[olug] OT: seeking hardware

[Kelly Williams]

Done something like this before I had to use a external usb sound card. 
Some times onboard some sound cards give off background noise like my 
old Dell laptop.

Kelly Williams

On 10/15/2012 12:15 PM, DYNATRON tech wrote:
> do not use the mic input, it's for unbalanced devices (mics, turntables,
> etc).
>
> use the line input.
>
> try using a nice tape deck, not a crappy walkman.
>
> audacity works okay for doing this.
> On Oct 15, 2012 10:54 AM, "Matthew Platte" <51 at triopticon.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:19:30AM -0500, Kevin wrote:
>>> I was doing some cleaning and I found some audiocassettes that I'd
>>> like to convert to digital. Does anyone have the hardware(preferably
>>> including software) that I could borrow or use to convert 14 tapes to
>>> MP3 versions?
>> I'd get one of those male-male cables from RadioShack, a tape player
>> from the attic or Goodwill, and use Audacity on the PC to make the
>> recording.
>>
>> You'd plug the headphone output from the tape player into the microphone
>> jack on the PC.
>>
>> /works for me
>>
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