12-26-2015, 03:36 AM
(12-25-2015, 11:24 PM)Shaadaris Wrote: Merry Christmas and whatever!
I'm feeling a lot less apathetic today than I thought I would.
I also got quite a few small things I needed/wanted, despite having forgotten consistently to actually directly tell anyone what the hell I wanted.
So... Success?
On another note, why don't designers just make every headphone jack an in/out combo, even if the computer has a seperate mic jack?! It would make it so that, even if you have seperate jacks, you wouldn't need to buy a bloody splitter if you want your one-jack headphones-with-mic to have both parts work at the same time. Was really hoping that since these new headphones happen to have a mic it would allow me to finally use skype and record audio, etc. on my micless Desktop, but upon testing with my Laptop, it won't detect the mic unless I plug it into the mic jack, and even then it doesn't work, probably because the headphones are only meant for a single mixed jack... Or because they were technically supposed to be used with smartphones...
Mic and audio on the same line uses TRRS connector (ground, left, right, mic) - I believe not many computers support this and only have a TRS connector in the jack itself (ground, left, right) so microphones have to be plugged into a separate jack.
I'm not sure if this is exactly the case but I'd speculate why. I'm not sure why it still seems to be commonplace for 3.5mm jacks on computers (although a lot of headsets just work digitally via USB now anyway). Perhaps a soundcard would resolve the issue (it might provide a jack + drivers which support both?)