audio cd

[JB]

It ended up being the cable. It had a 4 pin with a
keyed clip and the only place it would clip in was on
the mother board. There was also 2 different 4 pin
sets on the sound card but no markings as to which way
to put the clip. That was the problem, the audio goes
directly out of the cd thru the sound card. It figures
that out of 2 places on the mother board and 3 places
on the sound card to plug in the audio cable, the only
one which actually matched the clip wasn't the right
place. Ahhhh, Murphy's Law at it's finest. I suppose I
could have avoided that problem by buying a pre-built
computer, but there is no fun in that.
I appreciate all the comments, they gave me the clues
I needed to find and fix the problem.
Hopefully in a couple of days I will be online with my
Linux box.
JB

--- green_man <green_man at bluefrog.biz> wrote:
> JB wrote, On 10/02/03 10:07 AM:
> 
>  >I have to revise my symptoms which you brought to
> my
>  >attention. I put in an audio cd, it autostarts and
> on
>  >the track list there are 13 tracks like on the cd
> but
>  >none of them play. When I tried mounting at that
> point
>  >I got the wrong fs type error message which makes
>  >sense now that you mentioned how the audio cd is
> just
>  >played. It is kind of like the audio from the cd
> is
>  >getting cut somewhere. Then again I can play wav
> files
>  >from the same cd drive, works fine with waves.
> Hmmm,
>  >I'll have to tinker around with it later.
>  >Thanks,
>  >JB
>  >
>  >
> So if I have this right, you have a drive that
> works, and a player 
> prog that works [the elapsed time for a track
> changes] , but zero 
> output to the speakers for .cda
> JJ was right, you don't mount audio cds, they are
> stored in a 
> "differnt language" than data, and have to be
> "translated" by the 
> Analog Digital Converter, which is what rippers use
> to make the 
> "raw" music into wavs or mp3s.
> In the spirit of "check the cable" , check your
> sound mixer to 
> make sure the slider for CD Audio isn't
> inadvertently set to 
> minimum or muted.
> It does happen , BTDT.
> 
> 
> -- 
> The sole purpose of my life is, apparently, to test
> my sanity.
> 
> Scott
> Netscape 7.0 on Win 98 SE
> 
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