[nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer

Wed Oct 31 02:22:20 UTC 2012

again,

if you don't want jaws coming thru the stereo receiver, you need to buy 
another usb sound card/device plain and simple!
Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
To: "NFB in Computer Science Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 8:46 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer

> Hello John and others,
>
>    We're wanting to do the exact opposite. We want audio from our PC to be
> played over the Ht so we can enjoy programs like past years of Nine 
> Lessons
> and Carols from King's College, A Baroque Christmas, documentaries in our
> collection dealing with holiday music of the early 20th Century and 
> further
> back and share it with friends and house guests when they come to visit.
> It'll be nice enjoying a nice December evening together with all of the
> Christmas decorations lit up hearing past holiday episodes of Pipedreams,
> Musica Antiqua,   Ancient Voices, performances of Messiah, Bach's 
> Christmas
> Oratorio instead of hearing umpteen renditions of Spike Jone's "I'm the
> Angel in the Christmas Play." If you've heard the words of that song a
> better title would be "I'm the Devil in the Christmas Play."
>
> Looks like I'll need to consult some other sources for help with this and
> share the solution with y'all. It would only need there to he a switch to
> allow us to connect the PC line-out from the PC, the PC desktop speakers 
> and
> the home theater together so we can push the PC audio to the HT when we 
> wish
> to hear our personal collection that way without having to switch the
> line-out cord to the different audio sources. We have a month to figure it
> out.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
>
> Okay, the source of the confusion is a comment you made in your original
> message. Your original message said, "Naturally we don't want jaws going 
> out
> through the home theater." You can deal with that with the elaborate
> solution I talked about earlier (getting a second sound device) or by 
> simply
> silencing it as you say below. Since you asked about it, I assumed you
> weren't happy to simply silence jaws. That's why I explained the more
> elaborate solution.
>
> Well, sorry, after all this, I don't have a solution for you. As I said, I
> just swap the cables when I want to switch from PC speakers to the stereo.
> But you should check if your PC speakers have a headphone jack. You might 
> be
> able to plug the cable that goes from the HT into that.
>
> I said I do that swapping all the time but the truth is that I don't do 
> that
> any more. I went the opposite direction from what you're trying to do. I
> pretty much listen to everything on my PC now. I have the line-out from 
> the
> stereo connected to the line-in on my PC. So I can listen to radio & TV on
> my PC. In fact, what I usually do is connect to the streaming media server
> on my PC via my home network. So I pretty regularly listen to TV shows on 
> my
> IPod while walking around the house or out on the deck.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:19 PM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
> Hello John and everyone,
>
>    Actually you're on to what we're trying to do listen to audio stored
> locally or streams from the Internet over our stereo without having to
> disconnect and reconnect the PC speakers and be able to run RCA cables 
> from
> the stereo to an audio connector in order to have both devices connected 
> to
> line-out from the PC so we can send the computer audio through the HT when
> we wish to use it for listening and still leave the PC speakers connected
> for when we just want to hear audio from the PC only. Obviously the HT 
> would
> be tuned to another audio or video source such as a local radio station or
> the T.V. I hope this makes sense.
>
>    As for JAWS going over the HT when we're listening to audio from the PC
> good old JAWS Key+spacebar followed by letter "S" will stop that in a 
> hurry
> and restart JAWS when we're ready to use the PC again! I use it all the
> time. I hope this clears up the confusion.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 11:33 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
>
> Well, I am more confused than ever.
>
> You're doing something like streaming on your PC and you want to listen to
> it on the speakers of your HT, right?  Maybe you have Pandora on your PC 
> and
> you want to play it on the speakers of your home theater, right? Something
> like that?
>
> I do that all the time. I have a cable with lef/right RCA jacks on one 
> end.
> That end plugs into the auxiliary jacks on the stereo. The other end has 
> an
> 8mm stereo jack that plugs into the line-out on the PC sound card. The
> problem is that the PC speakers are usually plugged in there. I have to
> unplug the PC speakers to plug in the stereo.
>
> The other problem is that when I'm listening to Pandora or some other 
> stream
> on my stereo, the screen reader audio can be heard on the stereo.  I
> actually use a Mac for all this but it's the same concept.  Pretty often, 
> my
> friends come over and want me to find some video on UTube. But sometimes 
> we
> miss part of it because voiceover is talking.  It is annoying to have the
> screen reader blabbering while you're trying to listen to something on
> UTube.
>
> But these are not the problems you are trying to address?
>
> PS: Pandora is an amazing service. I just found about about it last 
> summer.
> If you haven't checked it out, you should. Really good content, hardly any
> ads.
>
>
> ----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:13 AM
> To: NFB in Computer Science Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
> Hello John and everyone,
>
>    Since the stereo has the "Auxiliary" mode we could stop JAWS from 
> coming
> over the HT when we're not playing music from the PC. Just being able to
> install an adapter in to which the line-out from the PC can be plugged in 
> to
> and lines from the PC speakers and going to the HT would also need to be
> plugged in to the same switch. When listening to the T.V. or the radio we
> would need to leave auxiliary so wouldn't get JAWS through the HT but it
> would still come through the PC speakers so we can use the computer while
> listening to other programming through the HT.
>
>    The only other way I know to do this is with a mixer but we're trying 
> to
> be budget-conscious so the switch idea would be what we'd need to make 
> this
> happen in time for the holidays. We've recorded lots of holiday programs 
> in
> years past and want to hear them over the HT when we're tired of hearing
> "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"you get the idea. I hope this makes 
> more
> sense.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John G. Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> To: "'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
>
> Maybe I'm not understanding the question but it seems to me that a simple
> audio switch isn't going to let you have jaws speak through the PC 
> spekaers
> and the game or movie audio go to the entertainment center.  I don't think
> there is any logical way around the fact that you need two sound devices 
> in
> your PC to do that.
> You could get an audio switch and have the output for both the movie and
> jaws go to the entertainment center or to the PC speakers. But not both.
>
> I think you need a second sound ard for your PC and then you have to
> configure your software to direct its audio output to the appropriate
> device. Probably the easiest thing to do would be to swap out the current 
> PC
> speakers for a pair oof USB speakers. Windows would make them the default
> sound device therefore jaws and all other Windows audio would go through
> them by default. Then you'd have to configure your game or movie software 
> to
> send its audio through the sound card.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peter Donahue
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 3:24 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Talk Mailing List
> Cc: PC audio discussion list. ; NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List
> Subject: [nfbcs] Connecting stereo to Computer
>
> Good afternoon everyone,
>
>    I may have asked this before but can't remember what I was told since
> it's been so long ago. We're wanting to connect our home theatre to my
> wife's computer since it's in our living room with the home theatre. The
> home theatre has an "Auxiliary In" setting that would allow us to do this.
> We have two speakers that are connected directly to the computer. These 
> are
> for pc-only audio such as for hearing JAWS when we're on the computer.
> Naturally we don't want JAWS going over the home theatre. When the
> "Auxiliary"setting is activated we would hear the audio from the computer
> over the home theatre which is what we want. One way to do this is with a
> mixer but that's over-kill for now. I thought I heard there are switches
> that one can install to make this possible. I believe the line-out from 
> the
> computer plugs in to the switch. It would then be a matter of connecting 
> the
> computer speakers to the switch and the lines from the home theatre to it 
> as
> well allowing us to hear PC audio through the home theater speakers when 
> we
> wish or simply to use the PC speakers for computer audio only. I'd like 
> some
> recommendations on such devices and feedback on how usable they are. 
> Thanks
> for the assistance.
>
>  Peter and Mary Donahue who are looking forward to hearing holiday concert
> broadcasts in our collection on our schedule not that of the radio 
> station.
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> Peter Donahue
>
> "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper."
> Isaiah 54:17
>
> "While for our princes they prepare
> In caverns deep a burning snare,
> He shot from heaven a piercing ray,
> And the dark treachery brought to day."
> Anonymous
>
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