Help with new turntable to play my records on iMac

Audacity Help Forum macOS
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Greetings, this is all greek to me. i have tried sony but they gave me sound forge for mac and audacity as recommendations. all i want to know is how to play my records thru the iMac and put it on my iTunes. Will greatly appreciate any answers. cheers.

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Assuming it’s a USB turntable please read:

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/OSX_and_USB_input_devices

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/basic_recording_editing_and_exporting.html

http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/exporting_to_itunes_and_ipod.html .

Note that if you want to play records through the Mac without recording them, you must turn on a couple of controls in Audacity. First, turn on Transport > Software Playthrough. Second, turn on monitoring by clicking in the red recording meter. If you don’t hear any audio playing through, get LineIn from http://www.rogueamoeba.com/freebies/ .



Gale

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Thanks Gale for your response will give it a go.

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Tried it gale and tried the steps in the link as well with the steps and it still didn’t work for me. Cheers.

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Sorry but then you will have to start giving more details.

What is the make and model number of the turntable?

Did you get through http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/OSX_and_USB_input_devices ? Tell us how far you got so we know which step doesn’t work. Describe the symptoms of the problem for us in as much detail as you can.


Gale

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Hi Gale, I tried the play through and downloading the plug in. I tried doing this link for just listening to the record player. http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/User:BillWharrie/OSX_and_USB_input_devices . it is a sony PS LX300USB. i have osx 10.9 for my mac. on the audacity window i have built-in output, usb audio codec, 2(stereo). Transport play through has a check mark. i got no playing sound so it is no good just clicking willy nilly for me as i won’t know what i did to make it worse or better. i don’t know what it all means. cheers.

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This set of Tutorials in the Manual may help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_copying_tapes_lps_or_minidiscs_to_cd.html

These workflow ones should be usefule too:

  1. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_lp_digitization.html
  2. http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/sample_workflow_for_exporting_to_itunes.html

WC

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If those are the second, third and fourth boxes in Device Toolbar , that should be OK.

Click in the recording meter (the right-hand meter) to monitor. Click on the microphone icon, or in the recording meter bars:

To make sure you have done that, right-click over the recording meter. if it is monitoring it should say “Stop Monitoring”.

If you prefer to use LineIn, click its “Pass Thru” button.


Gale

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greetings Gale, i have core audio built-in Output USB AUDIO CODEC i have play through checked in the transport toolbar menu.

I have line in Input from Built-In Input: Line In
Output to Built-in Output: Internal Speakers

I really don’t know what else i can do. I think I will have to see if i can physically talk to someone. Cheers Gale.

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Try setting the the LineIn input to USB Audio CODEC.


Gale