Audiophile and SB removal

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Im planning on jerking my SB out of my system, but my wife will have a fit if she cant listen to a CD while working on something on the puter. Does anyone know how to setup the Audiophile to use as a default CD player and system output sounds. Currently, as most, my CD drives are tied to the SB with audio jumpers. There is no option for this with the audiophile. Im assuming some kind of software is needed. I thought I heard sonic foundry siren express, but they dont make it anymore.
 
Are you heart set on pulling the SB?

Why not run them both?


Sorry for the questions to your question.

Bighand[:D]
 
Free up IRQ. Im optimizing my system. The less crap the better
 
I know when I was installing our CD Burner you had the option of attaching an audio cable from the CD Burner or CD ROM to the motherboard (I think it was the motherboard) to play audio CD's through your PC's default soundcard. Hopefully you got that, otherwise I don't know what else to tell you.
 
You seem to know quite a bit about this stuff so this is gonna seem real obvious probably but, does your card have an auxillary input you aren't using that you could run the CD audio cable to? Either that or run the spdf output from the CD (if it has one) to a spdf input on the card providing you aren't using it already for a DAT or something. Other than that or using the factory card built into the system board (if it has one) is all I can think of.

Oh, well hey, you could always run a y-cord from the little headphone output on the front of the CD player to an input on your stereo system. A last resort but the wife wouldn't be that concerned with sound quality anyway probably...dames and all. :) Besides, depending on the impedance it might sound just fine like that.
 
I yanked my old cheap soundcard out, installed the Audiophile 2496, then took the advice of Gidge & others and used Windows Media Player to play my CD's. Works like a charm.

VI
 
Village Idiot said:
I yanked my old cheap soundcard out, installed the Audiophile 2496, then took the advice of Gidge & others and used Windows Media Player to play my CD's. Works like a charm.

VI
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Elaborate on that. I have Mediaplayer 7.1 but did'nt find any settings to do this, nor on winamp.
Or direct me to that topic, if it still exists.
 
Basslord1124 said:
I know when I was installing our CD Burner you had the option of attaching an audio cable from the CD Burner or CD ROM to the motherboard (I think it was the motherboard) to play audio CD's through your PC's default soundcard. Hopefully you got that, otherwise I don't know what else to tell you.
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This was a possible option, but currently I cant find my mobo manual. And Asus website? Jesus, thats a problem in itself.....
 
I'm not positive on this but i believe youcan play cd's with your new card without a physical audio lead from the cd drive by enabling "digital audio playback" in the device settings for your cd drive. I dont know what windows you are running but it should be in the devicwe manager/cd drive/advanced or something like that. Good luck

Amiel
 
Mealz said:
I'm not positive on this but i believe youcan play cd's with your new card without a physical audio lead from the cd drive by enabling "digital audio playback" in the device settings for your cd drive. I dont know what windows you are running but it should be in the devicwe manager/cd drive/advanced or something like that. Good luck

Amiel
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Thanks for that reply. OS is currently 98se but changing to XP soon. I did'nt have that option in Device manager. Did see it in multimedia settings though, but cannot get access to that button. Anyway, got the system sounds outputing to Audiphile now, but still working on the CD drive.
 
Mealz said:
Maybe your Cd drive doesn't support digital transfers of audio
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Installed XP and now it does. Everythings working great !!!
 
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