmahilum1487]

What kind of cover that you used sir? What it is name?

[@ahyonvlogs]

awesome project.. though the lens might pick dirt overtime

[@cursedsinner99]

What is the name of that part Which was u used in 3:47

[@tranznart1]

I'm sorry I'm not knocking your design but I'd put the speakers inside with a pipe over them and then y them to the horn I love the design and ingenuity

[@stoojinator]

It'd sound like shit doing that.

[@ApsaraAruna]

Form the beginning the video, I saw background light reactive with music. can you show how to make it.please.

[@Manny_News_Blogs_Tutorials]

Seriously... You exposed the delicate laser lens without any protection from dirt and weather? I wonder how long it will last.

[@joshua2025-j9j]

can you train people to those inventions??

[@Devik666]

Or does it only play CDs roms I guess you can play compact discs on it aswell right is this a cd 💿 your playing on it ?

[@dayuhanspace]

you can add another speaker or small twitter beneath the flower horn you made

[@zaccotton8628]

what sort of 3d printer is that, i want one

[@gsk1595]

It's really work if we made?

[@tubularguynine]

That is SO cool! May I ask a question?: Would you happen to know why the haptic touch power 'button' on my Harman/Kardon Aura will turn the unit OFF, but not ON? Thanks!

[@DeadMouseis]

what asus cdrom? what was the audio cd tracks? they sounded cool

[@nyccollin]

Research & Shazam

[@grilldave]

can this be done with a BluRay player?

[@shareitboi]

Did he make dirty finger in 4:23?

[@shareitboi]

:)

[@Davidslabofficial]

Make a video of how to do this with dvd comes nowadays

[@cls0372]

Neat. A whole new sound device for ya. Sweet.

[@СемёнНавзараки]

5:54 - 6:11 why left and right channels soldered to one channel? Mono?!!!

[@Kamaikashi]

why did you connect only one channel of audio ?

[@pankaj.p3]

Can you give me the link of ac power adaptor used here?

[@wavez-dj]

Muito bom o projeto, mas acho que errou só no carregamento do disco. O prato do Spindle devia ser colocado com um braço, como nos toca discos antigos.

[@isaelmendonca]

Você fala esse treco magnético que fixa o disco em cima do leitor? Se for é muito genial.

[@wavez-dj]

@@isaelmendonca Sim. Isso mesmo. Tudo o projeto está lindo. Acho que este detalhe o completa.

[@teckno0641]

where can i get the model you 3D printed?

[@kajenjegatheesan634]

This guy just glue it :-D...nice video!

[@antoniooliver7748]

Olá. Qual material foi usado pra fazer a caixa?

[@jango9112]

Dices en el título: "como convertir un viejo CD-ROM en un reproductor de música vintage" y uno piensa que será algo sencillo. Pero vemos en el video que además del CD-ROM has necesitado un amplificador, altavoces, un transformador y ... ¡una impresora 3D!. Por otro lado, aunque la premisa es interesante, el acabado es bastante tosco, sin mencionar que el material para construir el recinto no creo que sea el más adecuado, fácil de trabajar tal vez, pero desde luego no es el idóneo para la caja de un bafle. Me ha parecido ademas que conectabas ambos canales R y L a la misma salida de audio (corrígeme si me equivoco) por lo que el sonido obtenido no es stereo.

[@MASTER_YTP]

When you was pressuring the fake wood you flipped it off 😂😂😂😂. And put some passive radiators on that it would sound good

[@molic1981]

I want to say that the project and the idea making that kind of player is cool. But I have to say this, at the beginning of the video I thought that that case was from wood. I don't know why you choose the foam material. But it would be great if you use wood instead that. I'm saying these because of the first I thought it would be cheaper for you and for everyone else to build this kind of music player but then I saw you using a 3D printer so then I thought okay if she got that kind of to why not quitting little more effort to make it from wood. Still it's a cool idea. Good job.

[@gumpi5]

I'll think I'll have somewhere an older DVD RW drive with a dedicated play button :) but yeah, it's an IDE. Not S-ATA. And this thing worked until I'd removed it from a old computer. And for sure it would work fine yet

[@kevinbarton9052]

Compact Disc Phonograph is the specified invention.

[@chuanjiang8018]

can you show how the background light changes with the music.

[@KingMinhvuong]

Well done!

[@Uncandan]

The speakers are evidently being driven in correcting resulting in the distortion along side the foam like material box they both contribute to incredibly bad sound quality and no clarity at all.

[@adolfear]

I know how to play CD audio, But, 4 mp3, what can i do for this?

[@jhonbolanos9081]

Muy bueno pero el único error es la radiación del láser que al estar expuesto puede ser nocivo para las personas.

[@phitrow]

You have created such a big box, but why is the tension outside? I wouldn't. The power сonverter must be made inside the box.

Very cool ! You have cat in house ?

[@angelocadena7094]

Im down with the concept, but why is "trumpet" not utilized? I don't know, since he just printed it, maybe tweak it a bit? - my 2 cents, sorry -