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recording old audio cassettes (SOLVED)
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 3:49 am
by pdrose
Newtime user. Don't know if question got posted. Trying to record old cassettes using headphone jack to line-in. Only hearing out of one speaker. Can it get it to play out of both?
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 6:30 am
by kozikowski
Audacity > Preferences > Devices > Recording > Channels > 2-Channel (Stereo).
Make sure your audio cable plug is all the way in.
Do you have two sockets like this?
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/MacLineIn.jpg
Koz
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:15 am
by pdrose
yes
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 12:55 pm
by pdrose
That didn't work. Still only hearing from one speaker.
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:30 pm
by billw58
Check your cable. Is it a 1/8" or 1/4" headphone jack? Do the plugs on both ends of the cable have three connections?
See:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/How_ ... _equipment
Note the first picture.
-- Bill
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 8:52 pm
by pdrose
They are mini jacks with two ridges. I believe they're 1/8 (the same plug that goes into the "line-in" on the iMac.
Re: recording old audio cassettes
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:35 pm
by pdrose
Got it! I pushed both jacks in hard and it must not have been making a good connection, because now it works. Thanks!
Re: recording old audio cassettes (SOLVED)
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 5:20 pm
by steve
Marked as solved.
