Dave Plowman wrote:

You wouldn't want the average CDROM drive in a CD player. Too noisy.

Only because they're doing 48x speed or whatever, there used to be ways
of fixing them to 1x speed by sending a SCSI/ATAPI command. Though
Windows changed from feeding the analogue audio from the drive into the
sound card's CD input to reading the audio track digitally and playing
it as a wav file a long time ago.