4 Jul
2003
4 Jul
'03
6:49 a.m.
On Thursday 03 July 2003 22:43, Ryan Underwood wrote:
Programs like cdparanoia and EAC operate as digital
rippers, using the
cdrom's built in mechanisms to extract the audio data directly. There
are other programs however (such as cdsound-recorder) that will play the
disc through your CD drive's built in DAC, and record the sound through
your soundcards ADC input. Or, you can use a standalone CD player for
the same effect.
Wow. They do this using that unsheilded wire on a ribbon cable that goes from
the CD rom drive to the sound card? I never bothered connecting the two on
any of my PCs, because if I wanted to play audio CD's, I certainly would
want to do it on my seperate stereo system, and not from a noisy PC.
Has anyone on this list actually made serious use of a CD-rom to soundcard
analog connection? The idea sounds stupid to me, but maybe the noise issue
isn't nearly as bad as I think it would be.
Larry