How to get headphone audio?

[Ummon]

I want to use the headphone output on my cd drive but I get no sound. Windows sees the drive, and I have the 'audio' cable connected in back and to the motherboard. I've looked all through the bios and sound preferences in Windows, and even sent Asus a tech support request and haven't heard anything back. Does anyone know how to make this work?

[surface tension]

The headphone output is for CD audio... is this what you're trying to achieve? So, the cable you've connected is for streaming audio from the drive to the motherboard.

If you want to connect headphones, you'll have to use the line-out on your (integrated?) sound card.

[Ummon]

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?

[BobA]

Is the jack actually built into your CD drive?    Do you have the model and manufacturer of the CD drive?  Maybe a manual on the actual drive will explain what the jack is capable of.

I have only one drive that has a headphone jack and it will play CD audio only.  It also has a volume control that must be turned up to hear the CD.

[Ummon]

Yes, the jack is in the drive. The drive is some old Sony. I haven't looked it up because I thought it was a motherboard or system issue. I have looked at the motherboard manual, and it says 'CD' for the audio port. On other computers I have, the cable from it goes to the audio port on the back of the drive.

[metahacker]

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

[surface tension]

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?

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]

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.

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.