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Grex Hardware Item 150: CD drive for sound output
Entered by jep on Tue Apr 7 17:35:28 UTC 1998:

Maybe this is kind of a dorky question.

Is it possible to use the headphone jack on a CD ROM drive as the sound 
output for your computer?  I'm interested in using RealAudio at work 
from the CD ROM drive.  There's no sound card in my computer.

Thanks!

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#1 of 2 by scott on Wed Apr 8 00:39:26 1998:

Almost never is this possible.  The headphone jack is just from the CD audio,
with no link to play anything else.  You'd need a sound card.

However, you *could* use recordable CDs (with an appropriate recording drive)
to make CDs of what your non-existent sound card might be playing, then play
those back on the CD-ROM drive.  ;)

#2 of 2 by jep on Wed Apr 8 14:05:16 1998:

Oh, well.  It seemed worth asking.

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