02-08-19 20:21 Rob Swindell wrote to Ed Vance about Using Audacity with XP   
      
   Howdy! Rob (and Mike),   
      
   I looked at the Amazon link.   
      
   To use it with my device to me it seems like I need to change the Headphone   
   Jack Impedance to Line Input to use the product in Amazon's advertisement.   
      
   Off the top of Ed's Head Line Input is 500 (or 600) Ohms.   
      
   I have Two of the Radio Shack Transformers that have a 1000 Ohm Center-   
   Tapped winding on one side, and a 8 Ohm winding on the other side that I've   
   thought I might need to use even it I only used the Line Inputs on the pc to   
   get the Audio in to Audacity by using the Headphone Output while playing   
   a Cassette Tape.   
      
   My pc is an HP Pavilion a1430n, MS XP Media Center Edition 2005.   
      
   By that description I would think the Audio circuit portion would be O.K.   
   for what I am wanting to do with it.   
      
   When I've tried using Audacity to accept audio from the Headphone Jack to   
   the pc Line Input I never have seen Audacity putting the audio into a File   
   that I could later use to Burn it to a CD.   
      
   Very Much Head Scratching going on here.   
   (But I haven't started talking to the computer....yet).   
      
   Would My Two Transformers do the same job for me as the Amazon product?   
      
   TIA, 73 de Ed W9ODR   .           .   
      
      
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    RS>   Re: Using Audacity with XP   
    RS>   By: Ed Vance to All on Fri Feb 08 2019 09:47 pm   
      
    > Howdy!,   
    >   
    > I have seen mention of Audacity some time ago in this echo.   
    >   
    > I have been trying to read the Help pages for Audacity 2.0.5 to use it   
    > with the XP computer to connect the Headphone Output Jack of a Cassette   
    > Tape Recorder/Player into the XP computers Line Input and make a file   
    > that I could next use to burn the music to a CD-R disc.   
    >   
    > I haven't been able to figure it out.   
    >   
    > Anyone have suggestion(s) for me?   THANKS!   
      
    RS> The line input on most sound cards is *not* well suited for analog   
    RS> music digitization/preservation. Even if/when you get it working, the   
    RS> results probably won't be very good. I recommend using one of these   
    RS> instead (or something similar):   
    RS> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000KW2YEI   
      
    RS> I've use one of these to digitize many audio casettes using Audacity.   
    RS> Works great.   
      
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