Audacity Forum

Have you cleaned the heads and the transport mechanism (the capstan and the pinch roller)? See this page in the Audacity Wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Recording_from_Cassette Also it's worth running the tape from end to end and back again before you start the recording to retension the tap...

I am disappointed that Audacity offers no phone support .Thank you We only make the open-source software for which the price is $0.00 - we don't make (or profit from) the hardware. Plus we're only a band of part-time volunteers, not a major corporation. Try a read of this set of Tutorials from the ...

"Falls over in the dust" is not a useful bug report. I suggest you repost details to the -quality list, bearing in mind that WDM-KS lets applications take exclusive control of the sound device. Gale, I posted a *very* detailed report to -quality some time back - you said you had not seen ...

So when using alpha builds you prefer it to WDM-KS? Absolutely - that's why I said it was my "host-of-choice" - and that's after extensive testing - and using alpha+WASAPI for a *lot* of production work. My impression is that WASAPI non-loopback is more buggy than WDM-KS non-loopback. It ...

steve wrote:

clothears wrote:In Audacity, WASAPI is for recording what is playing on your computer (that's what the "loopback" means).

I use it that way for recording what's playing on the computer - but it also works well recording from my external USB soundcard - it is now my standard host-of-choice.

WC

Also, you might find this set of tutorials in the Audacity Manual useful Tutorial - Copying tapes, LPs or MiniDiscs to CD

WC

I have Audacity 2.0.6, .exe installer and Windows 7 Pro. I am using Audacity (many thanks) to record some old audio cassettes (and will do LPs later). I am getting to grips with it (thanks to help on this forum) and although much much more complex than I need (I am a simple user with a simple task ...

"But is it really necessary for audio cassette?" Commercially recorded cassette tapes were always crap. OTOH, I used Nakamichi 582 with metal tape, and A/B comparions with TEAC open reel, "master" quality LPs (Telearc), or CDs themselves, couldn't tell the tapes from the highest...

steve wrote: No reason not to do both and cross-reference them. The wiki is much better suited to handling the detail. Bugzilla is good as a summary that can be more easily tracked (but not good for long, detailed discussion).

+1 to that, way to go ...

Bill. I would support that too - but it gets a bit lost in that Proposal page - maybe you should also create a Bugzilla enhancement entry for that (some of the key developers prefer that route to long proposals).

WC