Is there an application that...

[David G. Miller]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's a traditional system so the sound card is on the back of the case 
> > which sits in a desk and is a royal pain to get to.  That's the one down 
> > side of having a desk with a specific spot for a system.  cdplay seems 
> > to fit the bill.  I can spin CDs and listen using the drive's audio 
> > jack.  I just mute the sound card.  If I don't need to be under the 
> > headphones, I just un-mute the sound with no contortions trying to reach 
> > the back of the computer case.
>   
>
> That's why they make extension cables.  Add one long enough to have a 
> connector you can reach - or a splitter so both can be connected all the 
> time if the speakers have their own volume control that you can use. 
> You'll need that if you ever rip the CDs and play the files which is 
> much, much easier anyway.  I'm surprised the speakers don't have their 
> own headphone jack that mutes them - some very inexpensive sets do.
>
> -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
I'll probably pick up a "Y" and an extension the next time at one of the 
local audio or computer stores.  This just came up and it seemed absurd 
that I had everything I needed to be able to play a CD in the drive 
except a way to tell the drive to play the CD.

The next set of speaker I get *WILL* have a bypass headphone jack but 
these don't.  That's one of the things that has slowed down my hobby of 
ripping vinyl LPs.  Oh well.  Next time.

Cheers,
Dave

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