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- From: bugs@atlantis.uucp (Dan Berry)
- Subject: Re: CDPlayer.app v1.0- How do I make this thing work?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.084008.20341@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 08:40:08 GMT
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- David Lemson (lemson@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
- > alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:
- >>I finally got my NeXT CD Rom. But for some reason no sounds come out of the
- >>speaker, seems to work with headphones. Is this the only way to play CD's or can
- >>I listen to them through the computer speaker?
- > You can buy a stereo phono->1/8" jack cable and plug it into your
- > sound box/monitor microphone input. Then, use some sort of sound
- > app to play the current input.
-
- <Bzzzzzzt!> <-- the sound you'll be hearing if you try this.
-
- The outputs from the NeXT CDROM player (the RCA phono jacks) are LINE OUTs.
- They are NOT microphone outputs, and as such, feeding them into your mic jacks
- of either your sound box or your monitor runs the risk of damaging it. Mic
- jacks have virtually no voltage to them -- Line outs have in the neighborhood
- of 1.5V peak-to-peak which, at the very least, makes for lousy "buzzy"
- recordings, which isn't what Manuel wanted to do in the first place.
-
- Your best bet is to take the CDROM's line outs and feed them into your stereo's
- line in jacks to listen to discs.. (and no, not the PHONO jacks either, because
- 'real' phono jacks are a different breed again).
-
- > David Lemson (217) 244-1205
- > University of Illinois NeXT Campus Consultant / CCSO NeXT Lab System Admin
- > Internet : lemson@uiuc.edu UUCP :...!uiucuxc!uiucux1!lemson
- > NeXTMail accepted BITNET : LEMSON@UIUCVMD
-
- Be afraid. Be very afraid.
- --
- Dan Berry bugs%atlantis@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca
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