sb-live and two cd-roms

[mdennison]

Is there some splitter that allows me to get sound from two cd-roms using my sb-live? Thanks

 

[Pederv]

What about the AUX input? Or does your SBLive have an internal AUX input? Making your own splitter may work, but back driving the unused CDROM's outputs may damage them - it depends on thier design.

 

[mdennison]

I belive there is a splitter that plugs into the card that has two 4-pin connectors but am not sure. I'll check on the aux thing but didn't see one when installing cdrw. Anyone else?

 

[sohcrates]

if one of your cd-roms has a digital out, just use that straight to your sblive

and use the analog out for the other

 

[llew]

this one will work.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/harbourtownsales/2cdsto1souns.html

 

[Zach]

I use the internal aux port.

 

[mdennison]

Thanks for the replys. I will try the aux when I get home tonight. 🙂

 

[MichaelD]

Check this out. I have one DVD/CDR and one CDRW. I use the DVD/CDR as my main drive because it's the faster (40x) of the two. The audio out (4-pin connector) from the CDR is plugged into my soundcard.

Just last week, I put an audio CD into my CDRW by mistake...wasn't really looking at what I was doing. As it started to spin-up, I said to myself; "self, that was dumb, you'll prolly get an error message on screen and no sound!" Much to my surprise, it started playing just fine. I didn't know it, but I guess you don't need the 4-pin connector plugged in to get sound off a CDR drive. I don't know the tech explanation for this, but I can tell you that I couldn't tell the diff in sound B/T the two drives. Thought I'd throw this one in the mix.

 

[bozo1]

<< I didn't know it, but I guess you don't need the 4-pin connector plugged in to get sound off a CDR drive >>



It's pulling the sound from the IDE cable like it does when you rip an audio CD.