On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 09:17 -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: > On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > On 10/27/07, Scott Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu> wrote: > >> I have my tape deck connected to my PC's line-in port, but Audacity's > >> unstable release is unable to pick up the audio, though when I select the > >> proper device and play with the volume control in the app, the audio does > >> change. > >> > >> What other mp3 capture programs do people use? My goal is to simply > >> capture each side of a tape to mp3, then use Audacity to break each song > >> to its own mp3 file. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> Scott > > > > audacity should be able to do it and is available from rpmforge. > > My original message (above) says Audacity is not visually showing the > audio line levels or wave form when recording, thus I am not convinced it > is capturing anything. Which probably is an issue with your sound configuration somehow ... I've had issues getting audio in to work with a couple different cards because it's sometimes difficult to get the right input selected. My Sound Blaster Live 5.1 has literally a dozen different input sources to select from, finding the correct combination was a bit of trial & error. Paul