Re: [Sheflug] Can anyone recommend a USB sound device?

[(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 30-Aug-09 16:43:30, Ezra Morris wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Adam Funk<a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a device with a line-in jack and a USB connection
>> that does work with Linux? _(I just want to connect the line-out from
>> my
>> hi-fi to record with audacity; the laptop has a microphone jack but no
>> line-in.)
> 
> Depending on your laptop, you may just be able to use the mic input as
> line in. Using my Dell Inspiron under windoze, an application pops up
> asking whether it's a mic or line in, but in Ubuntu it just seems to
> work.
> 
> Personally, I wouldn't recommend USB sound cards, purely because of
> the latency they create, although for your usage, this probably
> wouldn't matter too much.
> 
> It may be worth looking at PCMCIA cards too if you have such a slot. I
> can't recommend any unfortunately as I've never used any.
> 
> Ezra.
> 
> -- 
> Ezra Morris
> epcmorris@xxxxxxxxx

Interesting! That possibility had not occurred to me.

But -- what might be the possible consequences (in a laptop where the
user's manual does not discuss the option, so you don't know) of
experimentally connecting the line-out from (e.g.) a tape recorder to
the microphone socket, which only has microphone circuitry behind it?

I wouldn't want to blow the circuit!
Ted.

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