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04 Jan 03 - 01:00 PM (#858543) Subject: Tech: I killed my Powerbook CD sound From: GUEST,JTT I decided to put some music onto minidiscs for the car - bought one of those yokes that plugs into the tape player (argh, I want a car CD player; in fact I want a better car *with* a CD player... and throw in a good job, lots of money... ) Anyway, I plugged in the USB devide to the minidisc and tried to record; couldn't remember if I was supposed to plug the other end into the microphone jack (logical), the Line In jack or the speaker jack. Tried it with all of them; the thing appeared to record, but nothing played. Then I tried playing the CD on the computer, and no sound came out either. Tried a different CD, no sound. But the system sounds are working all right, and you can hear the modem dialling. I've obviously killed the CD sound; iTunes apparently plays the CD, but thar ain't no bluegrass comin' outa them thar speakers. And yes, I've tried the CD on another player, and tried a different CD on the computer. Tried messing with the Sound control panel; no luck. Tried restarting; tried running Disk Warrior. Help! |
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04 Jan 03 - 10:17 PM (#858908) Subject: RE: Tech: I killed my Powerbook CD sound From: Amos SoundControl panel has output settings which should be set to speakers if you have them or to internal if not. The Mindisk Recorder is not a USB device unless you have the latest model which comes with a little stand with a USB plug in it -- do you mean an iMic USB adapter? Anyway, if you are recording from a CD player to your Mindisc Recorder, it is either a patch cord (analog) from the earphones plug to Mic In, or an optical patch cord to Line In, at least on the two i have worked with so far. Hope this helps. A |
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09 Jan 03 - 09:09 AM (#862508) Subject: RE: Tech: I killed my Powerbook CD sound From: GUEST,JTT The USB input came with the minidisc recorder - so did an optical cable and an ordinary sound jack; I can't find the sound jack at the moment, though. I can hear all the system sounds, but can't hear any music. Damn thing! |
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09 Jan 03 - 11:02 AM (#862626) Subject: RE: Tech: I killed my Powerbook CD sound From: Amos JTT -- I assume by now you have zapped the PRAM and exhaustively inspected all relevant settings. It sounds like it must be a SW problem because you can hear alerts and such. This implies that some application has logically captured the sound port and is preventing other applications from streaming data to it. Try hauling the whole Prefs folder to the desktop, as BBW suggested, so as to detemrine whether or not Prefs of SOME sort are causing the glitch. It's time to back up all your document files. I smell a reinstallation coming... A |
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16 Jan 03 - 01:49 PM (#868507) Subject: RE: Tech: I killed my Powerbook CD sound From: GUEST,JTT And indeed it was Amos' wife, a genius who's a professional Mac consultant, who fixed this for me in a breath. She told me to take out all the Preferences on to the desktop and restart; if I then had sound, I should return the Preferences to their proper place in bunches, testing the sound between each bunch. The villain proved to be the iTunes prefs, which I thought I'd already trashed. If anyone (rich, preferably) needs a super Mac consultant, you know where to find one now. |