Adapting a hi-fi's line-out to a computer's microphone input?

On a sunny day (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:30:31 +0100) it happened Adam Funk wrote in :

First, mic input is mono, one pin carries DC. Yes, you can use a divider, summ the 2 stereo line outputs into one resistor.

right ---R1 ---- |-------------- mic left --- R1 ----| - | | R2 | | | /// ///

Make R1 about 10k Make R2 600 Ohm

Mike input:

=A0 =A0 [Bucky Katt]

I would just get a sound card with a Line in on it? I think I spent $20 on mine and it has one, I can't believe you don't. But then my Uncle's TV doesn't have Closed Captioning ability either so I'm ready to believe just about anything at this point.

On a sunny day (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:25:14 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@my-deja.com wrote in :

Asus eePC 701 only has mike and headphone out, so you can for example connect a headset for Skype. It is not intended for recording from audio sources. But you can download audio and play via the speakers or headphones. Nothing wrong with that.

Making a real good quality recording on a PC requires a top end soundcard. Not an emu10 based soundblaster for example. My experience with some 20$ no-name soundcards is that they lay now in some cupboard... noisy.

It's a laptop. Maybe I should consider an external USB device with a line-in jack?

I'd forgotten about that ... maybe I should just look into an external device with line-in.

Thanks for the details, however!