Help me with the cables!

At my most organized I used twistie-ties (the velcro ties sounds more effective but is also maybe more expensive?) on the cables individually, sorted them by type and size and hung them using corkboard and metal hooks.

Nowadays it's all plastic tubs and piles though d'oh.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardishungry/2180647203/

im looking for a cable to connect both my laptop AND my pc into my stereo, so im guessing two 3.5mm jacks at one end, and one stereo phono connection (red & whites) at the other. does this cable exist? im having no luck with google at all. or is there a better way to do this? at the moment i have to muck about unplugging cables each time and it's a bit of a pain.

(so the sound from my pc or laptop plays out through the stereo, not sure if i made that clear in my post just there)

go to a dj shop

and ask them

yeah probably will if no one on here can help. im guessing it's a fairly common problem though so fingers crossed

serious I've had times when I had zero luck finding various cables online, and then walked into a dj shop and they've had everything.

You need a switch box. 2x 3.5mm stereo to 2xphono into a switch box and then 2xphono to 2xphono to the stereo.

ooh, while it's on my mind, does anyone have a cheap and reliable way to get analogue audio (either 1/4" or 1/8") >> usb? I've now gone through two 'solutions' (griffin imic and m-audio fast track) that have both stopped working after very little use.

I know, I know, go to a dj store.

I use a $99 thing called the Stealthplug -- straightforward 1/4" to USB line with a direct-monitoring output. (ASIO drivers, comes with a tracker and amp modeling software.)

P.S.: NI, I think what you should look for is not a cord with two inputs (which seems mythical/unlikely) but a tiny, simple, no-frills, two-way A-B switcher (or even just a seriously cheapo two-line mixer).

i am staring at seven jumbled boxes of cables and leads with every kind of connector or jack, plus a mix of old plugs and chargers

i feel like some of them are worth hanging onto and some are very much not, but i don't really know how to begin sort which from which -- i have a weirdly poor memory for what once went with what, even two years ago is now a blank to me (i like to tell myself this is efficient use of human brainspace)

apologies for posting my own tweet but it saves have to faff around with imgur:

is there any practical reason to hang on to leads like THIS in 2022? what might still be using them? pic.twitter.com/fY45rE4zgj

— 🐛🔥🐝 muad'dob bee 🐝🔥🐛 (@dubdobdee) April 30, 2022

That's the ropiest looking MIDI cable I've seen in a long time. Assuming it's wired as a MIDI cable that it - the connectors at least are correct. I'd probably bin it either way.

it's 30+ years old is my only excuse (i have four in all, in no better condition: i have no idea what i used them for once upon a time)

It’s most likely a 5 pin audio DIN cable, used to plug a tape deck into a receiver or similar instead of two RCA pairs.

5 pin audio DIN seems to be the consensus, most likely for a tape deck