On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 21:36, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Take my "RICOH CD-R/RW MP7080A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive", which seems > to have difficulty often realizing that a cd had been inserted. > Anyway, say I retire it. Can it then play CDs without a computer > around? Yes, but the controls are very rudimentary. Plug a power supply into your CD drive, put a CD audio in the tray, plug headphones into the front panel jack socket, press "play" and you will hear the music. Sometimes, pressing "play" continuously will fast forward and pressing "play" just once skips one track. To stop, press the "eject" button. On top of the inconvenience, the output quality will probably suck. But nothing stops you from doing it.
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