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On Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:51:04 +1300, "cowboy" <cowboyz@actrix.gen.nz>
wrote:

>Right..  I am having trouble with the cdrom.  If I play a music cd I can not
>hear it through the speakers.  I can however hear it if I plug a headset
>into the jack on the cd rom itself (not the jack on the soundcard)
>
>My sound works with all my games and win 95.  Has anyone got a clue what
>this could be?
>
>ps.. I have had the machine apart and the cable from the cd to the sound
>card is in tact.

Well it may be intact, but it seems pretty obvious that it's not
working. If you can hear the CD playing when you plug earphones into
the jack on the drive, then clearly the drive *is* playing the CD. And
that cable that connects the drive to your soundcard should be taking
the analogue audio signal and putting it directly into the analogue
part of your soundcard for output to your speakers. So... if you're
not hearing anything... well we know your drive is working, so either
the cable is not plugged in properly at both ends or is damaged, or
your soundcard is broken.

BTW, even if you can't hear CDs playing, you should still be able to
rip from CDs, so long as you are ripping digitally (i.e. using Digital
Audio Extraction), since DEA doesn't use the analogue connection
between your CD drive and your soundcard at all...

>this problem has only become apparent since I am trying to make mp3.   I
>have tried several mp3 makers and I  get a read error all the time.  I am
>sure that it is because my cd rom  is not co-operating with the rest of my
>system.

Well what program are you using to rip? Have you got it set up for
Digital Audio Extraction? If you're trying to do analogue rips, that
certainly won't work if the analogue transfer from your CD drive to
your soundcard isn't working. But a "read error" sounds more like a
*digital* extraction problem.  It's possible that your CD drive
doesn't support DAE - some older drive don't...

Xorys

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