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Splitting the audio jack

Splitting the audio jack

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Splitting the audio jack

- The challenge with the iPad, iPhone, everything else, - Yeah. - There is only one port. - Yeah, and it's not the greatest port in the world. There's two ports if you're honest with yourself. There's a headphone port, and then there's either a charging, sort of data port, whether that's gonna be a lightning connector or the more traditional Wii connector that the iPad uses. - Yeah, so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna split this port. This is just a standard Wii cable. You can get it from just about anywhere, - [Man with glasses] Yup. - and it takes it from the headphone/microphone jack - [Man with glasses] Yup. - into two separate ports. Essentially, if you look at the end of the cable-- there is a difference between these two-- if it's a headphone cable, it's got one black band. When it's a headphone/microphone cable, it's got two black bands. And that's how you know the type of plug it is. So this is gonna split it. This is a microphone and a headphone, so I can take the…

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