Way to double up CD-Audio Cables?

[ChefJoe]

Looking for some advice. I have a SB-Live value card with only one specific cd-audio input but I have two cd-rom's that I'd like to have audio capability. I took two cables and soldered the ends into a single connector (homemade Y adapter) but that didn't work when both ends were plugged in (though it worked fine when a single end (either of them) was plugged in - which I suspect means that the signal is very low voltage. Any ideas on how to do this? in-line diodes?

 

[ScrapSilicon]

ChefJoe you were in the ballpark but there are stores that carry that cable...if you running XP I believe you can just digital your audio out(I'm not using any analog CD audio cables here both DVDRom and CDRW working fine)

 

[ChefJoe]

Directron

Crap, you're correct... that little box must have a few op amps and/or diodes in it.


Even worse is I tried the digital audio enable in win2k and sure enough, another one of my drives (a scsi dvd) works fine with this... I'd imagine the plex24X ide burner also has digital output. I thought you had to have an internal audio cable to use cd-audio but that's a stone-age belief I guess. Thanks for all your help!! Less case clutter too!

 

[Woodchuck2000]

There are other inputs on the Live card aren't there (I assume you're talking about the 4-pin internal connectors) you can just run a cable to the AUX input and un-mute it in your mixer. It makes no difference to the sound quality.

 

[ChefJoe]

thanks woodchuck, but when I tried that winamp wasn't able to play the cd for me... think it was specifically looking for the cd-audio connector to be the source.