[LINUX/MAC/WINDOWS] Microphone and Line in input for karaoke and musical instrument?

You could set something up to turn the line audio into a stream which can be played by xbmc.

sijones Wrote:allowing renaming would also be good, so it doesn't just read line in..

Yes..
My intention was to output from a turntable, so somethink like vinyl sounds better than "line in"

bobo1on1 Wrote:You could set something up to turn the line audio into a stream which can be played by xbmc.

It's a nice workaround... specially for xbox users.
But it would be great have a line in as native option in xbmc, as all pc's with soundcar have this kind of connection.

Hi... I have this great wireless microphone from DATEL, and it would be fun to use that in the karaoke mode, in XBMC

I did try to connect via USB adapter, but no luck ! And I am sure that it must be a driver problem.

Is there anyway to fix that ??

Hi!

I'm trying to use my wii usb mic (Logitech USB Microphone) with xbmc live and I can't.

I can record some sound in a prompt using this command:
arecord -f cd -D plughw:1,0 -d 20 test.wav

The alsamixer do not allow me to increase the mic sound like it does allow for the builtin card. I have this error:
"This sound device does not have any playback controls."

I'm feeling that I'm close to get this usb mic to work but now I'm lost.

Unfortunately the XBMC system audio configuration or even the audiomixer program addon do not allow me to configure the usb mic. There's no audio input device, only audio output device

Any thoughts about this?

Thanks a lot!
Oscar

http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=HOW-TO_setup...or_Karaoke

What is not currently supported:
* Using digitized microphone input. The microphone should work in pass-through mode, but will not work in digitized mode, where the sound should be digitally processed by XBMC Media Center. This also means that any voice post-processing is not possible yet.

So I'm guessing all USB Microphones are no good then?

If you want Karaoke, use Ultrastar Deluxe. You can use your Mic with that

Just tried adding that through the command line in XBMCLive.
Install's but wont run.

Quote:xbmc@XBMCLive:/usr/local/bin$ ultrastardx
init kbd.
An unhandled exception occurred at $08081CB4 :
EAccessViolation : Access violation
$08081CB4
$080ED267
$080E2D01
$080A2860

Looks like I need to bloat out my install just to get Karaoke working.

If it will work with Ultrastar, how come not XBMC Live...?!

Can anyone explain how to get a microphone working in XBMC, the wiki doesn't really cover that. I have an Acer Revo 3610 dual boot with Win7 and Ubuntu, and also an Xbox. Does karaoke work on any of these systems? My mic works in both Ubuntu and Win7 (record, and then playback), but it does nothing in XBMC (no voice). It's plugged into the microphone jack, shouldn't it work?

Thanks.

DejaVu77 Wrote:If it will work with Ultrastar, how come not XBMC Live...?!

It will if someone (you?) writes code to handle the mic on Linux, Windows and Mac. Maybe you?

Optionally you may set up your sound card into passthrough mode (enable mic in playback mode), and it will work.