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Dumb question re CD RW

Jun 7, 2005 6:34AM PDT

I just bought a CD RW external drive to back up my files.

It also comes with an audio cable to plug into my computer (a left-right plug for the external drive's output that converges to a single jack for inputting into the PC's sound card). My dumb question is which of the 3 slots on the sound card does the single plug go into? There is a speaker plug, a mic plug and a line out plug. I doubt it goes into the Mic plug but I can see either of the others being appropriate.

This is not a big deal as my pc has a read-only drive that works just fine and I don't currently need to use the external drive for playing anything, but I'd still like to know (and the direction book fails to tell me).

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Line out and Speaker; both?
Jun 7, 2005 6:09PM PDT

Seems odd. Normally sound cards on Desktops will have a Mic in, Line in and Line out. It may also have a Speaker out in addition. Laptops may not have a Line IN.

In your case, it must be LINE IN and not LINE OUT. Please confirm. The CDRW audio cable goes in to the Line IN socket.

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Dumb question re CD RW
Jun 10, 2005 2:15AM PDT

Yes this for audio playback. If you have a newer PC the line input is the blue one. If you have an older PC you will have to look at the book that came with the PC. John