CD- ROM and audio cable

[nebulae80]

Hi I have a cd-rom and a cd-rw, I attached the audio cable of the cd-rom to the sound in of my Sound blaster Live! Value, and the audio cable of the cd-rw to the aux in of the sound card.

When I play cds in the cd-rw, there is no sound, but when I plug in my earphone to the jack infront of the cd-rom, there is sound. Is it something wrong with where I plug in the audio cable? there is another tad in, what is it.

Thanks!

 

[Shmorq]

I would first check to make sure nothing is muted in the volume contrls, and then check to see that the audio cable was plugged into the correct port on the Live! card.

 

[nebulae80]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I checked the mute buttons, but it seem that I cannot enable both the CD-Audio and the Auxiliary In at the same time. It is either one and not both. Can u help me again??

 

[Shmorq]

Hmmm.. that's strange. I have the Live! too, and I have everything unmuted.

Well, you won't need the auxiliary enabled unless you use it for something like a TV tuner card. Did it work while the CD Audio was enabled? And if you must have the Auxiliary working simultaneously with the CD audio, the only thing I can recommend is installing the newest drivers and hope that resolves the issue.

 

[rw120555]

Just to isolate the problem -- it sounds like you get sound ok from the cd-rom, right? SO plug its cable into the CDRW. If you still don't get music from the CDRW, that probably implies there is some sort of problem with it -- either it is defective or maybe it is muted.

If you get sound (which I suspect you will) then the problem probably has to do with your sound card hookup. Try plugging into different outlets.

I suppose another possibility is that the audio cable itself is bad.

When you say you can't enable both cd-audio and auxiliary at the same time -- is that for recording or playback? I don't think I could play music from both my drives simultaenously, but I have no trouble playing from one or the other one at a time.

I don't have a Live! card -- but, my dinky 3 year old sound card has no trouble playing music from either the CDRW or CDRom drive, so I'd be a little surprised if it can't be done on your system. Good luck.

 

[nebulae80]

Thanks, I can only unmute either cd-audio or auxilary one at a time for playback. I have the latest drivers and I cannot enable both.

 

[nebulae80]

Hi, I can finally enable both the auxilary in and the cd-audio, but when I play cds through the auxilary in of my cd-rw, the sound only comes out of the fron two of my 4 speakers. The speakers volume of all 4 are on. When I play cds through my cd rom, sound comes out through all 4 speakers.

 

[rw120555]

Glad you are making progress. I would keep the audio cables plugged in where they are on the sound card and reverse them on the cdrom and cdrw. If it continues to be the case that the cdrom plays thru 4 speakers and the cdrw plays through only 2, that indicates the issue is something about the cdrw. If, on the other hand, the behavior reverses (which is what I would expect) -- the cdrw now plays through all 4 and the cdrom plays thru only 2 -- then I think it probably indicates something about the sound card. Maybe aux-in can only play thru 2 speakers, or maybe you need to tweak some sort of setting somewhere.

Of course, you could always just use the same drive whenever you want to play music! But I know, it is nice to get these little bugs worked out.