On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 10:00:01PM -0600, tripolar wrote: | Thanks | hooked up the cdrom drive to soundcard. | now enjoying "Tool" cd :-) | In the past( I think) I have listened to cd's without that cable. | any idea how that worked?
Some cd player software simply sends commands to the drive to play the
cd. This requires the drive's audio-out to be connected to the sound
card's audio-in.
The other option is for the software to extract the data from the cd,
process it, and write it out to the sound card. This does not require
a direct audio connected between the two. It also requires more
complex software processing, and as a result more CPU and bus
bandwidth to play.
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another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.
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