• @[email protected]
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      It’s a digital to analog audio convertor for USB it looks like.

      If it also does analog to digital this might make sense as a way to verify sound output.

      I.e. debug a program that uses the headphone jack, or workaround software loopback device limitations.

      • @CameronDev
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        Given the white body, it could be a USB cable for one of the early iPod shuffles?

        • Kairos
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          It is exactly that. Really simple cable too. All of the apple 3.5mms are 4 pole (I think for play/pause, track seek capability) so it’s just a USB connector in a different form factor.

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        They exist, it seems. Actually, there might be a niche use case for audio editing or getting around some kind of software limitation. I have probably done worse in my day.

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      Sound output from USB to a device with an aux port, or sound input from a camera or microphone or other device with a 3.5 mm output (headphone jack)

      It’s incredibly short though.