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2k1Toaster · 12-11-2006, 08:36 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by atomic punk

Hm. All good ideas, thanks...

But I really don't want to replace my Sirius receiver (the Sportster replay with the 45 minute pause/Rw/FF feature is great, plus it was a gift to me).

Idea: what if I hooked up the audio out of my Sirius unit to the Mic (line) IN of my laptop, and the laptop A/V out to the A/V in of my head unit? I wonder if that would work. I could leave the head unit on "AUX" all the time and have the Sirius or DVD or MP3 or GPS coming through theoretically at the same time (switch between sources at the laptop screen or leave the Sirius & GPS on all the time. The MS windows volume control would control the relative volumes of the two sources)

Is there any reason why this would not work???

Yes it will work for sound assuming you have a program that takes the audio in and streams it to the wave channel for output and not just stores it to the disk.

Also there will be no control over the unit from the laptop. So you will have volume control now on 3 devices (HU, laptop, Tuner) as well as buttons to control everything sprawled out everywhere.

Not optimal in my opinion, but whatever work for you.

Yes it should work though.

12-11-2006, 08:36 PM	#6
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