On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:46 -0600, Harrison Cooper wrote:
> Client has an audio track on a CD recorded in Dolby 5.1 for this project,=
 so the first pass to just "get some audio playing" was to use the FTDI VMU=
SIC2, but the audio was moved to MP3 format and L/R stereo output.  It work=
s but.....he wants to play the track in its original surround format, so I =
have some choices
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> 1. Put an IR transmitter in front of his amplifier and send commands to p=
lay the CD or from a USB stick
> 2. Get a stand alone player that has a serial interface (hopefully) to pl=
ay the track on demand and has digital (S/PDIF) to feed to the amplifier
> 3. Find some sort of embedded audio player that can accept serial command=
s.
> 4. Use a CD player that has S/PDIF coaxial out and interface with a PIC t=
o control it.
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>     I'd be happy with a stand alone player as long as I can just send som=
e sort of command to start playing the one track that's on the media.  I do=
n't want to have to hack into the box in the event it fails...they just put=
 a replacement in, plug in the serial cable..back in business.  If the play=
er could be configured to auto play on powerup...I can control that easily.
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> This is a smallish run product, 100 or so per year.

Raspberry Pi combined with a 5.1 USB sound card?

TTYL

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