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From: Jonno on 30 Jan 2010 16:26
I am having trouble recording a cassette player onto XP.

(1) I play a cassette recorder into my PC's line-in and I can hear it
clearly in the speakers.

(2) I select line-in on XP's recording control (SNDVOL32.EXE).

(3) However when I press the record button on Audacity, there is no audio
signal displayed on the graph.

I also tried XP's Sound recorder (SNDREC32.EXE) and Windows Media Player.

Can you advise?
From: kony on 30 Jan 2010 16:55
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:26:41 GMT, Jonno
<johnno(a)mail.invalid> wrote:

>I am having trouble recording a cassette player onto XP.
>
>(1) I play a cassette recorder into my PC's line-in and I can hear it
>clearly in the speakers.
>
>(2) I select line-in on XP's recording control (SNDVOL32.EXE).
>
>(3) However when I press the record button on Audacity, there is no audio
>signal displayed on the graph.
>
>I also tried XP's Sound recorder (SNDREC32.EXE) and Windows Media Player.
>
>Can you advise?

IIRC, there is a menu choice in Audacity where you select
the recording source.
From: Jonno on 30 Jan 2010 16:58
On 21:26 30 Jan 2010, Jonno wrote:

> I am having trouble recording a cassette player onto XP.
>
> (1) I play a cassette recorder into my PC's line-in and I can hear it
> clearly in the speakers.
>
> (2) I select line-in on XP's recording control (SNDVOL32.EXE).
>
> (3) However when I press the record button on Audacity, there is no
> audio signal displayed on the graph.
>
> I also tried XP's Sound recorder (SNDREC32.EXE) and Windows Media
> Player.
>
> Can you advise?

I'm a step closer. Here's some more info ...

I turned the cassette player right down and played into the PC's mic input.
A VU meter utility shows nicely fluctuating audio levels and the recording
is ok.

When I select the PC's line input (and remove all input/output leads) then
the recording level is at its max. I still get a max reading with the
line-in sensitivity turned down in XP's Recording Control.

What's happening here?
From: Sjouke Burry on 30 Jan 2010 18:19
Jonno wrote:
> I am having trouble recording a cassette player onto XP.
>
> (1) I play a cassette recorder into my PC's line-in and I can hear it
> clearly in the speakers.
>
> (2) I select line-in on XP's recording control (SNDVOL32.EXE).
>
> (3) However when I press the record button on Audacity, there is no audio
> signal displayed on the graph.
>
> I also tried XP's Sound recorder (SNDREC32.EXE) and Windows Media Player.
>
> Can you advise?
Try AUDICITY
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