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Re: [microsound] lane-line phone recording



It seems like it should be possible though, as you can hear the modem connecting through your audio out. So the modem does in fact connect to your machine's audio system at some point, though I've never heard of an app that could utilize that.

k


On Mar 9, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Aaron Ximm wrote:

time to set up an MD or anything on his end... i am just wondering
about the possibility of direct recording of a modem input on a mac.
even if there was a way to keep the port open and record it as though
it were a speaker phone.. that would help.  thanks for responses so
far!

If I understand you, you want to use the Mac to record in some normal
audio app. You want to record off a phone line, so you're thinking, hey,
why not plug the phone into the mac's built-in modem port?


Knowing nothing about contemporary macs -- does the same port ever get
used, say, to make your mac a speaker phone, an answering machine, etc?

I would GUESS not (anymore) and if that's the case, there's a 99% chance
this will not work; that phoneline probably goes directly to a
modem-on-a-chip and whatever A/D is done to transceive modem data is
probably invisible to the system.


I could be wrong though! If you *can* use the modem port to make your mac
say an answering machine, that implies that the system can read/write an
audio stream to that plug and your idea is a good one -- as long as
someone wrote software to do it for you... :)


But pending any other ideas I would recommend just buying one of the phone
tappers, and running into the line/mic in on the Mac...


 aaron

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