CD Audio without (all of) the wires

From: Rohan Beckles (rohan.beckles_at_virgin.net)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:26:54 +0100

Hello --

I have a SoundBlaster Live! Platinum, driven by the ALSA 1.0.3 drivers.
Currently, in order to listen to CDs through the sound card, I have a thin
2-pin cable running from the CD drive directly to the sound card, which
carries the digital data. I would like to eliminate this cable.

On Windows systems, this cable is not necessary, since the sound card can
somehow read the CDDA data over the IDE or SCSI bus. Is this possible
under Linux? How do I configure the system to do this?

Thank you in advance for any help,

        Rohan Beckles
        rohan.beckles@virgin.net 

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