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Why can't i hear my cd playing?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:27 pm
by macmax
How come in mac os 7.5.3 when i try to play a cd i can't hear any sound? by default the cd player is set to no volume,but when i try to turn up the volume the volume snaps down again. even when i hold the volume level up i still don't hear any sound. But I can still hear volume sounds. What's going on?
sorry wrong word
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 8:29 pm
by macmax
sorry i meant too say i can still hear system error sounds. Also i'm on Windows XP pro sp2.
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 4:10 pm
by PPC_Digger
Try turning up the volume in the windows mixer for "CD Player".
thanks
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 5:06 pm
by macmax
i don't have an option for cd player on the mixer. will cd audio or cd digital work?
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2005 6:04 am
by Mac Emu
Depending on the Mac OS you are running, choose either the Sound or Monitors & Sound control panel, then set the Sound Input to Internal CD.
http://mes.emuunlim.com/screenshots/InternalCD.htm
won't work
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 12:26 am
by macmax
i don't have that option in my sound control panel. i don't have any options in my sound control panel. once again my os is 7.5.3. i am going to try to update my os to os 8. maybe that will fixit. Thanks for your help
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:55 am
by Mac Emu
I hope you can get it working.
The Mac OS 7.5.3 Sound control panel has a drop-down box with various selections. See screenshot link below:
http://mes.emuunlim.com/screenshots/Sound_System75.htm
I also have to ask ... have you copied the cdenable.sys file into your Windows\System32\Drivers directory?
Re: thanks
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 2:29 pm
by PPC_Digger
macmax wrote:i don't have an option for cd player on the mixer. will cd audio or cd digital work?
One of them should. It's just called differently on each sound card.
still doesn't work
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:38 pm
by macmax
i know about the sound control panel that is where i looked first. yes i do have the cdenable.sys in my drivers folder. I have a sound blaster live ! value card. I can do everything except play cd's. the sound even works in SimCity 2000! Do you guys know of any good mp3 players for System 7.5.5? I tried to play some mp3's on my pc hard drive ,but that didn't work cause it's mp3 format.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 2:23 am
by The Balance Of Judgement
Here is a question: Do you have the proper Cable hooked inside your CD-ROM for analog audio? Older Mac OS systems do not use digital audio and require a standard cd-rom audio cable be hooked up to the drive.
Digital audio extracts audio digitally as if the audio cd were a disc containing binary data, whereas analog cd playing is done using a drive's internal cpu and sent via the analog sound cable. Macs used analog because it used hardly any cpu time making it faster.
i didn't know that!
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:26 pm
by macmax
i had no clue about that! that's rather interesting. no i don't think don't think that i have the cable hooked up in my dvd/cdrw drive. i only use it to play games and copy music with windows media player. digitally of course(what isn't these days!). thanks again. no os 8 though. i found out it's not exactly free. so i use 7.5.5.