How to connect two CD drives to sound card

[georgeg]

I recently added a CD-R/RW drive to my wifes computer. The drive came with a cable to hook the audio output to the sound card. Now the computer already had a DVD-ROM drive in it which was connected to the sound card and there was no place to connect a second audio cable. Is there any way to connect two drives to the one connection on the sound card? Is there such a thing as a Y audio cable and if so, where would I find one?

 

[PrincessGuard]

If you have Win2k/XP, you can use "Digital CD Playback" where you don't need to connect another cable to your sound card.

The setting is in Control Panel->Sounds & Multimedia->Hardware->(your CD-ROM drive)->Properties.

Are you really going to listen to CDs on both drives though?

 

[Jackal&Cash]

what kind of sound card do u have? creative sblive, turtle beach, hercules. Most sound card have an Auxiliary connector on the sound card so that u could connect another audio cable to.

 

[LED]

Although the cables usually are no longer needed if you want to then you can get These and run both or make your own by splitting a pair.

 

[georgeg]

The machine in question runs Win98. Its my wifes machine. I won't actually be listening to both CDs at once but when making a backup copy of a music CD, it should be faster to use the CD-R drive than the DVD-ROM drive. I use MusicMatch for ripping and it apparently requires the source drive to be hooked up to the sound card. (I'm having some problems using MM on this computer which the people at MusicMatch are trying to help me fix). Generally speaking what I do is rip two or three music CDs and then combine them onto one CD-R to play in the car.

LED...
Where do you get that cable?

 

[PrincessGuard]

You do not need to connect the CD-ROM to the sound card to rip music. Unless MusicMatch records in real time (which is retarded), Digital Audio Extraction does not even require a sound card.

Check out the FAQ.

 

[LED]

LED...
Where do you get that cable?

Plenty places have em...that 1 was from www.pccables.com