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About LinkBacksOlder drives used to come with a audio jack and audio output pins on the rear along with play fwd/rew buttons on CDROM drives to play audio cds. Now the newer drives do not have a play button. Then whats the use of the audio output pins?
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Audio output pins on CDROM useless without a Play button??
Older drives used to come with a audio jack and audio output pins on the rear along with play fwd/rew buttons on CDROM drives to play audio cds. Now the newer drives do not have a play button. Then whats the use of the audio output pins?
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If you turn off digital output in your OS, the sound is played through that.
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It is best if you use digital, as if you are doing something like ripping a CD to your hard drive, you may pick up noise from your system, plus you'll be removing digital error correction.
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And sometimes it's more easy to imput the headphones into the front of your computer than reaching all the way to the back.
Interesting problem really :O
(Do they still have volume controls on the newer CDROMs?)
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