Record audio data from your
home TV, VCR, DVD, or stereo
by running a Y cable from your stereo to your
computer's sound card |
- Run the
Y-cable from your home equipment to your
computer
Plug
the Y-cable's single end, sometimes
called "3.5-mm end," into your
computer sound card's light-blue Line-In
input. Plug the Y-cable's red and white
double ends, sometimes called "RCA
ends," into the audio output of your
home equipment. Exactly where to plug the
double ends may need a little trial and
error: on my stereo receiver, for
example, only plugging the double ends
into the "Video 1" outputs,
under "Audio" worked.
- Set
Audacity input to Line-In.
Set Audacity's recording input to
"Line-In" (selecting
"line-In" from the drop-down
list by the microphone icon). Set stereo
receiver to play the sound source you
want computer to record (to play cassette
tapes for recording, for example, you'd
select "Tape Monitor").
- Record
away!
Play tape, click on Audacity's
"Record" button.
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