DVDR?

[LilSnoop40]

Hi, my dvdr drive stopped working so I ordered a new one and it came today.  when installing it I noticed it didn't have a audio connection but a only a power and sata connection.  what am I missing I put in a music disc and heard nothing out of it when I went to play it?  must be something I am just missing?

 

Thank you

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

Audio connection on your DVD player is OOOOOOOOOLD technology. We don't use that any more.

 

You have your speakers on? Is your audio notification on?

[LilSnoop40]

from what I saw yes, green cable 3mm from the speakers to the green hole on the soundcard. power on, volume up

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

What program are you using to play the DVD?

[Jose_49]

Wait, DVD R Drives for Desktops had audio connectors? Where?

[+BudMan MVC]

Not that I recall on any of mine..

[LilSnoop40]

1 hour ago, Mindovermaster said:

What program are you using to play the DVD?

I put in an audio disc after installing it and I didn't hear anything. windows media player.

 

I haven't looked or used a drive in many years but someone I know needed one as there's was broke so first time in years, had no I this was the thing.

 

Thank you

[LilSnoop40]

this drive was 15+ years old it was an IDE dvd burner. kinda like this

 

[+BudMan MVC]

I still have an optical drive - only reason is to burn mdisc with it..  haven't put a cd or dvd to play in years.. Only to rip

[+Good Bot, Bad Bot Subscriber¹]

Funny, I just ordered a replacement DVD/CD drive myself for my desktop machine that also has a Blu-ray/DVD burner in it. I don't use them often but I don't want to lose the ability to copy/play/burn discs.

 

You don't need any other connections. You check the volume mixer levels and that the output is set to speakers?

[Michael Scrip]

There used to be a setting in Windows... something like "Digital Audio Playback" to play sound from an optical drive.  

 

The analog audio jack was depreciated long ago when the ability to play sound over the drive's data connection was added to Windows.

 

And drives have since dropped the analog jack altogether.

 

Unfortunately... I can't seem to find that setting in Windows 10... but I just played an audio CD in Windows Media Player from a DVD drive that only has a SATA connection.

[LilSnoop40]

yeah, as I installed the drive I put in a music cd and didn't hear any music.  so no one knows if there a setting as default how it was using windows 10 and simply removing the old drive and added this isn't playing sound.  volume is set enough to hear but nothing from this disc.

 

thank you

[Michael Scrip]

I found this setting in Windows Media Player:

 

 

[LilSnoop40]

sweet, will give this a try.

 

thank you

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15 hours ago, Jose_49 said:

Wait, DVD R Drives for Desktops had audio connectors? Where?

 

Yes, a couple of my old IDE Lite-on burners do (but I did not connect the 'audio' cable to the board though as I think it connects to the motherboard somewhere (or maybe soundcard(?)) if I recall correctly as you can see in the image LilSnopp40 posted with the four prongs is the audio connector I am referring to (to the left of the jumper in his picture he posted))...

 

-Lite-on 24102b (CD-RW drive)... has a Dec 2001 mfg date as I just checked. it's basically the first quality CD burner I owned (even though my first CD burner (Memorex brand) I would have gotten in, I think it was 1998). still works well to this day.

 

-Lite-on 1673s (DVD burner)... without checking, I am pretty sure this has a mfg date of sometime in 2005. this is the first DVD burner I owned and still works well to this day (I got it installed on my old computer with a ASUS A8N32-SLI board running Linux Mint)

 

but I never use the 3.5mm audio jack on either of them. both have a volume adjustment near that 3.5mm audio jack to.

 

p.s. I mainly like DVD burners for backing up higher importance data here and there. I don't use my burners much, but I do from time-to-time. in fact, recently I was playing around with it on Linux Mint trying to figure out how to overburn a CD-R (I used a 80min CD-RW for the testing though) and it worked (I overburned by about 20-25sec (i.e. 80min25sec or so on a 80min CD-RW) with the following command from terminal... "cdrecord dev=/dev/sr0 -v -overburn -dao -pad -audio /location/of/folder/to/burn/*.wav" (without the ") (NOTE: to install cdrecord you do 'sudo apt install wodim' from terminal). I generally don't overburn audio CD's much, but it's nice on the occasion where one makes a custom CD-R and the audio just barely does not fit, you can usually make it fit with overburning. like off the top of my head, I imagine most CD-R's can probably safely overburn at least 30seconds, 'maybe' a up to a minute or so. but beyond that, your rolling the dice and there is a good chance it will fail.

 

18 hours ago, LilSnoop40 said:

what am I missing I put in a music disc and heard nothing out of it when I went to play it?

 

It should work with any decent music playback program on the computer itself.

 

I typically use Foobar2000 for anything music related as it's great for playback and general audio ripping/conversion (i..e lossless(FLAC etc) to lossy(MP3/AAC/Opus etc))

 

but if you got a music disc and are trying to play it on a PC, I suggest ripping it to FLAC format as this is roughly half the size of the original WAV files with identical sound quality, since FLAC is a lossless audio format. plus, it's always nice to keep FLAC files around for when one needs to make MP3/AAC/Opus etc.

Edited July 16, 2021 by ThaCrip