Installation

[colinmcintyre]

All I want to do is to ask why the application interface screen does to appear properly when the Cassettemate given to me by my daughter is installed, using rge DRIVER disc provided. What am I doing wrong please.

Colin McIntyre

[steve]

I don't quite understand your question. However, many "driver disks" contain old/obsolete versions of Audacity. You are recommended to use the latest 1.3.11 version available here: http://audacityteam.org/download/

[alphatango]

I suspect that Colin has missed out the word "not". I find that the control panel installed for my CassetteMate has been "chopped" on the right-hand side, thereby omitting the "tools" button and the "off" button (the window is properly formed, with curved corners and all, but the view through it is restricted. The "obscured" buttons don't work, either). This is rather annoying-I can only close the programme by uninstalling it! I've tried repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling, using a different drive, all to no avail. I also tried downloading the software from the site but that was the same-only in Chinese (or Japanese-I'm no expert!). I've tried downloading from your link to Audacity downloads, but, whilst I'd like to use it, that program doesn't appear to interface with the CassetteMate hardware-or does it?

[steve]

I find that the control panel installed for my CassetteMate has been "chopped" on the right-hand side, thereby omitting the "tools" button and the "off" button (the window is properly formed, with curved corners and all, but the view through it is restricted.

This sounds like it's a problem with the driver software rather than a problem with Audacity.
My guess (only a guess as I can't actually "see" what you mean) is that the interface has been designed to be used with a higher screen resolution than you are using on your display, or with a smaller default font size. If you are using Windows, try increasing the screen resolution (number of pixels on the display).

[alphatango]

I have a screenshot of it on my desktop. I'll attach it here.
My resolution is set to 1280 x 1024. It doesn't go any higher.
I'm running Vist Home Premium.
BTW, I just received an email containing this link:

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http://whiteformnfq0.webs.com?Twez

It's from a jbrramsey and includes a number of copy addressees. Coming immediately after registering on this forum, I suspect it might be due to a security breach.

[alphatango]

OK, you're not interested. Know what? Nor am I.

[steve]

OK, you're not interested. Know what? Nor am I.

It sounds like you are getting angry with the wrong people.
Audacity is a free open-source program and is "community supported" (support comes from the community of Audacity users).

CassetteMate is not Audacity and so there's not much that we can do to help you.
This appears to be the contact information for CassetteMate: http://www.aspect-two.com/contact

[alphatango]

I apologise unreservedly. I'm sure you don't deserve my comment and I withdraw it completely. As a matter of fact, your website was given in the literature with the Cassettemate and I foolishly supposed that you had some association with the software designer responsible for the material provided with the machine, but clearly you do not.
Having abandoned my attempts to get the Cassettemate software to work properly I finally had a serious bash at running yours and I very glad I did.
It did take a long time to discover why one (the older) edition was receiving data from the usb port whilst the newer (Beta) edition wouldn't. I found the appropriate toolbar eventually, but it wasn't obvious that there was such a thing, as its default is "off". I think this is a shame as I nearly gave up (you know I do that easily!) but I did persevere. I still have some way to go with this as I've been using a Magix sound studio and I need to "retrain" but yours is much easier to use-once you find out how it works.
One point-the input port selector panel appeared outside the control panel and can be positioned anywhere on the desktop. Is this how it's meant to work? The manual shows it embedded in the panel.
I've completed one project so far, including tape-transport noise reduction, which I think has come out rather well, although it did take about 5 hours to process a 90 minute, 23 track, tape. I had to repeat several processes but I should get quicker at it. I'm neither a software- nor a sound-engineer.
This software is very useful indeed-thank you for making it available.

[steve]

No worries alphatango - I saw the CassetteMate literature and see that it could easily be misinterpreted. We occasionally get a similar "irate customers" that use other commercial products that have bundled Audacity (often out of date versions of Audacity and with incorrect instructions).

One point-the input port selector panel appeared outside the control panel and can be positioned anywhere on the desktop. Is this how it's meant to work? The manual shows it embedded in the panel.

The Toolbars can be customised to some extent - each toolbar can be "docked" or pulled out of the docked position and either left floating or docked in a different position. There are limitations on where you can dock them, but the flexibility is still useful. See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... s_Overview

One particularly useful aspect of this is when recording - you can drag the "meter toolbar" (recording/playback meters) to make them much longer. Doing this makes it much easier to accurately view the recording level. When recording I have the meters stretched to the full width of the window.

[waxcylinder]

... I've completed one project so far, including tape-transport noise reduction, which I think has come out rather well, although it did take about 5 hours to process a 90 minute, 23 track, tape. I had to repeat several processes but I should get quicker at it. I'm neither a software- nor a sound-engineer.

You might like to have a look at this workflow tutorial in the Audacity manual - it is niminally about LP transcription but a lot of the processing advice applies to tape transcription too: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... gitization

And this is the full set of those transcription tutorials: http://manual.audacityteam.org/index.ph ... iscs_to_CD

WC