Bj�rn Lindstr�m wrote:
Actually yea now that I've had time to think about it, the cable that goes from the CD-Rom to the sound card is usually a 3 or 4 wire cable, like you see in head phones, so based on that fact it has to be analog already. What about the ones that have 2-pin digital audio out and what about direct digital playback (i.g. ripping)?Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Yea kind, The sound card still has to convert the pcm data from the CD
into music and output it to the speakers though,
No, the CD-ROM does that and sends it to the sound card as a plain old analog audio signal, so the only part of the sound card that comes into play is the mixer.
The point is still mute though, you have to have at least a semi-functional sound card to get the mixer working.
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