On Wed July 19 2006 11:06, Rod Roark wrote: > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 10:55, Richard Harke wrote: > > I have some tapes I want to digitise. I did this once before and > > it was easy but I have forgotten just what I did and now I can't > > seem to get it to work. I have a cassette player connected > > to the line in on my sound card and when I play the tape I get > > the appropriate sound from my PC's speakers. I have alsamixer > > open and did have to bring up the line in volume. I have tried > > Krec and arecord. The Vu meter in Krec does not show anything. > > Both programs produce files with all zero samples. I don't think > > it is a permissions problem, doesn't work for root either. (my user > > is a member of audio group) > > I did this recently. Used Audacity. Run alsamixer and make sure the > line-in is selected as the "capture" input -- hit the tab key once or > twice in alsamixer to see the capture stuff. > Thanks. Getting to the capture display in alsamixer was the key. My line in didn't show up for capture but I was able to use analog mixer. I'll give audacity a try. I'll have quite a bit of this stuff to do, after the cassetes, I have a lot of old LP's
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