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metahacker:
try right clicking on the drive, doing properties, and turning off digital audio extraction.
surface tension:

--- Quote from: Ummon on January 07, 2008, 05:33:42 pm ---I thought of that. I get no sound from the headphone out when playing a cd. I thought the IDE cable was for data and streaming, and the audio port on the motherboard was audio out to a front-mounted headphone port. The audio port on the back of the drive would be for this. No?

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The IDE cable is for data. The Audio cable is for playing CD-Audio directly out of your sound card/device.

I don't know why you can't play audio CDs straight out of the jack.

There is a setting in the properties to 'enable digital cd audio for this CD-ROM device' though this won't give you what you asking for.
Ummon:

--- Quote from: st on January 10, 2008, 03:17:28 am ---

The IDE cable is for data. The Audio cable is for playing CD-Audio directly out of your sound card/device.

I don't know why you can't play audio CDs straight out of the jack.

There is a setting in the properties to 'enable digital cd audio for this CD-ROM device' though this won't give you what you asking for.

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I don't know what this does, but I found no change when I unchecked it and restarted. I don't know why it won't play straight out the jack, either, but it's the same on two other computers I have. About the audio cable, if I disconnect it while playing a cd, I still get audio out the internal audio port. I notice in the volume properties that XP counts it as wave output. The CD audio slider does nothing.
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