Analog vs. Digital playback
Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by DNA
(549 messages posted)
Good point, C.K.; typically (for Audio CD's) XP and Ubuntu will use digital playback
and 98 will use analog playback.
If you don't have the analog 4-pin audio cable going from the CD drive to the sound
card, you won't hear analog audio from that drive.
To enable digital Audio CD playback in Windows 98 (almost all optical drives made
after early 1998 or so should support digital audio, and all DVD-ROM drives,
as well), Start> Settings> Control Panel> Multimedia> Audio CD tab> Checkmark in
"Enable Digital Audio for this device".
This option may not work for 1997/older CD-ROM drives (if the drive doesn't support
digital audio, the check box above will be greyed out), or provide good playback
on 1997/older computers. Also, you won't be able to listen to audio CD's from the
drive's headphone jack, if digital playback is enabled (since it won't be playing
back the disc at "1x" speed, as it would in analog).
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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home
Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro
IBM ThinkPad PIII 900 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2
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- Written in response to:
- re: Flaky soundcard (C K: Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 9:47 am)
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