When CD players were new on the scene, there was a cable you had to connect from the back of the drive to either your audio card, or a header for your onboard sound. I haven't seen those cables included with optical drives in a very long time, and I don't think I've had any legacy ones I kept transferring from old system to new through today, so if there is any such inside any current PC, I don't recall putting it there (and I haven't bought a readymade in about 20 years).
But I have a music system, separate from the TV, and from the DVD player (which includes an FM radio that I've hardly used). I've never tried playing music CDs through the rather mundane speakers attached to the PCs. I was talking to my sister, who is new to computing, and for whom I assembled a "low tech" (comparatively) PC for her to use, and she wanted to play music CDs using the CD-RW optical drive in her machine. Media Player (9) loads and shows the tracks being played, but nothing comes through the speakers. I couldn't talk her though finding out why not (she's 75 miles away, we have to do this sort of thing long distance on the phone, and so far, she doesn't even do eMail).
After hanging up, I carried a music CD around this place from room to room, and PC to PC. Three of them similarly show animation of the disc spinning, and show the tracks being played. There's no sound (not music). The fourth one doesn't seem to have Media Player, and is used for older game playing. It has Windows2000 and Windows98se on it. If that cable connecting the CD drive to something else is in there, I don't remember putting it in place. The CD plays without a hitch.
Do I have to drive all the way up there with one of those old CD connector cables to enable that PC to play music? It's a Biostar MB with a Via KT333 chipset, an AMD K7 2800 CPU, a GB of PC-2700 RAM, and that MB uses a C-Media onboard audio processor.
But I have a music system, separate from the TV, and from the DVD player (which includes an FM radio that I've hardly used). I've never tried playing music CDs through the rather mundane speakers attached to the PCs. I was talking to my sister, who is new to computing, and for whom I assembled a "low tech" (comparatively) PC for her to use, and she wanted to play music CDs using the CD-RW optical drive in her machine. Media Player (9) loads and shows the tracks being played, but nothing comes through the speakers. I couldn't talk her though finding out why not (she's 75 miles away, we have to do this sort of thing long distance on the phone, and so far, she doesn't even do eMail).
After hanging up, I carried a music CD around this place from room to room, and PC to PC. Three of them similarly show animation of the disc spinning, and show the tracks being played. There's no sound (not music). The fourth one doesn't seem to have Media Player, and is used for older game playing. It has Windows2000 and Windows98se on it. If that cable connecting the CD drive to something else is in there, I don't remember putting it in place. The CD plays without a hitch.
Do I have to drive all the way up there with one of those old CD connector cables to enable that PC to play music? It's a Biostar MB with a Via KT333 chipset, an AMD K7 2800 CPU, a GB of PC-2700 RAM, and that MB uses a C-Media onboard audio processor.
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