Audacity Forum

Thank you for your response. I will look into the things you mentioned, but my question was prompted by my discovery of gaps in the tape directly after I'd tried to transfer the sound into Audacity. I wish the company that made these language tapes would provide a digital version, but they don't and...

Is it possible to ruin one's tapes in trying to convert to digital? I'm playing a tape that I tried to convert and now there are pauses.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

I just tried again for a few seconds with volume turned up. It was a horrifying noise. Scared everyone.

Thanks again. Audacity is (was) set for two channel-recording. Maybe I need to find a cassette player that has two output jacks so I don't have to use the headphone jack I'm now using with the headphone cord I have from my Bose earphones. I bought a Y-shaped cord from Radio Shack. I also noticed tha...

Dear alatham, Don't know if you got my earlier private message saying that I'd tried to post a thank you for your response, but I just tried your suggestions, including using the blue port and I did get it to record. It's a rough job with a lot of empty space from recording after the tape stopped (I...

My original message should have read as follows. Sorry, last minute editing change that screwed-up the meaning. Hi. This is the second time in a few years that I've tried to record some spoken language cassette tapes using Audacity. I was unsuccessful the first time and I failed again on the second ...

Hi. This is the second time in a few years that I've tried to record some spoken language cassette tapes using Audacity. I was unsuccessful the first time and I failed again on the second try. I have a large old portable cassette player and a Dell Dimension 8300 PC with a SB Creative!!! sound card w...