CD-Rom not mounting

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 02:50:41PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Yes it is.  I've never had a CD or DVD drive that could play audio
> without an audio connection of some sort.  Audio tracks are not
> "data" in the sense of computer files.  They are just a continuous
> stream of bits representing the music.  CD burner programs can read
> those tracks and copy them to a file that can be played.

Modern drives no longer have an audio connection.  Since win98 switched
to digital extraction to play audio, the connector has been disappearing
from drives.

So the analog audio connector is gone.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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