Hello to all:
First, I am very appreciative of any support coming my way by those with more experience than I.
Now, I’d like those of you interested in this thread to please focus on the problem I will now explain.
I have (as previously stated above in this thread) been able to get sound into my computer from my portable player using wires (purchased separately itemized above in this thread). The male plug coming off the splitter wire that goes into the combo port on my laptop is correct. Why? Because it works to get the sound into my computer using this wonderful software called Audacity.
The problem I am focusing on solving, at this point, is why sometimes when I record a track in Audacity, as a sample less than a minute test, it picks up the sound coming down the wires connected to the combo port on my laptop. But other times, it doesn’t pick up that sound. It rather picks up the sound of my voice; that is if I say something after not seeing the Audacity track picking up the sound. Now, I’ve gone into setting in my computer, and I’ve made sure to turn off the internal mics for applications in my Windows 10 Home Ed operating system. This means that there are now only three ways for me to get audio sound into my laptop: 1) with and external microphone (I have a $10 or $20 independent external microphone). 2) Using a wire coming from my portable player’ headphone output to a wire spliter which allows audio sound to connect to that wire which connects to the combo port on my laptop, so my laptop can pick up that sound as if I was speaking into a microphone. 3) If I used a combination headset with a microphone attachment. That’s the only three ways my computer will get sound when I’ve turned “off” the laptops internal microphones.
With that in mind, please understand that sometimes I have been successful at getting Audacity to pick up the audio sound from my portable player which travels down the wire connected to the headphone jack on the portable player to the splitter wire to the combo port on my laptop. When this works I am thrilled because I’m more than halfway home for what I ultimate am trying to do. However, even with that setup (just explained), my computer will not pick up the sound from the portable player as evidenced by the Audacity track not being created. What it does do is pick up the sound of my voice. But I am not speaking into a microphone. And the microphone settings have been turned “off” in my computer. Duh! I am baffled by this! I have no idea what is causing this to happen.
So, I tried calling Hp tech support, who eventually connected me to their Smart Friend (pay for) service, which I did not buy into. However, I did get a brief amount of insight into what to ask when I research the answer to this problem on my own. I was thankful for being told some things to ask about when doing my own research. I was told to Google: How to turn cassettes into CD’s? I’ve done this already both on Google and YouTube, and it is how I found out about this Five Star program called Audacity. I was told to ask: How to prioritize where my computer gets its audio input from? I’ve tried doing asking that online, but haven’t found anything helpful to this point in time. And I’ve also asked this on YouTube.
What I have gotten to understand is how to get to my Sound window controls. Now, under the recording tab of the Sound window, there shows only one option and it is: Microphone Array, Conexant ISST Audio, default device. Now, to the best of my knowledge, there is no way to add another option in the Sound window recording tab. So, figuring out how to prioritize where my computer picks up or receives its audio input is impossible.
All I am trying to do is get the audio off of a cassette of 60 or 90 minutes into Audacity, so I can create a digital file and transfer it to a CD-R. That’s all I want to be able to accomplish.
There must be some kind of a way that I can tell my laptop computer, which again is using Windows 10 Home Ed, to only pick up audio being input through the combo port via the wires that I’m using (described above and previously). There’s got to be a way to stop my laptop from ignoring the audio signal coming into the combo port from the wires connected to my portable player and picking up my voice, when I’m not even speaking into a microphone and I’ve shut “off” the microphone in settings for all applications. There’s got to be a way to do this. And, by the way, I’ve made sure that the 3.5 male plug connected to the splitter wire is seated properly in the combo port on my laptop computer.
Also, there is no way on my laptop computer that I can get audio sound into my computer using a USB port. I’ve inquired at Hp about this possibility. And they told me that the only purpose of the USB ports on my computer were to supply power to external devices. That these USB ports are not set up to receive audio coming into my laptop computer. They told me the only way to get audio input into my computer is via the combo port (described clearly above).
Also, regarding the Windows Media Player suggested above, there is no Windows Media Player for Windows 10 Home Ed. Windows Media Player is exclusively for Window XP systems. So, although I used to like the Windows Media Player on my now donated old computer, it is no longer available for Windows 10 Home Ed. So, thanks for suggesting that, but it is not what I am trying to do anyway. I am not trying to rip music off a cd.
Also, attempting to setting priority for Audacity to Above Normal was also not possible on my Windows 10 Home Ed.
I am going to review the Frequently Asked Questions again, but when I did so in the past I did not find any answers to what I’ve discussed in this post.
