> do you have to digitally connect your cd-rom drive to your
> soundcard to make
> use of the digital out on the soundcard? i guess the sound would
> degrade to
> analog from cd-rom to soundcard wouldn't it? and this would therefore be
> pointless to have the digital out on the soundcard at all isn't
> it? thanks
>
> ----Matt
You don't *have* to have a digital connection between the CDROM and
soundcard to use the digital output, but without one you're converting the
signal from digital to analogue and back again before leaving the PC.
If you're recording from CD to MD and want to keep it digital, you could rip
the tracks to .wav files using a program like AudioGrabber (the first stage
of the MP3 making process), and play the .wav files.
There's a plugin for Winamp/Sonique that reads CDs digitally (kind of like
CD ripping in realtime), and doesn't use the analogue cable (nor do you need
a card with SP/DIF in). It's at:
http://www.url.ru/~copah/CDReader.htm
If you used that rather than a regular CD player program, it'd be a digital
signal all the way to the MD.
--
Simon
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