02-08-19 20:21 Rob Swindell wrote to Ed Vance about Using Audacity with XP

Howdy! Rob (and Mike),

I looked at the Amazon link.

To use it with my device to me it seems like I need to change the Headphone
Jack Impedance to Line Input to use the product in Amazon's advertisement.

Off the top of Ed's Head Line Input is 500 (or 600) Ohms.

I have Two of the Radio Shack Transformers that have a 1000 Ohm Center-
Tapped winding on one side, and a 8 Ohm winding on the other side that I've
thought I might need to use even it I only used the Line Inputs on the pc to
get the Audio in to Audacity by using the Headphone Output while playing
a Cassette Tape.

My pc is an HP Pavilion a1430n, MS XP Media Center Edition 2005.

By that description I would think the Audio circuit portion would be O.K.
for what I am wanting to do with it.

When I've tried using Audacity to accept audio from the Headphone Jack to
the pc Line Input I never have seen Audacity putting the audio into a File
that I could later use to Burn it to a CD.

Very Much Head Scratching going on here.
(But I haven't started talking to the computer....yet).

Would My Two Transformers do the same job for me as the Amazon product?

TIA, 73 de Ed W9ODR   .           .


 RS> @MSGID: <5C5E7BF0.15611.windowsa@capitolcityonline.net>
 RS>   Re: Using Audacity with XP
 RS>   By: Ed Vance to All on Fri Feb 08 2019 09:47 pm

 > Howdy!,
 >
 > I have seen mention of Audacity some time ago in this echo.
 >
 > I have been trying to read the Help pages for Audacity 2.0.5 to use it
 > with the XP computer to connect the Headphone Output Jack of a Cassette
 > Tape Recorder/Player into the XP computers Line Input and make a file
 > that I could next use to burn the music to a CD-R disc.
 >
 > I haven't been able to figure it out.
 >
 > Anyone have suggestion(s) for me?   THANKS!

 RS> The line input on most sound cards is *not* well suited for analog
 RS> music digitization/preservation. Even if/when you get it working, the
 RS> results probably won't be very good. I recommend using one of these
 RS> instead (or something similar):
 RS> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KW2YEI

 RS> I've use one of these to digitize many audio casettes using Audacity.
 RS> Works great.

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