A quick question on an internal cable

[CidHighwind]

What is the cable called that goes from the CD drive directly to the motherboard or soundcard, that allows you to play an audio CD without it actually being "played" by any software?
I had a couple older computers that would instantly play whatever you put in them, wihtout bringing up media player, or winamp or whatever. It was strictly hardware, like a stereo system. Since then, I had it, and I miss the function. I found out there was a cable that does this, what is it?

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Welcome to 1992. It's called, drumroll please...Internal CD Audio Cable. It was used because audio data couldn't be transmitted through the motherboard. It went out with the headphone jack on CD drives. They are still usually packed in with new drives.

 

[CidHighwind]

It beats the hell out of opening winamp or whatever when you already are using most of your system resources.

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, I think you are saying that they play from an audio player, but not automatically when you put them into the drive. Auto Play may be turned off. Go through Control Panel, System manager, CDs and check "Auto Insert Notification". If that doesn't get it someone has turned it off in the Registry. Hope this helps a little, Jim