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The audio that comes from a music CD is different that the audio you get from, say, Warcraft. The audio from a CDROM is digital, and the PC has to decode the information and turn it into sound. All of the work to play an audio CD is done by the CDROM player itself. That's why you can start playing a music CD, shut down the Laptop, and in most cases you can get the music to keep going. In order to listen to the audio through your Thinkpad speakers you would have to get a patch coard, run it from the Audio Out on the back of the CDROM, and into the Microphone jack (or Audio In jack) on the Thinkpad, and then give it a go. The audio will probably sound like crap, but it should work with a little messing around. Basically all you are doing is patching your audio directly to the speakers in the Thinkpad. It is easier to just go and punish the person who took you headphones! :P RK ---------- From: owner-thinkpad To: TP750 Subject: Audio CD problems Date: Friday, March 15, 1996 10:11PM So... The work load increases and I slip a CD into the CD-ROM hooked to my faithful TP. I have a little gizmo that controls the CD player as an audio unit; the headphones are connected to the CD unit. Yesterday someone walked away with my headphones - no they didn't get stolen, just borrowed. Suddenly the urge for some music (no, I ain't telling; it's bad enough with the OS wars!) - no problem, my TP750 has audio abilities! Er... er... Ok. I confess: work really suffered... I spent a few hours trying to figure out how to get sound from the CD unit through the built in speaker - all I managed was pure silence! Any suggestions? Many thanks in anticipation. -- Paulo Magalhaes * Dept. Neurology, Columbia University, New York, USA voice: (+1 212) 305 1665 ** fax: ... 305 3986 ** pm119@columbia.edu