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analog (audio) via usb?
Comments (2)This is an area I have a lot of experience with. To avoid boring others, I'll give you a condensed reply. Email me (click on my name) if you want more detail. I trod this path almost 10 years ago and concluded that for me it was a big (and unnecessary) time waste. I gave up and have bought CDs to "digitize" my music collection. My music is now mostly ripped into lossless FLAC files (a FLAC file is the audio equivalent of ZIP, it's just a condensed version that reconstitutes back to the original on playback, with identical bit for bit content as the CD itself) Some will understandably say that a CD signal is something less than a true quality analog source and I agree. As for MP3 or other lossy formats, I hear the difference and I can't listen to them. No analog conversion is needed to produce a lossless FLAC or ALAC copy of a CD, it's digital all the way. Quality DACs and ADCs cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars. Don't fool yourself into thinking that some mickey mouse device will produce or reconsitute a quality digital signal. It won't. I tried with a ~$100 external sound card, the results (from a capture of an analog source out of my stereo system) weren't acceptable to me. Most people would have said "that sounds exactly like the record" - it sounded good, but inferior to a CD because of the inferior electronic signal path. Most PCs with Win 7 and up (maybe too with Vista) intentionally lack the drivers to allow capture of the sound card. There's probably some workaround to allow recording of a sound stream with something like Audacity, but since I gave up digitizing my substantial record collection (many hundreds of albums) some time ago, I stopped thinking about it. For those rare occasions I want to record something and it's sound for which the quality doesn't matter to me, I have a couple of old XP machines I use. So my solution was to buy CDs and rip 'em to FLAC. I still have the records and tapes, I never play them. (edited for typo) This post was edited by snidely on Wed, Jan 15, 14 at 20:34...See MoreComputer no longer recognizes my Printer
Comments (2)When you reinstalled the software for the printer, did you have it disconnected from your computer? HP usually requires all the software to be installed first, and then the hardware connected. If you still have your original setup instructions, follow those step by step and see if your printer is then recognized....See MoreMore on my post 'Computer won't recognize digital camera'
Comments (5)I know this is a long time coming. But I remembered this question when I ran across the following information recently. If you have XP Home, Go to your control panel, Double Click the Scanners and Cameras folder to open Connect your camera and turn it on then Right-click on the Camera Icon Left Click on Properties Left Click on the "Events" Tab in the Camera Pop-Up Window There you can either set a program such as "Microsoft Scanners and Camera Wizard" or put a check in "Prompt for which program to run". Which will open that options menu you speak of. There are two other choices there that are pretty well self explanatory. Make sure you click on "Apply" and "OK" If you Use Kodak Easy Share programs below is some other information about seeing your camera in My Computer. For a Windows XP operating system, it is not possible to see the camera as a drive letter when EasyShare software is installed. You can mount the camera as a drive using the Windows imaging acquisition (WIA) driver. To change from the Kodak driver to the WIA driver, do the following: Connect and turn on the camera. In the Transfer window, click Cancel. On the desktop, right-click the My Computer icon, and then select Properties. Select the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager. Click the + sign in front of Universal Serial Bus controllers, and then select the Kodak camera. Select the Driver tab, and then click Update Driver. Select Install from a list or specific location, and then click Next. Select Don't search. I will choose the driver to install, and then click Next. Select Digital Still Camera, and then click Next. Click Finish. Hope this helps Arlene...See Moreusb hub
Comments (6)Forgot to answer one of the other questions. It is a powered hub. I can plug my flash drive directly into the usb and it see it fine. It just doesn't see the hub. It didn't come with any software or drivers. I called tech support and the said to plug it directly into the wall and not the surge protector. I had to uninstall the unknown device and unplug/plug the usb cable back in. My computer recognized it as a "generic hub." Now, I'm back at square one. It appears to be an intermittent problem....See More- 10 years ago
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