Ripping cassettes

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » August 11, 2003, 1:43 pm

Might not be the proper term, but you get my meaning. Has anyone done it succesfully? I've got the line out on my cassette deck going to the line in on my sound card and don't get anything. Either the cassette deck has gone bad or I'm doing something stupid, it does play correctly when attached to an amplifier + speakers.

I've got a bunch of old music that's slowly going to crap, much of it no longer available. I'd like to get it all on CD before they decay entirely.

Post by **pyrella** » August 11, 2003, 2:33 pm

Going through the obvious first - is your line in muted/all the way down when you double click the sound icon in the system tray??

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » August 11, 2003, 3:18 pm

Although it's not the proper way it might work to go out the headphone jack if the player is old. By doing so you can control the input level into the system.

Marb

Truant · Post by **Truant** » August 12, 2003, 4:12 pm

Did you get it working? I would also suggest using the headphone jack, just because you can keep the volume at a sub-snapcrackle&pop level. It's a completely analog transfer anyways, so I wouldn't worry about one jack being better than the other.

(I actually ripped some vinyl to MD one summer feeling rather ambitious, that was a fucking pain)

Aabidano · Post by **Aabidano** » August 15, 2003, 4:42 pm

Can't find the patch cable and don't want to buy\make another. Going to dig around some more after work, I think it got "put away" when the wife was cleaning, no telling where it will surface

*Edit - Looks like this is going to be a pain, especially the file marks between tracks so it come out clean. CDex should be able to label the tracks automatically once I get them to files.

Going from "line out" on the deck > "line in 2" on my laptop is working. No idea why it won't work on my home PC.

Line in 2 was muted by default for some reason.

Recorded War Child while I was finishing off some work this afternoon