Re: Flash drives destroyed?

On 12/25/2021 7:45 PM, micky wrote:

>> An MP3 player that offers an analog output, that cable should work
>> in any 1/8" jack, including the PC jack.
> 
> Have you actually tried this in a PC mike jack?  AIUI, I've read that
> microphone input to a PC is onoly useful if there is a program running
> that can receive it and do something with hit .

Mostly true, with exceptions.

https://i.postimg.cc/9QFgX2Lc/audio-passthru.gif

To test this, I ran an audio cable from the new PC to the old PC.
 From Line-Out to Line-In on the old PC.

I used Audacity 2.12 on the new PC, to generate a sine wave.
I selected the waveform and amplified it by -10dB, so
it wouldn't blow out my eardrums.

On the receiving PC, the RealTek dialog detected something
got plugged in. Which is probably a side contact in the jack,
as RealTek doesn't have any other options for detection.

There was no sound, until I moved the slider for playback.
Then I started hearing the sine wave in the speakers.

Naturally, there's a million things that can go wrong. I have
"What you hear" enabled on PCs here, and I hope it's not using
that, but using a path that works regardless.

The Windows 10 "generic audio" controls may not have the control of
that path available. Yet, the hardware has *plenty* of capability.
The hardware is a virtual patch panel. If only there was software.

The RealTek driver, on the RealTek site, you give your email
address to be able to download the driver. Alternately, if
your motherboard is still in support, the manufacturer will
have a slightly older driver which may work. And then the
problem with the RealTek package, is the wrong panel shows up
in the tray.

You don't use that, especially if the panel is tiny and gutless.
That's a Speaker Icon in the excess icons triangle.

But if you look in the Program Files folder for RealTek, then the

    C:\Program Files\Realtek\Audio\HDA\RtkNGUI64.exe

that's the one you want to open, then plug in your Line-In cable
with the stimulus on it. That should bring up the dialog in the
picture.

    Paul