Audacity Forum

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The first step is to connect the cassette player and make sure the Mac can see it.
-- Bill

... on a CD-ROM disc , (that will contain the driver software). Wikoo USB Cassette Converter Cassette Player ... Product description ... CD-ROM for installation ... ...

... I plugged the USB cord from the converter into a USB port on my MacBook Air ... ... all the recording played back was the ambient background noise made in the room, NOT the music from the cassette tape. Recording device should be USB thingy , not "built-in microphone" ... You ...

... To Mp3 Converter" off of Amazon recently, to be able to record off of a cassette tape, and convert it to an Mp3 file on my laptop. Audacity was the ... to it as the "Wikoo Converter" or just the "converter"). I plugged the USB cord from the converter into a USB port on my MacBook Air. After inserting ...

I am getting set up to record some old audio cassette tapes using the ION Tape Express machine with USB connected to Mac Mini (mid 2010), running on OS High Sierra. I can get Audacity to record but I ...

I purchased a new device for converting old music and voice CASSETTE tapes to digital files. I downloaded the newest Audacity software (see ... will not even recognize that I have the device plugged in via the mini usb to USB cable to my Mac. I suspect that IF I my computer will recognize the ...

... Audacity. You don't say which iMac you have. Newer (since 2011, at least) ones do not have a stereo line-level input. You'll need an audio-to-USB adapter. Some of us here use the Behringer UCA-202 or the UCA-222. -- Bill

... X 10.13.1 High Sierra Audacity 2.1.0 I started using a brand new small Cassette player as the source, joined to iMac by the players own cable terminating in USB plug. When that didn't work (with symptoms as above) I reverted to my old system of connecting ...

Are you saying that in System Preferences > Sound > Input you have "USB PnP Audio Device" as a choice? If you select that, then play a cassette, do you see the input meter moving in the System Preferences window?

-- Bill

Gale Andrews wrote:
The current Audacity 2.1.3 version can be downloaded from http://www.audacityteam.org/download/mac.

Thanks for the download link.