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Geoff Geoff is offline
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Default Simple audio acquisition

Maelmoro wrote:
line-in input (rear blue).


What is it? A dedicate input line? Isn't it the same than mic?


A Line Input is for connecting to a Line Output of (say) a cassette
recorder. a Mic input is for revording the much smaller signal fron, guess
what, a MICROPHONE ! A line output into a mic input will likely cause a huge
overload and distortion.


After recording a whole side of the tape with
audacity, you can split the tracks with nero and then burn them on
your cd.


What format should I record my acquired audio in Audacity: WAVE?
MP3?.. what else?


If you want quality and to CD then WAV cos MP3 loses musical information (
admittedly decreasingly at higher bitrates). However with cassette the
quality is likely very low anyway, so just use what format your CD burning
software prefers.

My target is to have the max quality to store on a CD.


Well it is unlikely to be better quality that the cassette was, unless you
do restoration. But if you needed to ask these questions, then that is way
beyond your level of expertise....

geoff