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HyoLee:
Is there any gigabeat line-out dock available here?
I want to get one.

Chronon:
You're probably better off looking for an auction at a place like eBay, or similar.  I just got a new remote for my Gigabeat recently.  I have seen docks for sale in the past.

stimulus:
I built a Line Out cable using the Toshiba E400 / E800 cable from Ebay, as described.   Soldering to those small pitch pins was tough on my old eyes.  You do not need coupling capacitors. 

99wktam:
Hi there,

I just got the connector from Chris ( THANKS CHRIS!!!) and I DIY today.  The DIY cable works. You only need to connect pin 5,6&7 only.

Please see below





Mike


--- Quote from: ej0rge on March 14, 2009, 12:38:55 AM ---A better question at this juncture is actually whether coupling capacitors are required.

I've purchased some e405 cables (cheaper than buying the connector alone) - the ones i got are simpler than the one pictured in the wiki because it doesn't have a pc board - just wires soldered to the pins sticking out the back of the connector.

This means that there's room in the handle for a small kobiconn 3.5mm jack and potentially a pair of high quality 10uf caps, if they're needed.

I realize that i could test this out for myself, but i'm curious if anyone has ever actually built one of these. That and I've pretty much exhausted my free hacking time for the weekend.

Also interesting that the F and S series apparently have at least the line-out pins in the same place.

And I'm curious whether the line-out is enabled all the time or not. Apparently on the Zune 30 (a direct descendant of the gigabeat S) the line-out is disabled by default, much to the consternation of people who've tried to build diy line-out docks for them. But that could be a software issue.

EDIT - because i can't reply

Alright, I built a simple LOD connecting pins 5, 6, and 7 on the dock connector to a mini jack, 5 and 6 through 10uf caps just in case.

This DOES NOT WORK. I hear mostly silence, a little bit of noise if i turn my headphone amp way up. nothing like music.

Assuming the pinout is correct, this leads me back to my question of whether some features the dock connector has to be turned on, perhaps by pulling pin 17 ("option detect") high or low. Or possibly 27 ("main detect"). Or maybe something else entirely.

I'm mostly in the dark here. Surely someone else has investigated the factory F series dock in some detail?



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a19als:

--- Quote from: 99wktam on March 27, 2009, 03:55:01 AM ---Hi there,

I just got the connector from Chris ( THANKS CHRIS!!!) and I DIY today.  The DIY cable works. You only need to connect pin 5,6&7 only.

Please see below





Mike



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good job!!

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