On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Paul wrote: > 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. A google search uncovered alsamixer. I installed it, then playing with it and Audacity recovered the audio and I'm using Audacity now, along with lame for wav > mp3 conversion. Thanks. Scott > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >