Headphone socket

[lee]

The headphone sockets on my 2 Plextor drives don't seem to work & neither did the ones on my previous drives.

Sound through external speakers, seperate soundcard, is fine.

Does anyone know what the problem is as I would like to use headphones?

[BillyG]

The headphone sockets on my 2 Plextor drives don't seem to work & neither did the ones on my previous drives.

Sound through external speakers, seperate soundcard, is fine.

Does anyone know what the problem is as I would like to use headphones?

I never use the headphone outputs on the drives. Using the soundcard sounds far better. Buy a pair of powered speakers with a headphone jack or get a Y adapter that splits the output of the soundcard to your PC speakers and one for your headphones.

[TheWizard]

What sound are you trying to listen to through the headphone jack in your CD-ROM drive? The headphone jack will only work for a disc that has audio on it. You cannot plug in headphones to your CD-ROM drive and expect to hear MP3's playing from your hard drive, that's what a sound card is for. To listen to CD's using the headphone jack on the CD-ROM drive, you may need to connect an audio cable from the back of the CD-ROM to the CD-In on your sound card.

[lee]

Am only trying to listen to CD's in the drives.

Both drives have audio cables connected to the soundcard, one analogue & one digital.

BillyG.

Hadn't occured to me to try the splitter idea. This will suffice as all I am trying to do is avoid unpluging the speakers when I want to use phones.

[pranav81]

Dear lee,
Hi,Use a software like CDeX to play the CD.


::Pranav::