if you don't have a cable from your cdrom to your soundcard then you will have problems, the traditional for computers to play audio cds was to transfer the sound in analogue form along a cable from the cdrom to the soundcard, even when cdroms first became capable of digital audio extraction and people strated ripping mp3s etc. this was still the case, though in some case instead of an analogue cable a digital transfer was made but still using a special cable (both drive and soundcard have to support this), but now, later versions of windows transfer audio data from audion cds via the data bus in digital form, personally i think that there is some merit to this but it does mean that oem systems integrators like to save the small amount of money that omitting a cable brings, as far as i know the standard linux way of playing audio cds is still to use the analogue/digital cable, i have yet to hear of a cdrom/dvd that doesn't have the connector for this cable or of the soundcard that doesn't have the connector, your solution would seem to be to purchase and fit one! here in the uk they can be had for about £4.00 you will need to check your drive to see what outputs you have are on the back and check your soundcard as well bascule
On Friday 25 January 2002 9:36 pm, you wrote: > > I can't understand what does it mean what a fellow wrote some days ago, > that one should look if audio cable is connected from cd to soundcard-I > don't have audio cables or jacks and audio cds work under > windows-i-am-trying-to-leave-but-it-looks-hard.
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