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In article <BvFusu.E3w@gate.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch) writes:
>In article <717915282snx@nuguk.demon.co.uk> paul@nuguk.demon.co.uk (Paul  
>Beaumont) writes:
>> Is it possible to play an audio CD through the internal speakers of the  
>NeXT?
>
>This has been commented on here recently.  I think the answer was no.

Well, the answer is actually yes, but it might not be what you would
really want to have :-(
If you say "play an audio CD through the internal speakers of the
NeXT" you probably mean also that it sounds as nice as CD-quality
sound played off the hard- or optical disk. The answer for that is no.

You can however attach a line-out-to-stereo-microphone-adapter-cable
and take the CD-ROM's line out and plug it into the NeXT microphone
plug. Then you pick up a utility called "radio" from the archives,
install it, read the manual and run it. And see there: you have your
CD sound out of your NeXT speaker, just it sounds like it went through
a noisy phone line with occasional drop outs. (After all you
successfully changed 16-bit linear stereo 44.1kHz sound into 8-bit
mulaw mono 8.1kHz sound....)

So although it is not a solution, it should be mentioned for the sake
of completeness...

Ronald



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