| From: | Kevin Fairhurst |
| Date: | 15 Mar 2001 at 08:51:37 |
| Subject: | Re: OS39 PlayCD has no sound? |
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Richard" <basshead@blue-lagoon.com.au>
>--- In amigactive@y..., "Kevin Fairhurst" <redvers@a...> wrote:
>
>> You ARE plugging your speakers into your CD player, right? Playing
>> an audio CD in the drive will NOT pass the sound through the amiga's
>> sound circuitry. You either have to plug the CD drive into a sound
>> card (pedant's note: or a picasso4's sound input) and plug speakers
>> into that, or you plug speakers/headphones into the socket on the
>> front of the CD drive.
>
>Well that explains a great deal actually.
:)
>I just assumed that it would be routed to the Amiga's RCA output just
>like AsimTunes was (player I was using before)
I presume AsimTunes takes advantage of the nice feature that AsimCDFS
has in that audio CDs are effectively mounted as data CDs with the tracks available as (IIRC) AIFF files ...
>I don't have a soundcard (yet).
Me either ... and the Repulse has been delayed AGAIN! :-/
>I'll dig out the small walkman speakers I have packed away somewhere,
>but it wont sound the same as going through the Amiga's RCA's... How
>can a couple of 2.5inch speakers compare with dolby surround with an
>extra couple of 12inch subs? :)
Or you could get one of those sound mixers from peeps such as Eyetech, or build your own from docs on Aminet, and have both the CD and Amiga RCA audio mixed before it goes into your hi-fi ...
Kev
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