=== The original message was multipart MIME === === All non-text parts (attachments) have been removed === ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Antoine Despujols=20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]=20 Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 1:49 AM Subject: question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I put a message in the minidisc forum untitled like that : How do I know = if my CDROM drive has a digital output? If it doesn't, do I need the = Xitel Storm Platinum? Thanks a lot for your answer ! I'd like to ask you a few more questions. This was my question last time : > I'm very interested in buying the Xitel Storm Platinum sound card that = has > got a digital output. Although I have a few MP3's on my computer, it = is more > to record from CD to minidisc than from MP3 to minidisc. So I if my = CDROM > drive doesn't have any digital output, there is no point buying a = digital > out soundcard because it would be analogue recording. Am I right ? If = so, I asked this question in another forum and I got 2 different answers : > Sort of. The most direct way is as you describe -- connect the digital > output of the CDROM drive to the input of the sound card, and record = from > there. However, Winamp has a plug-in that does on-the-fly digital = audio > extraction -- it plays the CD by reading the digital data directly and > outputting that to the sound card. So you can use that if your CDROM = has no digital output. What do you think about on-the-fly digital audio extraction ? Is it the = same sound quality with this software than with a completely digital = computer ? > Every CD-ROM drive has a digital output, the SCSI, IDE or whatever > connection will do the digital transfer into your computer. You just > have to have software to handle it. And a digital out soundcard to = handle the output. What do you think about that ? Thanks Cedric === MIME part removed : text/html; === _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
