It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

A very small number of prototypes were made, badged as “Play Station,” and should ... Those Playstation CD-ROM drives were notorious for melting back in the day, so it’s no surprise they ...

When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player. This method is still the way audio CDs are played on a computer ...

See DVD player and CD-ROM drives. DVD-ROM Data DVD-ROM Transfer Rate X Rating (MBytes/sec) 1x 1.39 2x 2.77 2.4x 3.32 4x 5.54 6x 8.31 8x 11.08 10x 13.85 12x 16.62 16x 22.16 18x 24.93 20x 27.70 22x ...