#or a headphone jack adaptor.

[yousaytomato]

Current phone: £200, has lasted 4 years

Phone I'm considering: £800, so logically will last 16 years

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

big fuck you to the person that stole my airpods case in town today i hope u enjoy the like £20 or whatever you get from selling a old used first gen airpods case im going to enjoy the 300% increase in autistic + anxiety meltdowns esp in the run up to christmas because i cant afford another fucking £20-30 to replace the fucker and i need those so i dont get over stimulated and can acctually function acctually go suck an entire festive dick i hope a reindeer eats you

[rise-my-angel]

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[umbracirrus]

Whoever invented pillows with speakers built into them.... Thank you. My god they are incredible.

[do-you-have-a-flag]

old mp3 player propaganda for you:

predates planned obsolescence that pushes you to upgrade to the exact same product every year

saves you phone battery by being a dedicated seperate device

no streaming reception issues no buffering

easily portable

full control of order or shuffle

NO ADS

actually pocket sized yes even for annoyingly small designed pockets on women's trousers

conscious music curation, even if you are discovering new music elsewhere you have to decide if you like it enough to keep it in regular listening

more tactile than touch screen smart devices so you can use the controls without looking

actual radio inbuilt no subscription needed

audio jack for headphones or speaker means no faffing around with adaptors or bluetooth charging or connecting to the wrong device or losing connection

no notifications

surprisingly durable

many mp3 players are still multimedia devices with voice record and text or video viewing functions

yes you still might use your phone for the internet or games but also consider no external access to the device without physically plugging it into a computer as a security function

small device kind of cute kind of fun to look at and hold in ur hands like a small creature kind of fun to decorate and accessorise with

my one specifically i was able to download the software from the brand's website because they still have the software and manuals available for discontinued tech and it works no problem, even the battery life still seems fine which i can not say for ANY of the phones i got in the last decade

[brutalistarchitecture2]

Finally bought a headphone jack adaptor after over half a year i think I'm back to my wired headphones life at last

[vintage-tech]

today’s educational and demystifying post: How DO you connect a record player or turntable to a computer so you can rip vinyl?

Or for that matter, listen to records through your PC speakers. If this isn’t of interest to you, continue scrolling. If it is, click on thru to the other side...

Where does one get a thingie that plays records? You can go the cheap route and find one in a thriftstore, you can go the pricey route and buy one new, you can go the upper-mid-range route and find one at a used record store (at least you’re more certain than at a thrift that the thing will work!) -- or you can cheat the system a bit by buying one of those all-in-one record/tape/CD/radio setups that look like an old cabinet, branded with Crosley or Intelligent Technology or the like, and see what options it has for output (two RCA output jacks and/or a headphone jack), which often costs less than just a turntable alone.

Can we even do this? It’s fair to say that not every record player can be connected to anything at all if it has built-in speakers. Many, though, have a headphone jack that when plugged into will shut off the speakers, so that’s one way. Turntables meanwhile always have some way to connect to a stereo system, specifically the coaxial connectors known as RCA plugs, and occasionally have a headphone jack also. The RCA plugs are usually color coded red and white for the left and right channels, though nothing’s going to explode if you switch them. :) Here’s what the RCA plugs from a turntable look like next to the RCA input jacks on the back of my stereo receiver:

So how do I get the record player connected to my computer? Let’s look at the computer first... There’s a microphone jack on the computer, on the back or possibly you have a second one on the front of a desktop machine, or on a notebook there’s a jack on the side, and many are color-coded pink. (Additionally there may be a blue color-coded jack next to it labelled Line In. It does the same thing but at a different volume level and that’s what I use on my notebook because something’s wonky about my mike input.) Now let’s look at whatever you’re playing a record on... If it only has a headphone jack, you can use one of those plug-to-plug cables ($8 at Walmart, $1 at Dollar Tree) that have become popular for playing music from your cell phone or MP3 player through the Auxillary jack of your car’s radio. [left] If it has RCA plugs, there are handy adaptors (two styles are shown here) to shift from RCA jacks to a headphone plug. [right] 2-RCA-jacks-to-1/8″-stereo-plug adaptors are available online or you might find one at a thriftstore or electronics store like BestBuy.

So plug the headphone cable into the record player’s headphone jack OR plug the two RCA plugs into the adaptor, and then stick the other end of the wire you’re holding into the computer’s microphone jack (or Line In). Now you are set!

(If you want to/can get a little more snazzy -- useful for adjusting volume and balance, the use of an equalizer, and some bonus effects like Bass Boost and Surround Sound -- here’s how I have my home setup: The turntable is connected to the RCA inputs on my stereo receiver, and I’ve run a cable from the receiver’s headphone jack to the computer’s input jack.)

Okay, so now what do I do on the computer? It’d take a longer post to explain every last detail fully, but you can shortcut past most of this by using the controls in the sound editor program Audacity, which you’ll probably want to be using anyway. (Nothing against any of its rivals like Magix Audio Cleaning Lab, which I also use for its various effects, but Audacity is very easy to understand for the process of ripping music from vinyl.) Let’s set Windows up to use the turntable as an input device now. In the latest version of Audacity, here’s the toolbar at the top:

First thing, choose the source (as shown). The above presumes that we’re using the frontside microphone jack on my computer; if the plug were in the backside Line In jack, that would be another option listed. Now we need to get the input sound level set. I’m going to put a record on and drop the needle in some random location; in the control buttons on the left I click Pause then click Record (just like a tape recorder!) so the input volume will be dynamically displayed without starting a recording:

The green ever-shifting bars in the input meter show that audio is coming into the sound card indeed, so that part was successful. Right in the middle (over the number 30) is the thumb for adjusting the input level -- if the bars weren’t going far on the scale, I’d move the thumb to the right to make it more sensitive, and if the bars were all the way to the right, I’d move the thumb to the left until the bars were maxing out between 6 and 12 on the scale, the yellow zone of the meter, because you don’t want it to be overloud (that’s called ‘clipping’; you can use the software to amplify not-loud-enough sound so being in the midrange is best). Once you have the input level corrected, now’s when you should adjust the output sound -- the standard Windows way, by clicking the speaker icon next to the clock to move the slider -- so you can hear it at your comfort level, and it doesn’t affect the volume of the audio files you create.

Okay, you can click the Stop button now that you have the input and output sound levels set, or you can restart the record where you want to begin and unpause. How to rip, edit, and save music is a different post. :) 

What if I don’t hear what’s playing but Audacity shows the sound is working correctly? Also: Can I play vinyl and have the sound come through my PC speakers without being in a sound editor program? Input audio playing through the speakers is a function of Windows’ Sound control panel, the exact location of the toggle varies between versions, but here’s a screencap of what’s what in Windows 10:

Path here: Sound control panel, under Input the Microphone is selected so click Device Properties, then the window shifts to the Device Properties list; under Related Settings click Additional Device Properties, a new dialog pops up with four tabs, and under the Listen tab check “Listen to this device”. Also available here is the Levels tab, which is the place you’d be adjusting the recording level manually if you didn’t do it through Audacity as explained a minute ago.

A protip: It’s probably best to be listening through headphones, rather than using your computer’s speakers at normal volume, when ripping so you hear better sound quality as you work as well as so the playback sound doesn’t bleed/echo into the recording, because needles are fairly sensitive. Yes, I have an MP3 of Thompson Twins’ “Hold Me Now (Extended Version)” where you can hear me lean back in my creeky desk chair during a quiet passage...

So now you know how to physically set up a record player to your computer and how to get the computer to use the record player as an audio input!

[dracolizardlars]

The audio jack adaptor just arrived so my late father's beautiful marble-effect Sennheiser HD 600 headphones can finally get used again (NONE of my stuff has the big fucking socket needed for them without an adaptor) and I'm so excited to use them for the first time

[sightofsea]

one pair of skullcandy headphones with a lightning jack adaptor is worth a thousand airpods

[daaydreamy]

you guys have no idea how mad i still am at apple for taking out the headphone jack. the amount of adaptors and earphones i’ve bought is TOO MUCH I’M DONE

[natileroxs]

I don’t usually make posts like this but this makes me mad. I had to buy a new phone. The only reason that is the case is because my old one has a bulging lithium battery that may catch fire or explode at any time. Hence, buying a new phone. This new phone has no headphone jack. I don’t use bluetooth because I find it annoying to switch from device to device. I’ve already shelled out a good $580 for the new phone, new screen protector that didn’t come with it, new case. Now I have to buy an adaptor so that I can plug my headphones in. It uses a micro usb, so none of my old chargers work. It has a micro usb on both ends, so it doesn’t plug into any of my wall adaptors so I can charge it. I have to use the only thing that has a micro usb port, my new laptop (how lucky is that). Now I have to buy an adaptor so I can plug it into the wall. 

Why did my new phone come without any of these things? Who knows. But starting out with the fact that I really didn’t want a new one in the first place (I like how my old phone was set out and worked) and I only got a new one due to an actual safety hazard, we really need to start altering the way these things happen. Phones should come with a screen protector, with an adaptor for corded headphones, with a wall plug for a brand new type of charger. 

If someone can explain why these things have changed and why they’re not advertised nor advised or included, go ahead. If not, I’ll just have to sit here and seethe. 

[ocelotrevs]

I was really keen on having a phone with a 3.5mm jack, but I realised that I hardly ever used the jack, and since I've gotten a phone without it, there hasn't been a single circumstance where I've missed it.

Bluetooth headphones are great.

Bluetooth will be one of those things I'll be telling my son about, as I remember when it first started becoming really common. However, you still needed separate USB adaptors to use it, as it wasn't common.

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[superlansde]

My phone broke, so I'm trying to see what to buy and I'm getting so frustrated. Really all boils down to the fact that there are no music players anymore :(

That's what matters more to me. If I see a phone I like, it immediately becomes shit when I see that they don't have a headphone jack. And I see an iPhone and I have to buy a super expensive one because they don't have expandable memory. And if I want to use applemusic in an android, it doesn't let you hear the hi-resolution audio, so I pay for a half-usable app. Use spotify? The app sucks and they are the worst at paying artists. And it doesn't matter what, I have to either buy an adaptor for the headphone jack that is gonna bust the charging port or buy bluethoot headphones that use a stupid battery and sound like shit because companies sell them to sound super bassy. And sure, they are music players but they cost so much and use Android, and old versions of it, so it's going to be obsolete in no time.

You get me? I wish they still made ipods.

There are ways around it, but it sucks that you have to jump so many obstacles just because capitalism made music worse.

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