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Re: locating an analog audio cable

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Haines Brown wrote:
> I need one of those simple wires that runs from a CD drive to the sound
> card in order to play CD audio disks.

If you want to play CD audio disks, I'd suggest to use a player that can
read the audio data digitally and play it over the sound card, like, e.g.,
"mplayer cdda://".

> I find these analog wires a nuisance because they are not standard in
> terms of their connectors.

There was a connector standard, eventually, but nowadays the standard is
to omit this cable.

> Is this a dated technology and newer CD drives don't require the wire
> to audio CDs?

Computer makers did not bother with this cable since about the time of
Windows 95, which used only digital audio extraction.


Regards,
Clemens

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locating an analog audio cable Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-06 13:24 -0500
  Re: locating an analog audio cable Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> - 2011-12-06 21:46 +0100
  Re: locating an analog audio cable J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2011-12-06 20:56 +0000
    Re: locating an analog audio cable Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2012-02-16 10:38 -0500
      Re: locating an analog audio cable J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-02-16 17:31 +0000

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