Cannot hear music through headphones

[Guest]

Just upgraded from 2k to XP Pro.
I used to be able to plug headphones into my CD-ROM jack and listen through
them to eithier a web cast or a cd. Now when I plug into the headphone jack
on the CD-ROM I don't hear anything from eithier the CD-ROM or web cast.
There where no hardware changes and all cables including audio cable are
connected properly. I can hear the web casts and CDs fine through my PC
speakers. There are no error messages.

 

[Guest]

didnt have to post 3 times under 2 different names. just do it once and wait,
you might not get an answer right away. anyway, you may have to reinstall or
update your cdrom drivers, or firmware if you can. otherwise i dont have much
experiance with that. just play it through your speakers, or hook your phones
into the back. if you want two things playing at once, either use your
motherboards built in sound jack or a second sounds card and desigante which
programs to use which output.

 

[Guest]

Yes sorry did not mean to poest 3 times. Tried to post and was told there
was an error posting so I tried 2 more times. the 3rd time was sucessful but
then I noticed all 3.

My bad.

 

[Guest]

yea they take about a minute to register and appear

 

[Phil]

Windows XP sets all CD ROM devices, by default, to extract the CD music
digitally and play it through your sound card's DACs. You can change this
behavior by going into Device Manager and selecting DVD/CD-ROM drives, then
selecting properties, then properties again for the drive in question. You
will see a check box for digital playback and you can uncheck it. This will
give you CD music sound from your CD ROM headphone jack. Depending on the
player software being used, you may have to also turn off digital playback
in the player. If your drive has it's own controls for handling music disks,
you can use those and not even run any Windows software to play disks, as I
do myself.
I'm wondering though, how you were able to get Internet Radio through your
CD ROM jack. There is no way possible that I know of for anything from your
computer to go "backward" into your CD ROM drive to be decoded and played
through it's headphone jack. Hmm.....

 

[Guest]

Thankyou for your reply. I do no know much at all about my new pc and the
windows xp program. My next question is, "Can I listen to any music wheather

 

[Guest]

I am really walking through this process. I only have a pc and the windows xp
software installed. I have not purchased any other attachments. I want to
know from the basic new setup point, Can you listen to music from anywhere
without speakers?, and if so How?

 

[» mrtee «]

You need speakers of some sort to convert the electrical impulses (power) to
sound waves.