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Headphone socket

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 10:00 am
by 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?

Re: Headphone socket

PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:52 pm
by BillyG
lee wrote: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.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:14 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 1:54 pm
by 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.

PostPosted: Fri Feb 13, 2004 3:59 am
by pranav81
Dear lee,
Hi,Use a software like CDeX to play the CD.


::Pranav::