No input jack support in current iMACs

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Jesse Smith
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No input jack support in current iMACs

Post by Jesse Smith » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:27 pm

My 6-year old iMAC had an input jack that, with a Male to Male Cable, let you record from playing an external audio player in to it, while the current iMacs don't have input jack support. Is there a way to input audio from an external recorder, directly into the iMac and Audacity other that by just playing it, which of course would also record background noise?

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Re: No input jack support in current iMACs

Post by kozikowski » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:32 pm

We were sorry to see Stereo Line-In vanish across the Mac line.
I use and like the Behringer UCA202 stereo SoundCard. It's good quality and generic and will easily connect to almost anything.

This is one with my stereo mixer.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/ ... Lenovo.jpg

Other people make similar adapters.

Koz

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Re: No input jack support in current iMACs

Post by kozikowski » Mon Nov 17, 2014 9:35 pm

A note. Make sure your adapter says stereo in and out. The ICUSBAUDIO, for one example is Mono Mic-In only, not stereo.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/13214962?wmls ... 31&veh=sem

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