They have phone and SPDIF i/o and you can also copy the contents of a CD to the internal hard disk.
You can have a maximum of 16 playlists on the HDD and each playlist can have a number of songs in it, I can't remember how many now but it is a significant number.
Alesis stopped making these eons ago, but they still turn up on the usual 'pre-loved' sites and at reasonable prices. Erm - I just checked on eeebHay, WOW the prices have shot up Might be worth keep checking though
I have found mine to be very reliable (fingers crossed )
punkyfish wrote: ↑Thu Feb 02, 2023 8:20 pm
Hi,
I want to hook up a CD player to our mixer but need help with:
1. A relatively cheap CD player that will do the job playing backing tracks
2. What cables I need to be able to do it
Am based in UK, thank you for any help
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I have a Yamaha MG8x, and I use an RCA cable to hook the player to, and it works great!!!
A headphone socket is an output rather than an input, but yes, it should. As Wonks said above, you'll need a lead with a 3.5mm jack at one end and two RCAs at the other.
I'd replay tracks stored* on a phone or mp3 player. You'd need a 3.5mm mini jack to dual RCA-phono plug lead to run from the player's headphone output to mixer input.
If the mo3 player has a usb-c input, will a usb-c to rca work as well? Thanks
USB is a digital connection and the headphone socket analogue. A USB C to dual phono lead must have a D/A converter built in. You are more likely to find a USB C to 3.5mm TRSF socket though.
* Unless, I suppose, it is SP/DIF I/O or a video format but I've never seen one of those.
punkyfish wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:39 pm
Struggling to find a CD player
There are lots on eBay, from £20.00
CD Recorders too.
Might be worth checking out charity shops, the one local to myself has them in each week, though the majority tend to be those mini-bookshelf 'music centres' you could still detach the tuner and whatever and just use the cd player
punkyfish wrote: ↑Fri Feb 03, 2023 7:39 pm
Struggling to find a CD player
There are lots on eBay, from £20.00
CD Recorders too.
Might be worth checking out charity shops, the one local to myself has them in each week, though the majority tend to be those mini-bookshelf 'music centres' you could still detach the tuner and whatever and just use the cd player
Yup!
This time last year I helped dispose of the gear of a late friend (Covid victim).
There were 4 or 5 CD-players/recorders... and good ones too!
I had no trouble disposing of them via eBay, even though I'm reasonably rural and it was 'Buyer Collects'.
(A word of caution on the mini-systems. Some of the ones I've seen that appear to be 'separates' use proprietary 'all in one' - mains and signal- interconnects between the units, so not easily used in standalone mode.)
As has been said, CD players are prone to vibration issues. You can live with the occasional glitch if just for interval music, but not during performance if it’s a backing track.
Which is why if you must go CD, I’d suggest a portable ‘Discman’ style one (normally round). These at least would be designed to cope with a certain level of vibration on the move and have a much larger internal read-ahead data buffer than a domestic hi-fi CD player so that they can play back from the buffer whilst the device tries to re-read any disc data lost due to the player being shaken.
But as has been said, a phone or tablet is a much better playback device for playing backing tracks and that’s what I’d use.
Might be worth keep checking though
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