Hi

So I'm still confused...
My 'ideal' idea is something like that:
I have a free IDE connector on my empeg, and i think it would be quite easy to connect it to a laptop IDE CDROM, which i guess it has the same connector.
Now, the player would have another source selection wich would say 'CD', to read CD music or CD data (MP3), or even saving it to the HDD, controlling it as a standard Linux CD drive. I guess there are some CDROM drivers for Debian... CD music would be pre-saved in RAM to avoid craps, so player would have to read data through IDE channel instead of analog music through aux ins. I've seen some Linux CD programs to play music from a CDROM, would them be compatible?
I've seen some laptop CDROM drives, very compact and nice to install on my car dash. With that and the tuner kit I'd be able to forget my Pioneer...
Well I'm not such a Linux programmer, so I'm sorry if it sounds crazy...

Cheers:

Miguel