[Scgeeks] Re: Audio problem DAMMIT

[Indigo]

"Frog Prince" <me at privacy.net> wrote in message 
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> |
> | Conversely, instead of running a completely new set of wires, I could
> | probably just switch one of the wires from a L/R channel and use it as 
> the
> | ground wire, ending up with a mono line-in, which doesn't matter since
> it's
> | just talk radio for the most part. Would that work? Any issues with
> | overdriving the unconnected channel on the sound card?
>
> If the input audio is L/R channel use two resistors (1K ohm should work, 
> not
> critical regardless as it's only for isolation) one for the left channel 
> and
> one for the right channel to combine the audio to a single line.  Use the
> other wire for ground.

Thanks for the tip, but I decided to just go mono, I built a test cable and 
sound still comes out of both stereo speakers, so I'm fine with that. Just 
need to finish resoldering all the connections, something I was going to go 
when I got home from PT (4:15 pm today), but instead, like a moron, went to 
the computer first, and I've spent the last 3 hours 
installing/uninstalling/configuring various plug-ins and skins for WinAmp 
and WMP. Discovered that I didn't even have WinAmp on this machine, and WMP 
has a really crappy equalizer. Roxio has a decent one, but I've always used 
WinAmp in the past, I can't believe it took me this long to realize I didn't 
have it on this newish machine! Guess I was just using default installed 
apps while I was busy doing more important stuff since I don't listen to 
music much on the puter. Now that I got involved in running a new audio 
service cable I guess something clicked in my head that I didn't like the 
audio apps very much.

Man, there are a TON of shitty skins and plug-ins out there for WinAmp! And 
a lot of them have this stupid .wal extension, which Vista won't open 
(although it is a custom WA extension and *should* work), but I discovered 
that they're simply .zip files, renaming the file extension got them to 
execute.