Hello, Sounds like your cd player application is trying to route the cd audio through the mixer and sound card. If you plug phones in there, what happens? In any case, if you'd rather have cd audio out the drive's phones jack, perhaps your application can be 'told' you don't have an audio mixer? I use a cd player application called 'jac'. When I installed it, it was configured to use the stereo mixer for cd audio. I don't have one. To fix this, I made a change in jac's config file. Now I get sound out the drive's jack. I don't think the jac (that's j a c) program is available in any of the package formats (like rpm or deb). I got it from source forge, and compiled. -- Dave