Plug ipod in to audio in port

I know this sounds crazy and you're going to ask "why not just use iTunes". Long story short, it is a public computer and the user doesn't want to.
A teacher here wants to use the ipod as an input to the audio in port, and have the sound come out of the internal speakers. No sound comes out at all when trying this. The internal speakers do work. I have tried this on several Macbooks and Macbook Pros.
Feedback appreciated!! Thanks, Tom

The problem is the microphone input requires line level voltage and the iPod doesn't have enough power to do this. You would need something like the iMic to do this.
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hi there!
I'm new to garageband.
i would like to record my fender telecaster electric guitar right from the audio input on my g4 powerbook.
i heard that it can be done with out buying usb input recording devices. (also no i have limited $$$. 2 little kids)
can i just plug the 1/4 plug right into the audio in port?
i know if i go through my Marshall Amp directly in to the audio in port, i'll fry my sound card.
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Well, at least you got a Fender
No, I am afraid you are gonna need a pre amp of some sort to record your guitar. The G5 iMac has some kind of built in pre amp, but that is the only one we have heard about. If you Marshall has a line out, you can use that, but NOT the speaker out! If you like the way your Marshall sounds, and I assume it is a master volume model, then you should just mic it at whatever volume you can get away with playing where you record. Use something like a Shure SM57 and get yourself a decent audio interface. My guess is that if you have a Tele and a Marshall, once you get started, you'll never want to stop, so just get what you need and be done with it
Some other things to consider is that your hard drive on the PB is a slow drive. To get lots a tracks flowing, you are going to do a lot better with an external firewire drive (7200 RPM) just for your music.
You can get a decent USB device such as I have, the Tascam US-122, or if you can, spend the extra cash and a get a firewire interface such as the Presonus Firebox. I get along fine so far with my US-122 at about half the price of the firewire. I don't record my guitar direct and use the built in amp sims, though. I find them not as good as I can get micing my amps. And lately, I started using the Vox ToneLab for silent recording. I just leave it connected all the time, and when I want to record, I just turn it on, and plug in and start recording.
There is some thing called a Guitar Plug or something like that, that claims to allow you to record without a pre amp, but I really don't see how it can boost the signal to line level without a pre amp. Plus, with your slow drive, and using the amp sims, you are gonna bog down pretty quick, I'd think. The amp sims along with the effects presets for the basic guitar sounds are pretty CPU intense. Your best bet for good clean recording, is to get a mic, an interface, and mic that amp!
And do check out HangTime's FAQ page. That can save you a lot of frustration.

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Hi deaconspeaking,
Welcome to Apple Support Communities.
Try looking for the iPod below the Search field in iTunes. If it doesn't show up below search, the second article provides troubleshooting tips that should help you out.
iTunes: Syncing media content to iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1351
Click the button with your device's name, below the Spotlight window.
In the main iTunes browser window, select Music.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3716
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I never expected APPLE wouldn't make a mac that didn't have a proper mic jack?
It has a proper one, a good one, a professional one, not the toy that comes with most PCs. Apple has used line level analog audio input for years.
From Wikipedia;Line level is a term used to denote the strength of an audio signal used to transmit analog sound information between audio components such as CD and DVD players, TVs, audio amplifiers, and mixing consoles.
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Why doesn't the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock relay sound from it's audio out port?

Posted to Belkin Support community to no avail
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Why can't my Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock operate my desktop speakers?
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Bought a Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock at the Apple Store to use with my new MacBook Pro.
When I connected it to my
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-Various USB connected hubs and devices,
-Various Firewire hubs and devices
-My ethernet network from my Cable Modem
Then made the last connection from the Dock to the Thunderbolt port on the MacBook Pro...
All was fine.
But when I made that one last connection - to my desktop speakers via the audio-out port on the dock (earphones icon) nothing happened. The dock did not pick up the audio from the laptop playng an iTunes song or send it to the desktop speakers. When I unplugged the audio cable from the Dock and plugged it in to the MacBook Pro directly, the desktop speakers kicked right in again.
Does Thunderbolt pick up audio-out from a MacBook Pro and carry it to the Dock for connection to my desktop speakers?
Of for some reason, can that signal not be carried by Thunderbolt?
Will I have to get used to the onerous task of unplugging 2 cables from my MacBook Pro when I want to more it to another location in stead of just 1 cable?
But stay with me. Here's the thing.
When this happened I called Belkin Customer Support to ask if they could help me. After taking me through their steps, they agreed that the unit must be defective and agreed to ship me a replacement Thunderbolt Express Dock.
The replacement arrived over the weekend and when I shut down my system and then plugged everything from Dock I purchased into the replacement Thunderbird Express Dock - - - - - the same thing happened!
No signal to the speakers from the dock. Perfect signal when the plug moved from the Dock to the computer itself.
Hence my question:
Does Thunderbolt pick up audio-out from a MacBook Pro and carry it to the Dock for connection to my desktop speakers?
Can it accomplish that function?
Am I really that unlucky to have received 2 defective new Belkin Thunderbolt Express Docks in a row?
Or is it simply a matter of the Dock not handling audio throughput in the manner I am expecting.
Then again, if this is the case, why did the Belkin techies not know this when I called them in the first place.
Yes, I'm going on and on here. But I really don't have time for this.
What's going on here?

OK. No reason to be playing games here. Just surprised that this issue hasn't been brought up here on the community boards as well. Here's the simple solution
Steve
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Re: Why can't my Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock operate my desktop speakers?
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I need to record a phone conversation -- that will take place between two landlines.
(I have the other person's permission -- I'm interviewing them for a paper and we both want a permanent audio recording of the conversation so that the quotes can be later double-checked for accuracy. So, the legality question is not the issue.)
I could do it the old-old-old-fashioned analogue way of getting one of those 1960's-style microphone pickups that have a suction cup to put on the phone...but the audio quality of that is probably pretty low.
I'd much prefer doing it directly digitally by having the phone's audio signal go into my MacBook Pro's "audio in" port and then recording the whole thing with an application on my Mac.
I've solved various peripheral aspects of the problem already: I have a choice of at least three different applications that can make recordings of the internal audio signal on the Mac (among those applications are Amadeus and QuickTime Player 7). And I have a "portable handset" connected to the landline, and the handset has a small audio-out/in jack into which a headphone headset can be plugged. And I have a converter plug which converts a "larger" (I thinks it's 3.5mm) computer-style audio jack into a "smaller" (I think it's 2.5mm) phone-style audio jack.
My questions are: Can I just use any available random 3.5mm-to-3.5mm male-to-male audio cable (such as those that connect tabletop computer-speakers), place the converter plug on one end and insert it into the phone, and then plug the other end into the MacBook Pro's "audio-in" port?
What would happen if I tried that?
Or do I need some kind of specialty cables, or specialty plug-converters?
My MacBook Pro is from about 5 years ago and has one of those "audio-in" (also sometimes referred to as "audio line-in") ports that depict above them a symbol that looks like a circle with two triangles overlapping it (clear image of what the port's symbol looks like here: http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg).
Or do I have the wrong hardware/port to achieve this? If so: What steps can I take to make a digital recording of a landline phone call successfully?
Presumably, even if this scenario I sketch out above is feasible, since the audio out-signal from the phone is being redirected to the phone's out-port, I will not be able to hear the person on the other end from the phone's ear-piece itself; instead, I'd have to speak into the phone's mouthpiece but to hear the other person I must turn on the computer's volume and listen to the audio coming out of the Mac's built-in speakers. A little awkward, but doable.
Or am I barking completely up the wrong tree? If so -- what is the right tree? I'd like to do this without buying more hardware or specialty cables, if possible.

Quick update, for those interested:
Surprisingly, I have gotten it to work using just a random cable and converter plug, despite the predictions that it simply could not work. Well, to be be precise, it sort of works -- I'll explain what happens:
Taking a random 3.5mm-3.5mm male-to-male audio cable from some old tabletop computer speakers, I plug one end into my MacBook Pro's "audio in" port; the other end of the cable I plug into my "3.5mm-to-2.5mm converter plug" that I mentioned in the original post. Then I stick that converted end into the 2.5mm audio-out jack on the side of my Panasonic portable handset (for a landline). Then I open System Preferences > Sound > Input and make sure "Audio Line-in port" is selected. Then I launch QuickTime Player 7 and open Preferences>Recording and make sure "Built-in Input: Line In" is selected. Then in QuickTime Player 7 I go to the menu bar and choose File> New Audio Recording. Then if I make or receive a call on the phone, and press the "Record" button in QuickTime Player 7 -- it records the conversation perfectly clearly!
Well, sometimes it does.
The problem is that the converter plug tip that fits into the phone's audio jack needs to be fiddled with for the audio signal to be transmitted correctly. In fact, strangely, it DOES NOT WORK if the plug is plugged in all the way! For reasons I don't understand, it has to be sort of loosely and delicately half-plugged in for the connection to work correctly. What makes it difficult is that it's nearly impossible to keep the plug plugged in at this delicately balanced halfway level. The slightest motion will make it either go in further, or come out further, and either way, the audio signal is cut off, and I have to fiddle with it to get the connection back by making the plug get back to its perfectly balanced mid-way position.
However, when it is getting the signal, the sound is normal volume -- not dim or unamplified. That's the good news.
I think the problem lies with the exact nature of my converter plug.I notice that most other audio plugs, including both 2.5mm and 3.5mm, have three "bands" of metal on the shaft, separated by two lines (usually plainted blue or black). From my meager understanding of what this means, one of those bands is for incoming audio, the other is a "microphone" band for outgoing audio, and the last is the "ground." Yet the tip of the converter plug I'm using has only TWO "bands" of metal separated by a single black line. So I think it is lacking the "microphone" aspect, and the reason I have to have it plugged only partway in is so that the two bands are trying to match the connectors for the three bands deep in the jack hole.
I will try using it this way today, but for future attempts, next time I'm near an electronics store, I will try to find and buy a 3.5mm-to-2.5mm converter plug that has THREE bands, including the "microphone signal" band. Once I have that, I predict it will work perfectly!
If I ever get to that point, I will update this thread.

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Hey guys,
I was wondering if someone who already has audio+video output through the mini displayport set up can be so kind and answer the following questions for me:
Can audio be output simultaniously from 3.5mm audio port as well as the mini displayport? That is, if I output both video and audio to my reciever through the 2010 iMac's mini Diplayport, can i use the standard audio output port to provide line input for a further set of (active) speakers (analog would be fine)?
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Anyone?
Is that so few people are using the new mini displayport for audio, or did i ask the wrong way?
Help will be greatly appriciated as i need this info in order to plan my purchases!

HT4619 How to test the audio input port

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