Re: [microsound] lane-line phone recording

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> 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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