[H-GEN] CD (Playing) Problems

[James Mills]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:46:24PM +1000, Benjamin Carlyle wrote:
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> On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 14:55, Clinton Roy wrote:
> > And, to the best of my knowledge, you will need a dinky little cable
> > to connect your cdrom drive to your sound card.
> 
> While this was certainly necessary in "the olden days", it no longer
> appears to be. My understanding is that the cable you refer to provided
> direct analogue audio from the cdrom drive to the sound-card. These days
> the sound is most likely going to be passed via the CPU, and as I
> understand it that data flows in a digital form down the ide cable. If
> you "rip" in analogue mode that cable is required. If you do so in
> digital mode, I believe it is not.

This was my understanding too. As I have never had those cables plugged
in on any computer I have had.

cheers
James

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