Try CDA player, Cubic PLayer, they all SEEMS (not quite sure) the audio cable d in to play Audio CDs... , am i right? could any software read the digital data through the pci bus (under MS-DOS)?
The easiest and non-problematic way is by using the CD audio cable. These cables are easy to get and are cheap.
I'm not sure if you are asking for knowledge purposes or trying to find out alternative working mode to the audio cable, but in my opinion, using a CD audio cable will be the most efficient and hassle-free option for playing CD Audio in DOS, and is superior (or the only way?) to address this problem.
MPXPlay, maybe?
If you want to read the digital portion to WAV files try CDDA.
For just playing there are a lot of programs to command the drive to playback CDs. Then the drive plays back autonomously. You have to use your specific sound cards mixer to enable playback from CD-In of your card.
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Under pure DOS, yes, you have to use the Audio CD cable to listen to Audio tracks. The only alternative I can think if is using the headphone out at the front and mixing it with an external mixer rather than the one on the sound card.
I have run into an IDE drive (quite new) that did have analogue outputs but simply wasn't compatible with playing Audio CDs. Likely not supported via firmware anymore.
The LED lights on the CD will blink in a certain way and the drive will also spin down. It's easy to notice when it's playing Audio tracks.
Thank you all guys. Yes, I have the cd spinning readind tracks, but no sound. Gonna soldering my own legacy cd audio to the SBPRO (it has different 4 pin order than the standar red-black-black-white) .
wrote:Thank you all guys. Yes, I have the cd spinning readind tracks, but no sound. Gonna soldering my own legacy cd audio to the SBPRO (it has different 4 pin order than the standar red-black-black-white) .
Wouldn't it be easier just to re-arrange the pins in the connector? It is often easy to pull out the individual wires by poking at it a little with a needle.
Thnk u!
