Need To Record From Line-in [solved]

yordan

Feb 23 2009, 01:09 PM

While my mother was singing, my sister recorded this on a standard audio cassette (the small thing with two reels and a tape sliding in front of a magnetic head).
Now she wants me to share this with my cousins, which means putting it on my PC and further put it on my website.
How can I do this ?
I guess I need a piece of cable between the audio device and my PC, linking the audio device "speaker out" to my pc's "line-in".
Once I do that, how can I tell Crosoft Windows "please put the music from the line-in jack and put it in a mp3 file" ? Is there something embedded inside Windows ? Or is there a (preferably free) software in charge of doing this ?

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Quatrux

Feb 23 2009, 05:07 PM

I wanted to do something like that a lot of years ago, couldn't figure it out, as I didn't need the quality to be very good, I made quite a funny thing:

I played the cassette on my sound system and recorded the sound to my computer through microphone with de-noise, which is quite funny.. though it worked quite nice. I was very young at that time.

I think theoretically, all you need is Audacity application, which is open source and a cable from the cassette sound system line out to computer line in. As I know Audacity can act as a sound recorder, or you could use any other sound recorder you know.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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pyost

Feb 23 2009, 07:17 PM

QUOTE

(the small thing with two reels and a tape sliding in front of a magnetic head)

Priceless

QUOTE (Quatrux @ Feb 23 2009, 06:07 PM)

I played the cassette on my sound system and recorded the sound to my computer through microphone with de-noise, which is quite funny.. though it worked quite nice. I was very young at that time.

The best solution, if you ask me, is this. All cassette players have a headphones jack, and all computers have a microphone jack (those that don't have a sound card really, really need to upgrade). Just buy one 3.5mm - 3.5mm jack which will connect these two, and you record just as if there was a microphone plugged into your machine.

For this, I think you can even use Sound Recorder that comes with Windows. It creates a *.wav file, but there is a plethora of *.wav to *.mp3 converters online...

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yordan

Feb 23 2009, 07:40 PM

Thanks. Both of you were right. A 3.5 mm jack cable for the interconnect, and Audacity as software did the job.

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(G)Oobles

Oct 29 2009, 11:29 AM

How do I get my computer to record through the mic and the line in input at the same time?
Need To Record From Line-in [solved]

Basically I have a vista computer with "realtek audio" (?) and want to record with both a microphone and from another computer (line in) it only lets me record through either the mic or the line in cable separately. I want to do them both at the same time. Any solutions?

-question by Oobles

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