Controlling CD mechanism with arduino uno

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Hello everyone!
I have a project in mind, i salvaged an working CD mechanism form an Phillips AZ1226 stereo boombox thing, here is it's service manual:

I want to use that mechanism to play MP3 files and audio CD's
The problem is this way:
I do have the radio's board available, still haven't trashed it, in the schematic you'll see 3 i2c lines that come from the main processor and go to something else, i could use those pins if possibile to control it, i don't know how, if possibile, i need your advice (or libraries if there's any)
I could ditch the CPU, keep the control chips, i could control those if possibile (i need your advice here as well)
or i could just simply wire up the cd mechanism head and the 2 normal DC motors to my arduino and control it this way, wich also i don;t have an ideea yet.
What i want i find it straight on, i want it to play CD's it could have it play on it's own or connect it to a PC in order to play throuhg it.
But why?
I have disks laying around with really good music
My internal DVD drive of my laptop isn't working at all
And the most important thing i want to learn, arduino as well as electronics because i'm into both.

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Maybe someone else can give you some suggestions... I can't help you with that. The only way I'd attempt is if it was working well-enough that I could replace the buttons with Arduino-controlled relays.

Did the boombox play MP3s before? If not, you'd need an MP3 decoder chip (or something more powerful than the Arduino). And, you might need a different controller chip for the drive (accessing a computer file is different from accessing an audio track).

My internal DVD drive of my laptop isn't working at all

You don't need a CD/DVD drive to play MP3s. If you have access to a working computer you can rip the CDs to MP3 (or FLAC, etc.).

Or you can replace the broken drive for less than the price of an Arduino, and you'd be done the same day you get it!