New subject: New Build Updates & Questions (Avengers Assemble Update - Solved & Concluded)

24 Nov 2020

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  On 11/24/20 3:29 PM, deloptes via tde-users wrote:
 > Edward via tde-users wrote:
 >
 >> I have not yet put the card in, but had a thought... The sound cards
 >> from that era, have a jack where an audio cable connected it to the
 >> CD/DVD drive. Where the card would override the on-board audio once
 >> installed, would that audio cable still be necessary today, or would
 >> today's motherboards know to route the audio from the CD/DVD through the
 >> motherboard, directly to the sound card? I haven't actually looked at
 >> the back of the DVD drive to see if it even has that connection on it.
 >> That system is from 2009.
 > I do not think modern drives have it - you can easily diagnose it by
 > observing the front panel of the drive - if it has an audio jack, it can
 > independently play audio.
 >
 > Applications such as kscd would work with the data being read from the
 > drive. I do not know why Kate would say kscd needs an audio cable.
 > I guess kscd is able to control the drive (play/pause etc.), so that if  you
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   have a CD
player you could just tell it play and listen on the audio jack
 of the player. However it should be working as a player too - playing the
 cdrom. Last time I tried few months ago it worked nicely.  
 The drive does not have an audio jack on the front.

 ____________________________________________________ kscd will control the hardware
but it needs a optical drive to audio card 
audio cable to play the output. You can test it yourself.

I think Ed was talking about the back cable not the audio out front panel port 
some optical drive had. 

Kate

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