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Re: Playing a CD skips often



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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