Line in/Microphone for analogue signals

[Tudor]

Hi there,

Still using my reliable T1XP - coming up for three years old and is still as fresh and clean as the day I pulled it out of its box!

I am keen on getting some old LPs converted to MP3. I have a programme called Total Recorder (from High Criteria) which I have used successfully on a Dell desktop, and a work-provided Acer laptop (which has now died a sudden death even though it was only four months old - awful budget model that my work deemed good value ho ho ho).

But there is no line-in socket - only one for headphones and one for mic - and so I am unable to figure out how to get sound in and onto the soundcard. Is there a way around this, or do I have to purchase and use an external soundcard solution?

Many thanks for any suggestions/advice.

Regards,

Mike

[Blencogo]

Hi Mike and welcome to the Club (at last!!)

Your T1XP internal soundcard (Analog Devices AD1981B 16-bit CD-quality stereo sound AC 97 2.3) should be capable of receiving line-in stereo through the microphone jack. A nice new external soundcard would be nice but not really necessary!!!

Nice but expensive!!!

Have a look in Control Panel to see what options you have under Sound and Audio Devices -> Audio.

AUDACITY is an excellent free software package.

[littlebucko]

hi tudor i have a fs315m and i convert records / lp's to mp3 by plugging a record deck into the mic and no other things used then that goes through sonic stage mastering studio
ok my laptop does digital / analog as its HD
but it works fine as sonic stage auto clears them
so it is then in cd quality then you can same it as cd format (or onto cd)
or into normal sound format