Need Help Using Audacity with Wikoo Tape To MP3 Converter

[vickicnotatechie]

@vickicnotatechie

There is an alternative, but it will involve spending more money. This involves taking the audio out of the headphone jack on the Wikoo, running that through a USB-Audio converter, and connecting that device to your Mac.
We know the Behringer UCA202, UCA22 and UFO202 all work with Mac. You will also need a stereo mini-jack-to-RCA cable (see the fi

Thanks Bill. The USB Audio converter doesn’t look too steep so maybe that’s a good solution. So if I hadn’t stupidly ditched my old tape deck I could have used that, it seems, and used the RCA cables that used to connect it to the receiver to connect it to the converter? I m slowly catching on.

[Trebor]

From what I’ve read the Wikoo driver-software is old: it works with old versions of Windows, but not the latest version.
In Windows the workaround is to run the old driver software via “Compatibility Wizard”, (a/k/a legacy-mode), on the new Windows.
I don’t speak Mac, so I don’t know if there is a Mac legacy-mode.

[billw58]

@vickicnotatechie

Thanks Bill. The USB Audio converter doesn’t look too steep so maybe that’s a good solution. So if I hadn’t stupidly ditched my old tape deck I could have used that, it seems, and used the RCA cables that used to connect it to the receiver to connect it to the converter? I m slowly catching on.

Yes, with a standard (old-style) cassette deck, the RCA cables you used to connect it to your stereo could be used to connect it to the USB-Audio converter.
– Bill

[waxcylinder]

@vickicnotatechie

So if I hadn’t stupidly ditched my old tape deck I could have used that, it seems, and used the RCA cables that used to connect it to the receiver to connect it to the converter?

You may be able to pick up a decent second-hand deck (on ebay for example) …

WC

[solgar1970]

@billw58

@solgar1970

I can’t change the proposed settings in the Audacity software, it won’t let me select any other option from the drop-down menus in Audacity.

Please go through the steps on this page in the Audacity wiki. Then tell us what happens when you go through these steps. If you get stuck at step 2 (the Mac System Preferences Sound panel doesn’t see the Wikoo) then we can’t help you. If the Mac won’t see the device, neither will Audacity.
– Bill

Problem resolved, thanks Bill!

[nnaeve]

I’d like to know if you ever found a solution to this. I’m having similar issues on a Mac Book Air with the Wikoo device.

I get: “Error while opening sounds device. Please check the recording device settings and the project sample rate.” My input device is correct, and I e into midi settings and did my best to match all the bits and soforth, but no luck.

Maybe related - the USB device blinks in and out of existence in that Midi menu.

I’ve been at it a couple hours. No luck yet. Re-loaded Audacity. Are there drivers needed? No mention of such in the manual.

[steve]

I’d like to know if you ever found a solution to this.

solgar1970 said that this fix worked for him/her:

Missing features

If it doesn’t work for you, then you must have a different problem, in which case you should start a new topic. (so as to allow people that have the “same” problem to find the solution.)