On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:00:01PM -0600, tripolar wrote: | Thanks | hooked up the cdrom drive to soundcard. | now enjoying "Tool" cd :-) | In the past( I think) I have listened to cd's without that cable. | any idea how that worked? Some cd player software simply sends commands to the drive to play the cd. This requires the drive's audio-out to be connected to the sound card's audio-in. The other option is for the software to extract the data from the cd, process it, and write it out to the sound card. This does not require a direct audio connected between the two. It also requires more complex software processing, and as a result more CPU and bus bandwidth to play. -- One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. Proverbs 11:24 www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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