Line In jack Problems

Ok so here is my issue, The line in jack in the back of my imac, for a while it was working, i have a mic and a mixer for my recording studio, until the other day it worked, but when i pug it in everything runs really slow garage band freezes, and it wont work any more on there, the rainbow curser comes on until i unplug it, and it hummm's really loud, now i also have boot camp with windows vista, when i plug it into it it also humms loud. It also flashes plugged in, then flashes unplugged, really fast between the two then i have headphones on and the sound will come out of the speakers on the imac,
its acting like its pocessed. im so confussed if some one could help i would really be thankful
Thanks Ricky

I would guess it's a hardware problem with the line in jack, which will require a service engineer to deal with.
You can plug a mixer into the jack, not a microphone by itself.
A workaround would be to get an audio-USB interface and plug the mixer into that: the quality will also be better. Edirol make suitable ones, see also http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/FAQPages/Interfaces.html

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Can Apple please solve this: The line-out (and/or headphone-out, or default-out) on my 2010 Mac Pro just stops working on a daily basis. I use SoundFlower and LineIn apps as directed and they work fine on all internal sound-generating apps like iTunes, EyeTV HD, SoundStudio, etc. But audio coming in through the built-in audio line-in jack stops working at some point every day, or overnight. Sound control panel shows audio is getting into the computer, and LineIn app shows input and output, but I don't hear sound through the Mac's Line or headphone output.
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Robert Wendel1 wrote:
Can Apple please solve this:
ask them
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
I have the latest versions of OS 10.7.5, SoundFlower and LineIn freshly (re)installed.
SoundFlower is notorious for causing OSX problems. Not familiar with Lineln, but would search for anyone else having compatability issues with Lion if I were you.
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Dear CEO of Creative Labs [I still have to find out how to contact the CEO]:
I was very excited about buying your product, the Creative Nomad Zen Micro, as an alternati've to competitors such as Apple's iPod mini and the Rio Carbon. I was impressed by the numerous features, the looks, and the size of the player, which could fit into the palm of your hand.
Unfortunately, I came across a serious problem with the player that could have serious consuquences on my (and many other people's) buying descisions. There seems to be a defect in the headphone jack of the player, causing it to pop loose and make the sound intermittently come through only one of the headphones, in a few months or even a matter of days, making the player unusable.
Countless members of the Creative community in the forums on your website have gone through three to four Micros with this problem, as well as people commenting on the player at review websites such as Cnet. There have been numerous messages sent to customer support about this problem, but it has all been attributed to user error.
If you just take a look at the Creative forum, there are so many people with this problem that it can't possibly be a rare manufacturing defect, especially considering the fact that quite a few people have gone through 2 or 3 micros already, all with the same problem. We are not asking you to immediately fix the problem, we understand that it would probably entail a large and costly effort to do so. What we do want to know is that we want a public announcement of the problem, whether Creative has confirmed it or not, and what is being done/not being done about it, and perhaps customer tips about how to avoid it. There have been rumors that the headphone jack as been supposedly reinforced by a metal plate, and others... Many potential creative customers like such as me are left in the dark about what most forum users refer to as the "dreaded" headphone jack problem. We would like to know about it, what to do to avoid it, and whether or not something is being done/has been done to new products to prevent this problem from happening. Again, contacting support has not answered our questions.
If I, (and countless other potential customers), are uncertian about this problem, we might as well give up a few features like the FM tuner and buy and iPod mini or another competing product free of such a problem. We would very much appreciate it if you would publicly release information about this problem.
Please contact me at the address shown. [Yes, this IS a snail-mail letter] We are all looking forward to a reply. For more information, please refer to the petition here:
[http://forums.creative.com/creativelabs/board/message?board.id=dap&message.id=34476]
Sincerely,
The Creative Forum Community
Any suggestions/comments/corrections? (This is just a quick first draft) Please sign here for the petition. Also, you could post "testimonials" about your opinion on the headphone jack problem. I'm not expecting a reply from the CEO him/herself but I hope to get a better response than just an email to support.Message Edited by CreativeHead on 03-7-2005 02:03 PM

There are threads ongoing on similar topics. This is not a suitable topic for this forum.
I will pass on any comments from the other threads and original post in this one, but I'm closing this topic and any further petitions like this as it will just result in "Creative-bashing" and unproducti've comments.
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Hi.
I bought my zen micro on April 4 and everything was fine until a few weeks ago
when I got the headphone jack problem. When I touch the plug that is connected
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P.S.) I can see there are some ppl who are getting upset by this same problem here.
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I have a silver Zen Micro, and am currently experiencing this very annoying headphone jack problem where sound gets distorted depending on how I move the headphone jack. Additionally, my player turns on by itself occasionally when it's in my pocket-- I'm not really sure what kind of problem that is, but it's very fraustrating nonetheless.
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instead of everyone saying how many people have problems with the headphone jack issue on the micro,
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