Folks,

I need to build a sound FX generator and/or jingle player. I thought the
best way to do this was to burn the tracks onto a CD-R and then simply play
the required track back. I don;t have a cd player that I can program to
have a set of buttons that will play a single track (or part of). So I
though heres an ideal project for a PIC.

I have two old cd-rom drives (both 2 speed - but thats irrelevant as I only
want to play audio). One is a Creative (Panasonic) with the panasonic
interface and the other is a Sony with the Sony interface (they both
originally came with the interfaces on SB16's so I don't have the interface
cards).

Does anybody know where I can obtain the interface specifications either of
these drives. I only need a few functions (all audio):-

Play, Stop & Select a track (and it would be nice to select a starting and
finishing frame on the track as well).

If anybody has already done this sort of thing It would be nice to talk
off-line about it.

Regards

Ben


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Ben Suffolk
New Media Technology Manager, Orange PCS Ltd

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