What actually is this Rock Star thing? Is it meant to be an output splitter
you're using in reverse? How would it work with several things hooked to a
pair of headphones? What I had in mind was the desktop and laptop, one
machine to scan, and the other to type for potential work experiences, but
I'm thinking that I would be better off importing the OCR'd text into word
and editing the best I could and not messing with how to merge the keyboard
too.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Ford" <ke...@kellford.com>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 7:48 AM
Subject: RE: Merging Sound From Multiple Computers
Hello,
I finally got around to putting the Belkin RockStar I talked about here in
place. It works quite well.
I obtained it for $10 from Amazon including shipping and bought several
audio patch cables from www.deepsurplus.com for $0.95 each.
This is definitely no high end solution but for basic merging of the audio
from several computers works well. There is a slight drop in volume for
each device you connect but the audio sound itself isn't altered.
I now have five computers all using a single set of speakers
The RockStar comes with five female jacks. Just plug whatever you want
in,
be that sound in or out. There is also one attached cable that is to be
put
to an audio source. The RockStar itself also comes with one free standing
patch cord.
Again this is nothing high tech but does the job for what I wanted.
Kelly
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Schindler [mailto:garys5...@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 4:44 PM
To: PC Audio Discussion List
Subject: Re: Merging Sound From Multiple Computers
What would you think of using a passive mixer of some kind? as long as it
isn't padded down to much, you could run it into a main audio amplifier
with
a set of speakers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Ford" <ke...@kellford.com>
To: "'PC Audio Discussion List'" <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:00 PM
Subject: Merging Sound From Multiple Computers
Hello,
I'm trying to reduce the number of speakers I have for audio output from
a
batch of computers I use in my office at work. In days of old I plugged
several computers into a mixing board but that board quit working years
ago.
I'd like the audio from all the computers to play on one set of speakers.
Today I end up with about six different sets of speakers sitting around
my
office. I don't want a switch box because I want to hear the audio from
multiple machines.
Has anyone heard of or used something called the Belkin RockStar?
Details
are at
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-RockStar-3-5-mm-Headphone-Splitter/dp/tech-data
/B0017PG8KS/ref=de_a_smtd. This says it is to take one audio source and
split it between multiple headphones but I wonder it would work
reasonably
well in the other direction with the right cabling. That is plug cables
from the speaker jacks on all my computers into this and then connect one
set of speakers.
If not this device, any suggestionson how to accomplish this today with
another product. My low tech solution right now to help reduce speaker
clutter is to plug the audio from one computer into the Line In on a
second
and have that second computer just play the line in audio. This works
but
has limitations, such as when the computer hosting the line in audio
needs
to reboot.
Kelly
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