On 18/02/2018 16:59, Bill wrote:
A friend has bought one of these Brennan devices that records all your
CD's to a 2TB hard drive. I've been trying to help him with it, first by
going to his house and getting it to work at all, then latterly by phone.

It has a Raspberry Pi mounted alongside another pcb. He had connected it
to his ethernet network by removing the back and accessing the connector
as suggested by the manufacturer. Space is terribly tight, and the back
is held on by two different types of screw. Reseating the back panel and
guessing which screws went where allowed the plugs to go in fully and it
worked.

After a day or two he started saying that it was taking at least 10
minutes to record each CD and that this rate he would be dead before his
huge CD collection was fed in. At this stage I remoted to him and
PuTTY'd from another machine into the Brennan, primarily to look up the
spec of the internal CD drive (it should be capable of 24x).

I am hopeless with Linux and have never used a Pi. hwinfo and lspci
don't seem to be supported, but dmesg seemed to work. The result
included the following lines. Should I be alarmed?

Â*[Â*Â*Â* 3.415877] FAT-fs (mmcblk0p3): Volume was not properly unmounted.
Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[Â*Â*Â* 3.432082] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex,
lpa 0x45E1
[Â*Â*Â* 3.436744] FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some
data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
[Â*Â*Â* 3.727554] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROMÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* MAT****A DVDRW UJ8A7AF
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[Â*Â*Â* 3.750785] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda
caddy
[Â*Â*Â* 3.750820] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20


Going off at a tangent, but relevant if the collection is mostly popular
rather than classical music. I have most of my CDs on a NAS drive (so
accessible anywhere around the house) and have half heartedly been
digitising the LPs (which is pretty time consuming).

However, I've just subscribed to Spotify (they had a cheap 3 month offer
before Xmas) and am starting to build up playlists for my phone, tablet,
and desktop. OK the digitising won't satisfy purists but it is good
enough for my late 60's hearing. I reckon it probably saves money over
buying stuff on name or reputation, and then finding out I don't like
it. Also gives the opportunity to go back and listen to stuff that I
never quite got round to buying.