problems with sound :[

[eodyna]

Hi all

thank-you ohh so much for your help thus far!
It was indeed that little cable. When i looked it
didn't exist :) [not very good with hardware] i will
need to buy one and try that out!

thank-you so much. there are very knowledgable and
talented people here.

arigatou!
and thanks for the explanation danny!
--ams

 --- Danny MacMillan <flowers at users.sourceforge.net>
wrote: 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:56:54AM -0700, jason
> wrote:
> > Danny MacMillan wrote:
> > >On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 11:34:14PM -0700, eodyna
> wrote:
> > > >hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > >I can play mp3's :) but i cant seam to be able
> to play
> > > >cd's.
> > > >
> > > >any ideas?
> > > >
> > > >thanks again.
> > > 
> > > It seems likely that the tiny analog or digital
> cable
> > > between your sound card and your CD-ROM drive is
> not
> > > connected.
> > 
> > My cds play just fine without that cable.
> 
> There are two ways sound gets from the CD to the
> sound card.
> It can go directly from the CD to the sound card
> through the
> analog or digital cable connecting the two.  Or it
> can be
> read from the CD as data via the IDE interface and
> channeled
> to the sound card through the system bus in the same
> way as
> MP3s or any other digital sound information.  How
> the sound
> actually travels is a function of what application
> is used
> to play the sound.  The former is a more efficient
> use of
> system resources.
> 
> Since the original poster can play MP3s but not CDs,
> there
> are two probable candidates for failure.  The first
> and most
> likely is that the CD-ROM and sound card are not
> connected
> by that little cable, and that the original poster
> is using
> an application that just tells the CD-ROM drive to
> start
> playing instead of actually reading the music from
> the CD.
> The other and less likely is that the CD-ROM is not
> able to
> read the CD at all.
> 
> -- 
> Danny
>  

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