> do you have to digitally connect your cd-rom drive to your
> soundcard to make
> use of the digital out on the soundcard?
Here's my experience with a Samsung 40X CDROM and an M Audio DIO2448. The
Samsung does have an S/PDIF (TTL level) header, but the problem is that it
does not produce a valid signal unless the drive is playing an audio CD.
This causes glitches when the drive starts playing or seeks to a new track.
The sound card *does not* remove these glitches. The only way to dub from
the CDROM via S/PDIF to the MD is to play the last few seconds of the
previous track and start recording at the beginning of the desired track.
There is reportadly a real-time CD ripping plug-in for winamp. CD ripping
is *not* a trivial task, since the CD data format and CDROM drives were not
designed to do it reliably. The performance you achieve will be highly
dependent on the drive model and CPU speed.
A standard CD audio drive with digital output is still by far the best
way...
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