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   jts (jts@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 00:28:22 JST jts

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs

   Thanks. So sound cards ended up buying dual purpose interface adapter cards (for CD ROM), and sound cards.

   I never really needed (or maybe didn't remember)to understand that when I got my first CD ROM drive. Maybe my dad did, or we had a pre-built thing that just worked.

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     jts (jts@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 11-Feb-2024 23:43:58 JST jts

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Is this an ATA card? Or is that an ATA out?

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     jts (jts@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 00:18:32 JST jts

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Lol. Yeah, ISA.

     What, Why? How does this thing us "CD-Interface"? If I piped my CD drive here can it only play music or I'm just confused.

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     Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 00:22:02 JST Elias Mårtenson

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs what's MPC that they claim they are supporting?

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     Brad (bk1e@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 00:44:41 JST Brad

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @JTS @thomasfuchs Speaking of playing music: the small white 4-pin connector above the “Wave Blaster upgrade option” connector was for connecting the CD-ROM drive’s analog audio output. Many CD drives couldn’t accurately extract digital audio over IDE/SCSI/whatever without clever software such as “cdparanoia”.