The _really_ short version is yes.
When I have only the power cable and the data cable hooked up,
WMP will still allow me to hear sound from a plain Audio CD.
Note that using the Windows CDPlayer under the same conditions,
(if installed), will produce "no" sound.         Rick Glazier


> > Some of the new software players (like Windows Media Player)
> > take the music off the CD as pure digital and puts the sound into
> > the sound card as digital and it is "there" that it is finally changed
> > to analog unless you have digital speakers...

From: "J. H. Meinema"
> So what you are saying is that (in short) the audio data is transported from the
> cd-rw by the ide cable to my soundcard..

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