Audacity Forum

Hello ,

I have bought a Creative Zen Vision M 30 GB mp3 player and now I want to transfer all my music from old cassette tapes.
For this I have downloaded audacity 1.2.6 to my laptop, where I work with windows XP. I have now copied my first tape onto the computer where it has safely arrived.
Now I need to transfer this .wav file from audacity into the music manager of the software of the mp3 player. But whatever I do, it turns up nowhere, or the file will contain no data, as happened when I transferred it directly to the mp3 player. As audacity does not change .wav files into mp3 files I was not very surprised by that.
Anyway, to sort the different music into the different folders of the menu on the player, I need to first transfer the files into the manager of the mp3 player anyway, which is as separate software on my computer...
But HOW? I have tried everything I could think of, but no success....

Please, help....

You may be getting confused by the "Save" option in Audacity (lots of people do).

IN Audacity, when you "Save", it will save a project file, and also create a folder with all the data for that project. This is not normal audio.

To get normal audio files that you can use elsewhere (either wav, mp3, or other supported format) you must "Export".

Audacity does not directly support mp3 due to licencing restriction, so you need to have the LAME encoder installed (details here: http://audacityteam.org/help/faq?s=inst ... m=lame-mp3 )

If you have a whole stack of wav files to encode, and do not need to edit them, you may find it easier to use a specialist "batch encoder" rather than Audacity (such as Lamedrop http://www.rarewares.org/mp3.php )

<<<from old cassette tapes...I have downloaded audacity 1.2.6 to my laptop.>>>

Doesn't it sound a little hot and crunchy or "rough" or "fuzzy" compared to the original performance? Most laptops only have a Mic-In connection for analog audio and most tape machines only have Line-Out. They look like you should be able to plug them into each other, but it's usually not successful. The sound level at Line-Out can be as much as 1000 times higher than Mic-In is expecting.

It's not unusual for the Mic-In to only give you one of the two audio channels, too. Are you sure you didn't just record "Left" and not Left and Right?

Some laptops do provide a Line-In connection and that's the one to use to solve all these problems.

If it sound OK to you, then you win. But I just wanted to give you something else to worry about.

Koz