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Linein?

Oct 31, 2013 7:38AM PDT

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So an audio router?
Oct 31, 2013 8:13AM PDT
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Re: Linein?
Oct 31, 2013 8:40AM PDT

Linein is very handy. Like watching tv for example. One cable from tv earphone jack to mac mini input linen jack. Then the other cable from the mac mini to the speakers in my monitor. I set linen app to both default for input and output. Or headphones. Then I plug my earphones in tot the monitor and I can hear the tv on my pc. And I can control the volume by pc. Everyone in one spot instead of 1 remote for tv and one thing for pc.

Or I set output to bluetooth and can hear my tv through my bluetooth earpiece. Works great.

But no app like this exists for pc I have seen.

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Odd.
Oct 31, 2013 9:08AM PDT
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Re: Linein?
Oct 31, 2013 6:17PM PDT

I found its called windows audio router.

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/Windows-Audio-Router.shtml

But ut doesn't work. When I plug a cable (like tv audio) to line in on my laptop it detects as a microphone not as line in. My laptop has no bluetooth so I got a targus dongle. It works great in windows 8.1.

I even paired my bluetooth "PLT-M50" plantronics bleu tooth headset. But when I select the microphone and drag it to the right side in windows audio router it doesn't work. The tv audio does not get routed to my bluetooth headset. No sound comes out of my bluetooth headset.

This always works on my mac but not on pc.

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Nod.
Nov 1, 2013 2:33AM PDT

Due to Windows "architecture" you find many of those audio routers to fail. But why?

There are a few reasons. In no particular order we have no standard for the PC hardware and then the rather brutal fact that Windows is not clean in this area. For example Microsoft bowed to the Hollywood studios and implemented software stumbling blocks in the audio sub system.

KEEP IN MIND that I can't change what Windows is. All I can do is nod and try to find links about it.
The link I had seems to be hard to find so I'll just nod here.
Bob