On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:52:23AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 01:10:55PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > I have a Memorex CDRW-2216 that I'm trying to get working. Never mind > > that all I can do is make coasters with it. Right now, even playing an > > audio cd causes it to skip. I've tested it using the kscd player in KDE > > and workbone on the command line. Playing audio cds with either app > > causes skipping, sometimes occasional and sometimes frequent. Ripping > > tracks from the same audio cds works fine though. How should I proceed > > to troubleshoot my cd playing/skipping problem? > > Sounds like you're trying to play it on the IDE bus. Connect a CD > audio cable between your CD ROM and your sound card and make sure you > use analog mode instead of digital and you're good to go. Many > systems, for whatever messed up reason, haven't been shipping with CD > audio cables in the last few years. Never mind that audio playback > works extremely poorly without it, if at all. How do I switch from digital mode to analog mode? Is that a setting in the software or a jumper on the drive itself?
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