If I understand what you plan to do, why do you need a computer at all. You
need a CD player with a digital optical output.
What you are doing isn't digital audio extraction if you are using the digital
output of your sound card. You are just making a digital copy of the CD on to
MD.
BTW, I
I know this is a odd question but I know someone has to have the answer. We
have two options to get pure digital out of our CD-ROM drives. Digital
Audio Extraction via the IDE or SCSI interfaces or the Digital Out if
supported on the drive and if you have a audio card that supports this like
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