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"Jeff Cahill" <jlcahill@homemail.com.au> wrote in message 
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> how do you get sound out of the ear phone jack on the front of the cdrom


it only comes out there when you get a  CD player program to instruct the 
cdrom to play the tracks,
in emulation of a stand alone audio cd player.


Programs like "Windows Media Player" and "winamp" may have the option to 
play audio cd's two ways.


1. by issuing a single instruction to the cd/dvd drive to play.
  the cd then plays and sound is available on the analog output at the front 
(headphone) and the back little 4 pin connector that connects to your sound 
card (if theres a cable doing that!).

2. by reading the data from the cd using many instructions and the program 
can then process the sound (equalise,  filter, etc) then play out the sound 
card (even if there is no direct cable between sound card and cdrom )

For Windows Media Player - In windows xp, go to
control panel, sound & audio devices, hardware, then double click on the cd 
drive in question and go to 'properties' and  untick 'enable digital CD 
....'  there.


For other cd players, its up to the cd player software ..   may in 
'options', thats the typical place for such an option :)