Why gnome-cd is silient: web gossip

[Eric Dunbar]

The original post on this subject summed it up succinctly...

PS Another consideration in this story is that external CD-ROMs can be
convinced to play CDs independently of the computer (provided you have
a pair of headphones).

Eric.

Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D. 
Dec 21 (17 hours ago)
Spreading gossip without validation is both dangerous and rude.  That
being said, I found the following while cruising the web:

       The problem here is that Gnome CD Player does not (yet) do
       digital audio extraction. Macintoshes (and many newer pcs) do
       not have an analog audio cable going from the cd drive to the
       sound card, which is what Gnome CD Player expects. Thus, modern
       machines such as these must read audio CDs as data and do the
       D/A conversion themselves instead of it happening in the CD-ROM
       drive.