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I recorded a cassette tape, transferred it to computer thru both Audacity and Sound Recorder. I have burned TDK CD-R discs in MP3, WMA and WAV. They only play on my computer (Windows Vista, unfortunately, HP A6300T, Windows Media Player 10).

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I’ve just recorded some songs on a 4 track recorder. Can I just connect from the ‘line in’ on the 4 track to the mic jack on my laptop PC? Then convert to MP3, using Audacity, from there?

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[When recording from cassette to MP3 using Audacity] I have hooked up the cassette’s line out (L[white] and R [red]) to computer’s line-in.  I am not getting any sound when I click play to see if it is working.  What am I doing wrong?

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I viewed your site on converting tracks from tapes to CD.  The instructions on your site are correct right?  We are going to buy the cables we need and hope that we will be doing the right thing.  You say to prevent damage to try and use the line out jack and not the microphone.  on my laptop i have 2 sockets one for the microphone and the other for the headphones.  which one do i use?

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I tried two different cassette tapes and got the same results.  There is an echo on the recorder version.  When I listen to the tape via my tape player, or via my computer before I start recording with Audacity there is no echo.  It only starts the echo when I click the record button.  I have the connection to my computer in the in line, not the microphone line.  What am I doing wrong?

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