Audacity Forum

Look for the circle with two black arrows or in Apple Preferences for the ability to turn one connection around -- to switch between Line-In and Line-Out.

http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg

If you have neither of those, then you have a newer Mac with only a Headphone connection and you're stuck with a UCA-202 or equivalent.

Koz

Thanks Bill

I'm not a techie. So don't really understand all this. All I want to do is get sound files from my Sony Walkman on to my Mac, so I can edit it with Audacity. (My immediate motivation is to then post bird songs to the Xeno-Canto website, whose forum tipped me off about using Audacity to do this.)

As far as I know, I can't play anything from the Sony Walkman directly to my Mac as I think the only software that can read Sony minidisk files only works on a PC.

So I hope the UCA-202 will do this.

Thanks again.

Sam

If you can listen to your walkman with headphones, and your Mac has a line level input (as Koz explained), you can use Audacity to record what is playing on the walkman. This has nothing to do with direct transfer of sound files over USB.

You need the UCA-202 only if your Mac does not have a line level input.

-- Bill