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Hey everyone,

I'm not sure if you guys can help me with a issue i'm having. I'm needing to covert some old homemade cassette tapes to CD. I know the quailty won't be great; but its of my sister singing who just passed suddenly. I've been able to covert one tape so far and get it to tape. But the two others are giving me a total headache...

My set up:

A 3.5 mm stereo cable
A New RCA tape/cd player
and of course audacity.

I started this whole endeavorer by hooking everything out and testing the radio. Everything worked great, and then used a old store bought tape... Which worked great. I then put in the first 2 tapes; and got only a buzzing in the recording. I noticed the 3rd was a different brand and gave it a shot. The first tape worked fine. I was about to record and burn that one. It actually sounds pretty good! What could be the problem? Both play fine with headphones; but not getting to the computer.

the brands of the two tapes NOT working are Sony HF

the brand of the tape that worked was a TDK.

Any ideas? I appreciate any help!

Matt

Unlikely to be the brand of tape.

For a start check all your connectios, leads and plugs - make sure there are clean and securely home.

Have a read of this set of tutorials in the manual: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Tuto ... iscs_to_CD

And do yourself a favour and upgrade to the latest Beta 1.3.13 which you can get from here: http://audacityteam.org/download/
Don't worry about the Beta labelling, it's now a very mature Beta and much netter on most modern machines than the now-ancient 1.2 series Audacity (which is no longer maintained or upgraded).

WC

I have the beta copy on my machine also, have used both. all the connections are secure. I can put a new tape in or record from radio and it works fine. Its totally confusing me! It doesn't make sense that one tape works fine on the set up when the others won't.

Matt

just a thought were all these tapes recorded on the same tapedeck originally?

Since they sound ok from the headphone socket have you tried recording fom that socket to the PC (assuming that you have a volume contol for the headphone level)?

WC