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10-13-2009, 08:48 PM
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No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
As the CD burner in my AmigaOne is near death, I headed over to MicroCenter after work to procure a new one. I was about to buy one of these when I noticed that engraved into the top of the drive case was a message saying something to the effect that the drive had no audio out support. The little key/legend that explains what all the pins are on the back of the drive showed [NA] for the audio cable header. Yet the pins and connector were present.
Anyone seen anything like this before? Is the message meaningless/erroneous? Why would the manufacturer waste money installing the components if they're not hooked up to anything? |
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10-13-2009, 08:58 PM
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sad moaning faced git
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
Drives (or PCs, really) have supported CDDA-out (I think it's called) via IDE forever, definitely makes more sense than a silly seperate cable for audio. (..in the PC world, at least, where everyone has tons of processor time to blow decoding PCM.) I imagine it'd be cheaper to make a CD drive that didn't need to decode audio itself and have a preamp and all that stuff.
Or maybe that batch of drives was just screwy and they sold them anyway.
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10-13-2009, 10:05 PM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
@ matt H:
It's been a while since you bought a CD drive, hasn't it?..... It's all about the Windows world these days..... |
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10-13-2009, 11:24 PM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
Yeah, I've been doing CDDA on my various PCs for...oh good lord, nine? Ten? years now.
...and yet I have a rat's nest of various types of CD Audio wires I can't bring myself to throw away! (I need professional help!  )
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10-15-2009, 05:50 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
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So these new drives only support CD audio over the data interface? I can't imagine the Amiga will be able to handle that in all cases. Am I SOL, or would a different/less cheap drive still support analog audio? There's nothing in the text description of the above drive that would have alerted me if I hadn't seen the actual unit in person. |
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10-15-2009, 05:58 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
just go on-line. There are tons of places selling old stock cd drive with audio out.
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10-15-2009, 08:06 AM
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sad moaning faced git
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
You know, I never even noticed when CD drives stopped coming with headphone jacks and volume controls on the front of them...
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10-15-2009, 08:07 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
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10-15-2009, 08:56 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
I dont see it as an issue. os3.9 will play audio cds fine.
Its not a massive CPU hog because there is no compression unlike MP3
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10-15-2009, 09:54 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
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..though, how does it handle the 44100hz 16 bit audio with only a Paula?
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10-15-2009, 10:21 AM
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Re: No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?
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