Can't access a music CD
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu Oct 13 00:54:25 UTC 2011
On Oct 12, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Polytropon wrote:
> On today's disc drives, you typically don't have a
> 3.5mm headphone connector for direct listening. Also
> some sound cards (unlike most onboard sound chips)
> have the ability to connect the "CD audio" wire inside
> the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works.
> It's typically not part of laptop designs.
A fair number of motherboards with integrated audio will take the analog audio output from a CD/DVD drive; the better ones will also accept a 3-pin digital SP/DIF connection as well. Even if they don't, however, it's not uncommon for them to have audio connectivity in the form of a microphone input buried within a 10-pin extension header (AC'97 and Intel's HD Audio front panel connector), rather than have a 4-pin or 3-pin connector which matches the cable which came with the CD/DVD drive.
Anyway, none of the above should not be needed with modern SATA devices-- digital audio data goes directly over the SATA cable without a need for a separate audio cable. Any laptop (which isn't obsolete) would use this route.
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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