Hey guys, I got a question about installing a new CD burner and keeping my existing CD-ROM. The question is that how can I listen to audio CD from both of the CD drive. I am talking about the cable that came with the CD-ROM drive with two small squarish connectors at either end, that I have to connect one end to the CD drive and the other end to the sound card in order to listen to audio CD. So, if I have already connected the cable between the sound card and my existing CD-ROM drive, then what can I do if I want to play an audio CD from my new install CD burner. Is there any way that I can connected the cable so I'll have the choise to choose which CD-ROM or CD burner that I want to play my audio CD from without restricting myself to only one of them. Thanks, Blue

You can't just attach the second cd-player (rom or writer) to the soundcard, but I heard of something that you can attach to the soundcard to be able to attach 2 audiocables It's not just a splitter, but a module, where you can attach the cables. Or else,perhaps this is something: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/cdrom_audiocombiner.html Seems you will have to make it yourself... Johan

It can also depend on the soundcard you have. I have the SB Live! and it can have 2 cd-roms plugged into into it. Check to make sure your soundcard doesn't already have 2 places to plug the audio cable into. Justin

Thanks guys, I'll have a good look at my sound card see whether I have two CD-ROM plug in slots. And Johan, I am not trying to mix the audio signal from two CD-ROM drives together. All I want is to enable both of CD-ROM and CD burner to play audio CD (but not at the same time). I am just wondering if I can plug the cable into the "AUX IN" or "CD SPDIF" in order for it to work, if my sound card don't have a 2nd "CD IN" slot. Thanks, Blue

I think using the aux will work just fine. It wouldn't hurt to try it. Try the cd spdif also if the aux doesn't work. Justin

Thanks Justin, I'll try that. Blue

Yes, either jack will work. Have a SB Live Platinum 5.1 with CD-RW, CD-ROM, and DVD all attached, and have even used the phone input (TAD) with no loss of quality