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Rod
I have several old cassette tapes that I would like to capture onto my hard
drive and then burn on CD's. Since all I have as playing devices is simple
handheld cassette players with head phone jakes, I went to Best Buy and
purchase a cable there that will let me plug one end into my cassette player
and then other end into the line-in of my PC's sound card (I'm using Windows
Vista). Then I downloaded and installed Audacity from off of the Internet
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). I had, very naively thought that all I
had to do was play the cassette and press the record button in Audacity.
Man, was I WRONG!!!! I hear absolutely NOTHING AT ALL while "recording".
And when I go to play it back in Audacity, there is nothing at all. So then
I thought I could get into the help in Audacity and find out how to get
started. You know, something incredible advanced like, "Getting Started".
But, NO, not that. It is clear to me that the help that comes along with
Audacity is nothing more than reference. You must KNOW what it is you're
doing and all you're interested, when you look up something in Audacity's
help is a reminder as to how to get to some complicated command.
I need a "Getting Started with Audacity" for crying out loud!!! I've just
spend an hour and a half trying to figure this thing out and have gotten
nowhere at all! Why is Audacity so hard???
So, next I went to Audacity's website trying to find that elusive "Getting
Started with Audacity", but NO! So, I tried in vain to find more help and
it talked about something called a sound mixer. What's that? Where do I
find that? Do I have to buy it, or is that already in my PC?
I need that "Getting Started with Audacity" to learn how to record something
from a source like the line-in, which takes SMALL steps, such a start with
step A and defines ALL of the terms before moving onto step B. At step B it
defines ALL of the terms before moving onto step C where everything is
described and defined, before moving onto step D, etc. I don't need things
like I'm finding online associated with Audacity which starts with step J,
and then leaps to step V followed by step CC, etc. I have no experience
with sound recording, mixers, etc.
Does anyone know where I can find what I need so that I can actually use
Audacity???
Rod
drive and then burn on CD's. Since all I have as playing devices is simple
handheld cassette players with head phone jakes, I went to Best Buy and
purchase a cable there that will let me plug one end into my cassette player
and then other end into the line-in of my PC's sound card (I'm using Windows
Vista). Then I downloaded and installed Audacity from off of the Internet
(http://audacity.sourceforge.net/). I had, very naively thought that all I
had to do was play the cassette and press the record button in Audacity.
Man, was I WRONG!!!! I hear absolutely NOTHING AT ALL while "recording".
And when I go to play it back in Audacity, there is nothing at all. So then
I thought I could get into the help in Audacity and find out how to get
started. You know, something incredible advanced like, "Getting Started".
But, NO, not that. It is clear to me that the help that comes along with
Audacity is nothing more than reference. You must KNOW what it is you're
doing and all you're interested, when you look up something in Audacity's
help is a reminder as to how to get to some complicated command.
I need a "Getting Started with Audacity" for crying out loud!!! I've just
spend an hour and a half trying to figure this thing out and have gotten
nowhere at all! Why is Audacity so hard???
So, next I went to Audacity's website trying to find that elusive "Getting
Started with Audacity", but NO! So, I tried in vain to find more help and
it talked about something called a sound mixer. What's that? Where do I
find that? Do I have to buy it, or is that already in my PC?
I need that "Getting Started with Audacity" to learn how to record something
from a source like the line-in, which takes SMALL steps, such a start with
step A and defines ALL of the terms before moving onto step B. At step B it
defines ALL of the terms before moving onto step C where everything is
described and defined, before moving onto step D, etc. I don't need things
like I'm finding online associated with Audacity which starts with step J,
and then leaps to step V followed by step CC, etc. I have no experience
with sound recording, mixers, etc.
Does anyone know where I can find what I need so that I can actually use
Audacity???
Rod