No audio out on modern IDE CD drives?

[Matt_H]

As the CD burner in my AmigaOne is near death, I headed over to MicroCenter after work to procure a new one. I was about to buy one of these when I noticed that engraved into the top of the drive case was a message saying something to the effect that the drive had no audio out support. The little key/legend that explains what all the pins are on the back of the drive showed [NA] for the audio cable header. Yet the pins and connector were present.

Anyone seen anything like this before? Is the message meaningless/erroneous? Why would the manufacturer waste money installing the components if they're not hooked up to anything?

[Matt_H]

@ matt H:
    It's been a while since you bought a CD drive, hasn't it?.....
It's all about the Windows world these days.....

Correct! My newest drive is from early-mid 2006.

So these new drives only support CD audio over the data interface? I can't imagine the Amiga will be able to handle that in all cases. Am I SOL, or would a different/less cheap drive still support analog audio? There's nothing in the text description of the above drive that would have alerted me if I hadn't seen the actual unit in person.