• I_Miss_Daniel
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    9 months ago

    In case you’re wondering, some broadcast equipment, such as the Axia Radius, uses Ethernet sockets for the connection of balanced and unbalanced audio.

    This simplifies cabling, but you need adapters at the end of each cable to go back to RCA, TRS, XLR etc.

  • @bastian_5
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    499 months ago

    How else did you think they got the dialup noises to play?

    • @[email protected]
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      49 months ago

      Useless, you can’t charge from USB-a!

      (Seriously, it would be a fun project to stuff a USB powersupply in the 400v plug and a add a USB-c cable to mess with people at work… I’d do it but we only have 230v 3-phase outlets and that plug is probably too small.)

      • Veticia
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        19 months ago

        I think you can fit a fairly powerful GaN charger in that space.

    • @Lucidlethargy
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      89 months ago

      No you can’t. That’s stereo. You can only hear the internet yell at you.

      You’d need three lines for an output.

    • @Chais
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      39 months ago

      And it will be just as useful as without that adapter.

  • @[email protected]
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    339 months ago

    You could use it if you had another one with a female headphone jack. You could play your music to a speaker in another room if you have Ethernet in both rooms. Copper is copper.

    • @EatSleepBatheRepeat
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      189 months ago

      I’ve done this. I’ve made speaker wire to ethernet adaptors to connect speakers in a different room through the walls to an amp. Feels and probably is so wrong.

      • @[email protected]
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        89 months ago

        It really depends how much power you put through the cable, ethernet is something like 0.2 mm2 per core. You’d definitely want to double up cores.

    • Inductor
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      129 months ago

      While, as you said, both wires will conduct electricity just fine, they will have different AC impedance.

      I would guess this wouldn’t make much of a difference if you go Audio->Ethernet->Audio, since sound is at fairly low frequencies. But Ethernet->Audio->Ethernet might have problems with really high data rates, like GiB/s.

    • sethboy66
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      29 months ago

      Hell, 10/100base-t only uses four wires so you could run internet through a 4-pole 3.5; though YMMV depending on the particular 3.5mm’s specs. I don’t know if drivers would be a problem, but perhaps a 4-pole 3.5 to USB would be handy.

      Easy AliExpress purchase

    • Amilo159
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      79 months ago

      So you’re saying all those gold plated, vibranium braided, ultra expensive hi-fi cables audiophiles buy can actually help carry good speeds over a useless adapter system?!

    • Techognito
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      69 months ago

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  • @[email protected]
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    169 months ago

    I mean, the PinePhone has a switch to change the audio jack from audio into some kind of data transfer protocol. I guess someone could make it work.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        I use 3.5 stereo as an rs232 connector all the time. A poe ethernet to serial would be a huge help to me.

    • kutch
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      69 months ago

      I think you would need another connection (ie. a 3rd stripe, TRRS vs TRS cable) for data transfer. Although digital audio is all data anyways I guess and now I don’t even feel right but I’ve already typed it out.

  • ackzsel
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    169 months ago

    I totally used an adapter like that. It did have a raspberry pi in the middle, though.

  • @icerunner
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    159 months ago

    Finally, I can connect my Sinclair ZX Spectrum to Ethernet!

    • meseek #2982
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      49 months ago

      Only if you have the TRS to D-DVI converter, and those are super super rare.

    • @[email protected]
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      19 months ago

      You joke, but it happens… I’ve had to deal with it supporting credit card processing. Once had a guy calling on a magic jack complaining that his credit card machine couldn’t connect. Once I found out he used the same magic jack for both, I had to explain that in the same way we could barely understand each other through the distortion, the credit card machine was having the same problem.

  • @[email protected]
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    129 months ago

    i made a male version of this 4 times and then bought a ABC RJ45 switchbox for my work desk, so i could choose between computer audio and desk phone audio and cellphone audio through my work headphones… lets you bump your own music in between calls without dealing with pause buttons etc… worked great.

    • @[email protected]
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      09 months ago

      A manual switch?

      Does it care that it isn’t the sort of signal it is expecting? I guess since it’s a physical switch it may not care.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        yes its a manual switch, the analog audio signal doesn’t know or care. those boxes have no electronics.

        some older people enjoy having a oversized knob to play with.