listening to music form turntable

[shinnen]

Hi,
I am using Audacity to rip the music from some vinyls;
but the only time I can hear the music, is when Audacity is
copying it. I can hear other music which is on my hard drive,
but not from my turntable.
Does anyone know how I can get windows to play these
vinyls at anytime, not just when Audacity is open.
Thanks,
.... john

[Gale Andrews]

I am using Audacity to rip the music from some vinyls;
but the only time I can hear the music, is when Audacity is
copying it. I can hear other music which is on my hard drive,
but not from my turntable.
Does anyone know how I can get windows to play these
vinyls at anytime, not just when Audacity is open.

You may have to have Audacity open unless you have some other way to play the turntable through the computer speakers. What type of turntable is it (USB or a conventional turntable, attached through a phono amplifier)? What version of Windows are you on?

In Audacity, you just have to click Transport > check "Software Playthrough", then click in the right-hand recording meter to turn on monitoring. Then you can hear the input selected in Audacity Preferences without recording from it.

For other solutions, see the relevant Wiki page for USB turntables. If this a conventional turntable connecting through an amplifier to computer line-in, you can try unmuting the line-in on the playback side of the system mixer (this is known as "hardware plauythrough").

If you are on WIndows 7, it allows software playthrough of most devices without having to use an application like Audacity to provide playthrough. Vista probably allows this too, but earlier versions of Windows don't as far as I recall. The Windows 7 software playthrough even works with many USB turntables. To turn it on in Windows 7:

• Go to "Sound" in the Windows Control Panel
• Click the "Recording" tab
• Right-click over the device you want to listen to (for example, "Microphone - USB Audio Codec" if it's a USB turntable)
• Click "Properties"
• Click the "Listen" tab, and check "Listen to this device"
• In the "Playback through this device" dropdown, choose your inbuilt sound device and click OK. Do not choose any USB turntable or USB microphone as the playback device.

Gale

[shinnen]

Hi Gale,
Thanks for the help. I think I have it figured out now.
..... john