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

I'd like to connect the line-level output from my hi-fi to a computer's microphone input (it doesn't have a line-in jack).

Is anyone aware of a commercially available adapter for this purpose?

Alternatively, what do I need to know to build one? Is a simple voltage-divider sufficient for this?

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Adam Funk
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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:

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Jan Panteltje

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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.

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melee5

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.

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Jan Panteltje

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

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Adam Funk

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

[snipped nice diagram]

Thanks for the details, however!

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I heard that Hans Christian Andersen lifted the title for "The Little
Mermaid" off a Red Lobster Menu.                         [Bucky Katt]
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Adam Funk

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