Audiophile 2496 and CD-rom?

[timzydee]

I read somewhere on here that the Audiophile 2496 card has no connection, either analog or digital, for a CD...true? In other words, you\'d have to have a seperate sound card to listen to a CD on the same machine?

[NAZARU]

It is true that the Audiophile does not connect internally to the cd rom but you still can listen to a cd. Simply download Winamp from MP3.com. It is free and it works great. Peace.

[NAZARU]

I don\'t know how it works. All I know is that it does. I guess the data travels the same path that data does when anything else is being read by the cd rom such as when you install a program using your cd rd rom. Peace.

[LHong]

The CD-audio interface is getting from IDE cable in \"Digital\" mode. just like how you play the wave files from harddrive.

[timzydee]

If there\'s no connection internally, how does Winamp play it through the soundcard which is connected to the speakers?