No Spectrum Analyser or Oscilliscope

Ron001 · 10th October 2002, 16:11

I have no Spectrum Analyser or Oscilliscope when I use a CD. If I play a MP3, either one of those works perfectly. If I put in a CD, nothing. It plays correctly, just no SA or Oscilliscope. Thanks in advance!!

Ron

kdsatview · 11th October 2002, 03:54

is your soundcard connected to your cd rom drive?

if it isnt, the drive will still play the cd but wave analizers and stuff wont work.

the drive should have come with a (female on both ends) 3 pin cord, one end plugs in on the left side at the back of the drive, the other plugs into the (pretty sure it will be labelled on card) cdrom plug on the soundcard.

Adil · 11th October 2002, 13:28

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Originally posted by Ron001
I have no Spectrum Analyser or Oscilliscope when I use a CD. If I play a MP3, either one of those works perfectly. If I put in a CD, nothing. It plays correctly, just no SA or Oscilliscope. Thanks in advance!!

Ron

In this case, your cd audio is runing in analog mode.
The sound goes directly from your cdrom to the soundcard bypassing winamp.
result: you can't use visualisations nor dsp's or EQ with audio cd's.

The advantage is that it uses 0% cpu.

Ron001 · 12th October 2002, 03:29

The wire is connected to the Sound Card. I even tried my CDRW with the wire to the sound card. Still nothing! I checked the properties of both drives in the Control Panel and the box is checked on both drives that says to use the digital ability of the drive. I'm using Windows XP. Thanks again!

Ron

npgall · 18th October 2002, 01:36

I have the same problem intermittently. Winamp sometimes plays cds in MCI CD Audio mode and sometimes in CDDA mode when I put the disc in my laptop's internal drive. MCI is a fallback mode when something goes wrong apparently and doesn't seem to work with the spectrum analyser. Discs always play in MCI mode when I put them in my external USB CD writer (ZipCD 650) and therefore I never get the analyser to work with that drive. Both of these modes seem to play the music digitally as I don't have the analog connections from my USB drive connected to the laptop but can still hear the music.

Adil · 18th October 2002, 09:27

In this case there are two kinds of digital cd audio playback, the built in windows one... which winamp will recognize as analog cd audio despite it being digital, and the winamp3 digital cd audio, which will activate the visuals in winamp.

10th October 2002, 16:11	#1
Ron001 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2	No Spectrum Analyser or Oscilliscope I have no Spectrum Analyser or Oscilliscope when I use a CD. If I play a MP3, either one of those works perfectly. If I put in a CD, nothing. It plays correctly, just no SA or Oscilliscope. Thanks in advance!! Ron

11th October 2002, 03:54	#2
kdsatview Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 1	connected to soundcard? is your soundcard connected to your cd rom drive? if it isnt, the drive will still play the cd but wave analizers and stuff wont work. the drive should have come with a (female on both ends) 3 pin cord, one end plugs in on the left side at the back of the drive, the other plugs into the (pretty sure it will be labelled on card) cdrom plug on the soundcard.

18th October 2002, 01:36	#5
npgall Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Ireland Posts: 3	CD Audio & spectrum analyser problem I have the same problem intermittently. Winamp sometimes plays cds in MCI CD Audio mode and sometimes in CDDA mode when I put the disc in my laptop's internal drive. MCI is a fallback mode when something goes wrong apparently and doesn't seem to work with the spectrum analyser. Discs always play in MCI mode when I put them in my external USB CD writer (ZipCD 650) and therefore I never get the analyser to work with that drive. Both of these modes seem to play the music digitally as I don't have the analog connections from my USB drive connected to the laptop but can still hear the music.

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12th October 2002, 03:29	#4
Ron001 Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 2	The wire is connected to the Sound Card. I even tried my CDRW with the wire to the sound card. Still nothing! I checked the properties of both drives in the Control Panel and the box is checked on both drives that says to use the digital ability of the drive. I'm using Windows XP. Thanks again! Ron

18th October 2002, 09:27	#6
Adil Major Dude Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 1,377	In this case there are two kinds of digital cd audio playback, the built in windows one... which winamp will recognize as analog cd audio despite it being digital, and the winamp3 digital cd audio, which will activate the visuals in winamp.