You have it way easier these days, but back in the day, when you wanted to play a game on your PC, you had to take a similar ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

IE only audio discs, but yea, just plug in headphones and go. I have to use it as Im too lazy to plug the audio out cable from my drive to the soundcard ...

At one time, Floppy drives, CDs, and DVDs used to be a primary source of external storage for many before USB storage devices took over. Nowadays, many devices do not even come with a built-in CD, DVD ...