FC4 no longer plays CDs

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 03 December 2006 17:30, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> Even though it may be securely attached, it may not be a good cable.
> They do sometimes break. That is why I asked about trying another
> cable. 

I'll dig another one out, just in case.

> Also, if the drive has a headphone jack, then you should be 
> able to plug in a set of headphones and hear the CD when you try and
> play it in the analog mode. If you don't get sound through the
> headphones, then chances are you will not get sound over the cable.
>
I've used digital in the past, but now I can't get anything at all in digital.  
When I select 'pay direct' I can hear it on the headphones, but not through 
the speakers.

> I suspect that you were playing the sound using the analog cable,
> and not digital audio when using the front panel buttons. 

That was on hdd, which doesn't have a cable.

> When using 
> the buttons on the drive, you are using the drive electronics to
> convert the digital data on the disk, and send the sound the cable
> from the drive to the sound card, as well as the headphone jack on
> the drive. When you play in the digital mode, you are sending the
> information over the IDE cable and using software on the computer to
> send it to the sound card. (There is also a digital output on some
> drives that works at the same time as the analog cable, but most
> people do not have the cable to use it, and only some sound cards
> support it.)
>
It would never have occurred to me to try playing it from there, but David hit 
the button by mistake, and discovered that it would play.

> In XMMS, you have the option of using the CD audio, or digital
> extraction. When I use digital audio, I guess I should be using
> digital extraction instead. 

Where's that setting, Mikkel?

> This mode reads the digital data from 
> the CD, and sends it to the sound card the same way you play .wav or
> .mp3 files. This mode works even if there isn't an audio cable from
> the drive. It also works if the digital to analog converter on the
> drive is broken. It may also give better sound quality, depending on
> the DtoA converter on the drive, and the sound card.
>
Anne
> --
>
>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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