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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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I was successful in converting from Cassette to my computer then I exported as .wav. I wanted to create a CD that would play in my car DVD player and was told that I need to convert to .dca but is your free Audacity download able to do this conversion? I want to transfer my music from my cassettes to a CD where that CD will pay in my vehicle player. Any thoughts or advice on this topic.
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I’m having problems recording a cassette. I have hooked up the cable to my cassette player headphone jack and to my laptop headphone jack, I then hit record but after testing it there is no sound. Could you please help with this….I’m using the Audacity software you suggest for Windows XP.
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