raglencross;410842 Wrote: > I don't know if you are still out there Lastman, but I would like to > know if you finally got wave input to work under Vista with your > Soundmax card. I have the same card and following your instructions, I > too was able to get a "stereo mixer" under recording devices. Selecting > it still does not give me an output via the wave input plugin except > when I loop the PC's headphone output to the line input with a cable > which I was able to do anyway without the mixer using headphones and > line input. I am beginning to suspect that one the reason the mixer is > disabled on full duplex cards is that the same thing can be accomplished > by a physical loop back, although with a loss of sound quality due to > analogue/digital conversions. Comments anyone?
Sorry for the delay, just found this! My situation is slightly different from yours. The sound chip is on my laptop, and it lacks a line-in, only a microphone socket. I am not trying to get wave-input to work as it only works where the computer you are using is also your SqueezeCenter server. To get sounds out of my Squeezebox from my laptop I would have to use some software capable of converting system sounds on the laptop into an MP3 stream that could be broadcast over my network. Either way, to get sound out of the Squeezebox either using wave-input or MP3 net-casting you still need a proper sound interface. Using the Soundmax on-board chip I can only get system sounds recording running partially. I found that enabling the "stereo mixer" function did not allow me to record using "stereo mixer" as the source, but strangely the PC sound would now be recordable if I selected "microphone" as the source - Weird! However the sound quality was awful. Tinny and compressed, lacking both high and low frequencies. A bit like AM radio. I have not tried the cable loop like you, but I doubt it would give reasonable sound quality either I think the lack of a line-in function and no proper system sound recording is a deliberate policy on most laptops for some reason. Maybe it is too much of a resource hog, or perhaps it is a copyright protection thing. So I abandoned that option. I have since found a couple of low cost USB bus-powered sound interfaces on the web and am thinking of trying one for those occasions when I need proper sound recording / processing on the laptop. Cheap and cheerful (£25 / $35), basic specification using in-built Windows drivers: http://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/UCA202.aspx More expensive (£65 / $90) but with higher resolution recording functions, bespoke ASIO drivers etc: http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-1EX/ The second is probably over-kill for recording laptop sounds or for use with wave-input plug-in. However, if your computer is desktop PC, I suggest disabling the on-board sound in the BIOS and using a proper sound card. One of the Creative labs line should do the trick. The Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio can be had for about £35 / $50. -- TheLastMan Matt SB Duet (Controller + two receivers) Synology Diskstation 107+ with FW 2.0-0731 SqueezeCenter 7.3.2 on Synology Package Manager Naim 42/110 amp, B&W CM2 speakers in living room. Denon DM37 mini-system, B&W 686 speakers in kitchen. LPs ripped using Linn LP12, Naim 72/Hi-cap, M-Audio 2496. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TheLastMan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16021 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718
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