MULTIMEDIA
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This causes the drive tray to open in order to place a CD into the
drive. The other two controls are as shown above, headphone
connection and volume control, which are for use whilst playing
commercial audio or music CDs. That is if you are not using any
external speakers, or feeding the output to your hi-fi system.
Note
You can still use all the other facilities on your computer while you are playing
music from your CD drive.
Remember to allow a few seconds to enable the CD to reach full
speed before attempting to play the audio tracks or read the data.
You can play audio or music CDs by using the utilities in Windows
95. Check with the Windows 95 HELP under multimedia topics for
detailed information
Inside your system, the CD drive audio connection is hard wired
directly to the on board sound system, so that the full stereo sound is
amplified and controlled by the Soundblaster.
Photo CDs
Photo CDs can hold up to 100 full colour photographs and with
appropriate software they can be viewed, edited and then printed out
via your computer, or included in your letters and reports. Most
reputable camera or photo shops can provide further information on
getting your best pictures transferred to CD. There are several
EMERGENCY
EJECT HOLE
BUSY
INDICATOR
EJECT
BUTTON
COMPACT
DISC DRAWER
HEADPHONE JACK
AND HEADPHONE LEVEL