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Custom VM Greeting
I would like to use an audio file (mp3 etc) to change my voicemail greeting. Can this audio file be used as a custom replacement?
Well no. You can always call in to voicemail and record a new greeting. The visual voicemail app allows you to change greetings at least on the Android version. When I had an iPhone I could record a greeting by calling voicemail and going through the menu for voicemail greeting. Digits had no effect on that. But to be clear I never got digits to work correctly with my iPhone.
but like I said previously if you'll call in to your voicemail select your voicemail greeting and record a new greeting you can record whatever is playing in the background from another speaker and that can be your new greeting.
PSasquatch wrote:Headphone out on the computer to what input on an iPhone XR?
Ahhh, yes...Apple and its walled garden of evil.
My comment above assumes Android phones, and I guess the old iPhone models that still had the regular 1/8 inch headphone jack.
But...you iPhoners have that special dongle thing!
You know the one I mean - it’s the one that connects the proper, working-class 1/8th inch male plug used by every headphone manufacturer for the last quarter of a century to the iPhone’s dainty proprietary thunderport that Apple foisted on the world solely to peddle more proprietary, overpriced, plastic-packaged accessories (aka to make your lives miserable and difficult and to inflict further ruin and depredation upon our mother planet) - that should still work with the above method, unless Apple’s geniuses built in some weird no-no into the system to block you from specifically doing this very thing.
This would be somewhat challenging from a technical perspective:
Whether it's a hands-free headset mic cable or the 3-channel RCA to 1/8th inch cable I mention in the previous comment, iPhone's special dongle would still have to accept analog audio input from the 3rd rail on those special combo 1/8th inch male plugs. Realistically, it would have no way to differentiate, unless they have some failsafe thing that disables the analog mic input if there's too much gain on the signal. Basically, start playback with the volume all the way down and gently turn up by tiny amounts as you test it out.
So, in short, here’s the cord sculpture you’ll be assembling:
Laptop or other audio playback source ➡ 1/8th inch (male) to MONO RCA (male) ➡ RCA (female) to RCA (female) connector piece ➡ the YELLOW end of the 3-channel RCA (male) to 1/8th inch (male) ➡ 1/8th inch (female) to Apple thunkerbort ➡ iPhone.
