>As the subject says, Anyone knows how or where to find information for
>play music (cd audio) with a cdrom drive (without a computer :-)?.
>
>What kind of commands, and if neccesarily I need a IDE controller to do that,
>my idea is to make an audio CD deck using a pic, an inexpensive LCD display
>and a standard CDROM drive.

That's easy.

http://www.mp3ar.com

It uses a 16c64 or something like that.

Just leave out the mp3 decoding and don't ever put in a cd full of mp3's.
Or strip out what you don't want from the schematic and source code and
assemble!

Cheers,

Bob