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Re: Custom VM 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 daintyproprietary 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) toApple thunkerbort➡iPhone. This thing...but it doesn't need to have the thunderbolt female entrance. Also, notice the three plastic divider rings on the 1/8th male end instead of the usual two. Make sure your RCA to 1/8th has that, otherwise it will not work.
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Re: Custom VM Greeting
vjtk wrote: These guys do it all. T hey have a voice-over service (including writing the greeting script) and transfer the greeting to your phone in super high quality. I couldn't find anything better online anywhere. https://www.okcvideoproduction.com/upload-custom-voicemail-greeting-wav-mp3 This is literally the worst thing I've seen all month. Whoever is shamelessly charging people HUNDREDS of dollars to upload an MP3 file as a voicemail greeting needs to be tarred and feathered in a public square immediately. It should make any honest human beinglivid to learn that unscrupulous jerks have the gall to rip unwary, technologically-challenged people off like this...and are getting away with it! And you know anyone falling for this scam is, like, well over 50 years old - so this is literally elderly abuse. Also, how come THEY get backdoor access to my tmobile voicemail greetings?! If so, why is tmobile complicit in this?!!! Or do they just, like, send you an audio file and go "well your visual voicemail appshouldhave the option to..." IN ANY CASE, AN ALTERNATE (AND EXPONENTIALLY CHEAPER) SOLUTION PRESENTS ITSELF: Apparently, the "easiest" way to do this is to use a 1/8th inch to RCA wire - but with all THREE of the RCA outputs.I don't have one on hand to test out if it works, but what is supposed to happen is that the 3rd RCA out - the yellow one, commonly used for video - corresponds to a "hidden" mic input that is built into the headphone jack, which is how those dorky telemarketer hands-free headphones/mic headsets pipe the mic audio from the headset, overriding the built-in mic. From there on out, it's easy peasy: the RCA output can be plugged into anything that emits sound. If you have an 1/8 to single RCA converter piece, you can run the 3rd RCA out into your computer's headphone jack, or whatever you have that plays audio out of an 1/8th inch jack. (Make sure your audio file is MONO, 'cause you only get 1 channel.) The only thing to keep in mind is that, compared to a mic input, the line out on most devices is very very loud. So you'll have to turn your playback volume down way low and experiment until you get it nice and loud - but not clipping up past the zero DB point. (There's probably some app out there that lets you monitor the mic input level.) This should be a somewhat cleaner way of solving this problem than, say, trying to hold your phone to a speaker that's playing back your custom greeting.It's not perfect, and a simple "upload audio file" function to that visual voice mail app would have saved me hours of anger, headache,and fruitless rummaging around the basement. Just because the world is full of dumbed-down, coddled, complacent kinder-adults doesn't mean companies should treat their userbase as if they are all cut from that cloth.
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