If I understand what you plan to do, why do you need a computer at all. You
need a CD player with a digital optical output.
What you are doing isn't digital audio extraction if you are using the digital
output of your sound card. You are just making a digital copy of the CD on to
MD.
BTW, I don't know exactly where it is , but if your CD ROM drive has the right
connectors, you can tap into it and get a digital optical output even if your
sound card does not.
Check the community page. I think Sean Lynn had it. He suggested a red LCD,
but you really should use a TOSlink transmitter. Basically it is an LED with
the correct shape on its plastic body to plug a TOSlink cable into.
I bought 2 from someone on the list (Sweets???). If your CD ROM drive has the
proper pins on it, you can carefully cut a hole in one of the unused covers for
a drive bay. Best to use a heated knife or you might be able to find the right
shape tip to fit on a soldering iron.
Larry
Ronald Vargo wrote:
> I know this is a odd question but I know someone has to have the answer. We
> have two options to get pure digital out of our CD-ROM drives. Digital
> Audio Extraction via the IDE or SCSI interfaces or the Digital Out if
> supported on the drive and if you have a audio card that supports this like
> I do.
>
> Anyway most of the software products seem to want to extract via the
> IDE/SCSI interface. This turns out to be mostly compatible with midrange
> CD-ROM drives but still produces pops and clicks occasionally.
>
> The Digital Audio out port is more complicated because even if it is labeled
> on your drive it is usually not implemented. Also many software packages
> don't work with the CD-ROM drive when you select the sound card method of
> extraction and storage. This in theory would produce the best digital output
> from the CD-ROM.
>
> My goal is to use the optical connector of my sound card to connect to the
> MiniDisk recorder and some type of digital playback software to control the
> CD-ROM and audio output.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron Vargo
>
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