Trying to play a music cassette on my Reshow Converter, on a Mac Mini with a Studio monitor, running Audacity 3.4 on OS Ventura. I’d like to save the tape as a MP3 file. I can hear the tape playing on the Converter, but when I press Record in Audacity, nothing happens. I get an Error Code 9986 – Internal PortAudio error.
Please supply details for
- Reshow Converter (link to a description, model, manual, etc.)
- version of macOS used
- connections you have tried out between the “Reshow Converter” and the Mac
- settings in Audacity you tried out for sound input (Audio setup → Recoding device → …)
If the “Reshow Converter” has USB output, you should be able to connect directly to your Mac using a suitable USB-cable. If not, you need an “external sound card” like the Behringer UCA-202 or similar.
Depending on the macOS version used, you need to grant access to “Microphone” in the system settings → privacy & security → Microphone.
If this is one of those $40 mini cassette players that shows us as “PnP USB Device” you’re probably out of luck. I have not heard of anyone who has gotten one of those to work on a Mac.
There are a lot of cassette players on Amazon that will record audio onto a SD card that could be imported into Audacity. Most of them say they save in MP3 format, but I imagine there are some who can save in a lossless format as well.
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