Is there an application or method (e.g., command the drive to "play audio") that lets me spin an audio CD in my CDROM drive and listen via headphones plugged into the drive's audio jack?
The speaker setup I have plugged into my primary desktop does not provide a bypass audio jack. Unfortunately, this means I need to become a hermit and close up my office if I want to listen to tunes while my wife watches the tube. I find the sound quality acceptable using the audio jack on the CDROM but I need a way to spin the disk and NOT have the sound come out the sound card.
Thanks, Dave
On 3/30/07, David G. Miller dave@davenjudy.org wrote:
Is there an application or method (e.g., command the drive to "play audio") that lets me spin an audio CD in my CDROM drive and listen via headphones plugged into the drive's audio jack?
The speaker setup I have plugged into my primary desktop does not provide a bypass audio jack. Unfortunately, this means I need to become a hermit and close up my office if I want to listen to tunes while my wife watches the tube. I find the sound quality acceptable using the audio jack on the CDROM but I need a way to spin the disk and NOT have the sound come out the sound card.
Thanks, Dave
Possibly a dumb question, but does the CD-ROM have a "play button" on the device? IIRC, the ones with headphone jacks usually do. Also, check alsamixer for any muted channels (and maybe mute the channels for the sound card?).
Just a guess, Chris
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:02 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
I find the sound quality acceptable using the audio jack on the CDROM but I need a way to spin the disk and NOT have the sound come out the sound card.
I would have thought that the obvious thing to do would be to turn down the CD audio channel on the sound card mixer. That only affects the sound card, it doesn't affect the DAC in the CD drive, itself.
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 19:02 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
Is there an application or method (e.g., command the drive to "play audio") that lets me spin an audio CD in my CDROM drive and listen via headphones plugged into the drive's audio jack?
The speaker setup I have plugged into my primary desktop does not provide a bypass audio jack. Unfortunately, this means I need to become a hermit and close up my office if I want to listen to tunes while my wife watches the tube. I find the sound quality acceptable using the audio jack on the CDROM but I need a way to spin the disk and NOT have the sound come out the sound card.
Thanks, Dave
What stops you from plugging a headphone into the output jack of your audio card.
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