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I hooked up the 4 pin cable again - same thing. I cleared the "use digital
audio box " (messing with this all day)under drive properties also. Lots of
combinations - the result never changes. It's as if, by default, it uses the
IDE cable rather than this 4 pin cable ??
Ignoring the cable for a while...
If I open Explorer-rightclick-explore this CD then select a file and play:
It does CD activity for 10 seconds then I hear the first note of the
song,another 10 seconds....
meanwhile if I can get the attention of the original explorer window, it's
hung. I have to do an end process to close it.
When I look at task manager - there are 2 instances of WMP. I killed them
both but only one goes away.
What's that about ? Is it supposed to always be there ?
This is a brand new install - new machine last week. This is the first time
I've tried the Cda files.
I had installed Realplayer and Quicktime (Reason for getting XP was the
audio/video uses). I deinstalled Realplayer.
I didn't bother deinstalling Quicktime. In Quicktime there are no settings
to really mess with for .cda
I don't have another box to compare to, so the help is appreciated.


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> |
> | I had one in there - 4 pin CD to CD1 jack on the motherboard - same
thing.
> | It wasn't until tonight that I tried to use this Cd player for music. I
do
> | get internittent sound. I thought I needed that cable. Spent $5 for it
> today
> | (my old one had different end on it (tiny vs this one which is the same
on
> | both ends)) and the CD is the same either way. Does the .cda output go
to
> | this 4 pin cable ?
> | I couldn't figure how the factory CDRW works fine via the same IDE cable
> | (cda files too), but it does.
> | After I hooked up the new cable and cda files were bad, I figured to try
> it
> | wothout the cable - same thing.
> | Why / how does it require the 4 pin cable ?
> | Any setting I need to change ?
> | Thanks.
> |
>
> The issue here is playing digital audio vs. playing analog audio.
>
> Earlier CD-ROM drives and earlier operating systems only supported analog
> audio, which is what the 4-pin cable provides. You need to connect the
cable
> between the CD-ROM drive and the sound card.
>
> Newer CD-ROM drives and newer operating systems (like WinXP) support
digital
> audio, which is transfered over the IDE cable. No need to connect the
4-pin
> cable.
>
> Old CD-ROM drive with new operating system requires you to use analog
audio
> (so need the 4-pin cable). You may need to go to Control Panel for that
> CD-ROM drive, go to Properties and UNcheck "Enable Digital CD Playback".
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> SB
>
>