You may also play music from any audio device through the universal 3.5mm aux line-in jack.
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In fact, on the iPhone, it imitates a Bluetooth audio device, even though it doesn't do audio.
Connecting to any audio device is easy using the 3.5mm auxiliary cable (included).
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The BlackShark plugs directly into any device with a 3.5mm audio jack, offering compatibility with nearly every audio device on the market today.
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This film is form-fitted onto an audio device and creates wide area surface contact with the skin, or the inside of the ear canal.
The Aud 5 is Bluetooth-enabled for wireless music streaming, and also features a 3.5mm auxiliary input for a direct connection to almost any audio device.
Fortunately, Pioneer was thoughtful enough to include an auxiliary audio input on both units, so 4900 owners can still plug in and play whatever audio device takes their fancy.
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The new Z-Base sound bars offer two analog audio inputs, one optical (toslink) digital input, one coaxial digital input - plus a front panel 3.5mm analog stereo input for convenient connection of an iPod or other portable audio device.
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You can counteract that mic placement by adding your own audio capture device thanks to the standard microphone input jack that joins HDMI and USB connectors on the left side.
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Most importantly, it works impressively well, which was amply shown by the demonstration we were given with the device permanently submerged in water at the booth, streaming its audio to another device.
For alternate methods of routing audio through the device, there's a USB port that can play digital audio files straight off of various PMPs and USB thumb drives.
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We weren't able to test the audio prowess of the device in our brief interaction, but it felt reasonably good to hold in our hands overall.
As a test, I downloaded files from HDtracks.com, an online retailer specializing in hi-res audio, plugged a device known as a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) into my computer and listened over earphones.
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You then played them back and the Griffin device converted the audio signal to IR signals.
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With its input jack, Mikey Digital transforms from a mic into a direct interface for recording guitar, connecting a lavaliere mic or capturing line level audio straight to your iOS device.
These APIs enable the recognition of music from text lookups, CDs, digital files and audio captured with a mobile device, and returns descriptive metadata for more than 2, 000 music genres and sub-genres, artist origins, and more than 100 music moods.
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Audio purists will appreciate the device's new 5.1-channel sound enhancement technology and support for the MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, AAC, M4A, WAV and MP3HD audio codecs, and video hounds will love being able to playback MPEG4, WMV, H.264, Xvid and Divx files.
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The KOR-fx product is platform-independent and works with any device that has an audio output.
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Brown says the device supports WMA streaming audio files that will allow you to listen to Internet radio stations.
Second, audio and video settings for each device that the customer wants to support need to be created and tested.
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The device has a unique audio amplifier that powers the 3.5mm audio jack and speaker to provide improved sound for music, video and even gaming.
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The device comes with complete audio instructions.
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Rhapsody is the original premium, ad-free on-demand music service, with more than one million members, who can listen to more than 16 million tracks on their favorite device, including connected audio systems, smartphones, iPads and Android tablets, MP3 players, connected TVs, gaming consoles and in-car audio.
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Whether connected to a current Denon receiver or other product, audio and video signals are sent via analog audio output and S-Video to the respective inputs on a connected device in order to view the GUI and hear the audio.
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The device can also handle streaming audio and video, a huge improvement over the old dumb terminals and critical for the high-bandwidth future.
The 20W box will play audio streamed from any AirPlay-capable device on the same WiFi network while it sits demurely on a wall outlet.
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Don Katz saw the way the internet would revolutionise audio distribution, and the first storage device Audible.com produced is now an exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.
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