Headphones pluged into CDRom

[Logan826]

I have a set of Kross CD player headphones. I pluged them into my LG CDRW 8160B and I also tried them in my Teac CDRW CD-W524E. Neither of these would produce sound from the headphones. Any Ideas...thoughts...suggestions ?
One note I do not have the cable between the mobo and the CDRWs. Sound comes from my speakers fine.
Thanks in advance,
Logan826

 

[redbeard1]

What sound are you trying to get? The only time you'll get sound from your cd head phone jack is when you put in a music cd and play it.

 

[Logan826]

Well, sort of. I'm was trying to play an mp3 CD through it. The sound came out of my speakers, but not the headphones.
Logan826

 

[redbeard1]

A cdrom has hardware to convert the normal music format to sound. So playing a regular music cd should get you sound out to your head phones. An MP3 is being decoded through the cpu, so the os is handling the music from that and playing it through the system speakers.

 

[Logan826]

Thanks redbeard, that sounded very good. LOL. Really though that cleared it up for me. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[zodder]

I had the exact same problem. Here's how I fixed it:

If you don't have an analog cable running from your CDRW to the sound card, you have to make sure that the "Enable Digital Audio" is NOT checked in both the Properties section of the drive (Mutlimedia>Hardware>"LG CDRW 8160B"/"CDRW CD-W524E">Properties - I don't have XP at work, but it is very close to that) AND in the audio player you are using (I assume you are using Windows Media Player). WMP ignores the system settings and only checks to see whether itself is enabling digital audio playback. It should work fine after that. LMK if that helps.

Here's my old thread about it