I'm new here and want to convert my casettes to CDs. I know how to get the music from casette player to computer but it sounds awful. Thinking it was my cheap speakers we bought some Sony speakers today but that did not help at all. Hubby tried a different sound card that did not work. The cable that he ran from Boom Box seems to have an extra thingy. He connected 1 thing to the back of computer so I am wondering if he did it backwards. Should there be 2 back there and no extra one here? I'm not able to crawl under there but I thought I would check it out while he is gone. After 50 years of marriage I don't want to say you did it backwards unless he did LOL

Sound is great coming out of Boombox alone but sounds horrendous out of computer. I first thought tapes went bad.

Thanks!

Check that the input lead to the computer isn't plugged into the microphone socket (usually pink) and is going to the Line In one instead.

We checked that today so you are saying there should only be 1 wire back there huh? The extra little thing on the wire going in to Boombox looks like the receptacle for the plug that goes in the box so I thought maybe we had it backwards as it is doing nothing but dangling.

Also see if anything in here helps you http://www.the-predator.com/dell/sec7-9.html

Thanks, I'm printing all that stuff out, hopefully we will figure this out tonight.

Don't do what I did the first time I tried recording from tape - I played the tape back and wondered why the sound was very low and muffled and then realised I was using a mono deck

Not sure what a mono deck is and I am just using a Boombox, not exactly top of the line but I'm not a purist I guess. Just want it to sound like it does just playing from the Boombox, that would make me very happy.

Mono is an old deck - not stereo - and I was feeding the output of that into the stereo line in connection - result was absolutely terrible muffled sound as it couldn't get both audio channels

I learnt the hard way