CD rom problem no sound headset

[Piru]

Headset connected to the drive only work if play the audio with the CDROM drive itself.

Reading the tracks from the CD and playing them (either AIFF data, or mp3) will not use the drive to play them, thus no audio comes out from the drive headphone connector.

It's easy to see the difference: Use the drive play button to play and it works. Use the computer to play, and it doesn't.

[Piru]

AFAIK, the only time you should hear sound thru the audio jack on a cdrom is when you play standard audio-cd's.

And not necessarily even then... Modern Windows always goes thru the IDE interface, the analog audio cable is typically ignored.