No, I didn't mean "to put the music on the Hard Drive". I meant that the audio CDs started playing from an EXTERNAL Cd driver through the PowerBook speakers.
My question was: Can an older PB do this or needs some newer software and/or hardware?
That's a good question, and one to which I honestly don't have a firm answer. It is definitely a function of software, though. Go figure that USB CD drives can play audio over the USB cable (digital playback as opposed to analog playback). The SCSI bus ought to handle that sort of bandwidth. Then again, it might be that because older books don't support SCSI Manager 4.3 (the 3400 should, though), they might choke on digital audio for some reason.
It shouldn't have anything to do with the drive itself. Digital audio is digital data, and the drive treats it like it would any other data CD when the audio is accessed as digital audio and not analog audio. So any drive that can access data CDs should support this feature (if your Mac supports it, anyway).
I _THINK_ Toast can play CDs back as digital audio (reading the data off the CD, feeding it across the SCSI bus, and decoding it in the CPU as digital audio) as opposed to having the CD-ROM drive decode the CD and play it back as analog audio. I'm pretty sure that AppleCD Audio Player will not do this over the SCSI bus (though it does with USB drives, go figure). Apple CD Player (not AppleCD Audio Player) _might_ be able to do digital playback... Some MP3 players that support CD playback have an option to do digital playback. I think Audion is in this camp...
On a slightly unrelated note, when I've tried to "pass through" audio from an external source (through the line in, then back out the speaker port), the sound is very choppy on my 5300... I never did figure that one out, though I've got a hunch it's got something to do with the funky sample rate the Singer chip uses.
Anyway
Peace, Drew
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