what is the fuction of the sound cable that attaches from the cd-rom drive to the sound card?
thanks
2006-07-17 12:35:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
I believe it is for when you play music CDs on your computer. Also, some video games may need this to play the sound effects as some games run off the CD rather than the hard drive
2006-07-17 12:37:08 · answer #1 · answered by trainboy765 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to play pure Audio CDs (not MP3, WMA or other computer only stuff) you need to connect this cable to your soundcard. All the CD Drives are by default audio cd players (not mp3 or other digital stuff) which you can listen by connecting a headphone to the headphone socket of the CD drive. The Audio CD is played and pre-amplified inside the cd drive, so you need to connect the cable to sound card to hear it, while mp3 and other formats are processed by CPU as files stored in CD media just like a file in your HardDisk.
2006-07-17 19:46:52 · answer #2 · answered by jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It passes the audio signal from audio cds to the soundcard so that you can hear the audio...sometimes this isn't necessarily needed and the song will pass through the data cable and be processed by the CPU...but the audio cable lets the sound be processed by the sound card
2006-07-17 19:39:40 · answer #3 · answered by Sliqua 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does nothing. In the old days, it used to allow you to play regular audio CDs in your drive like a regular CD player. However, nowadays, software like Winamp handles playing CDs, so it's pretty useless anymore.
2006-07-17 19:38:02 · answer #4 · answered by D14BL0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋