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tephraSo I figured I'd trying this encoding from the line input thing with my MP3 player to make some MP3s from cassettes. After all, I am a child of the 80s and I have about 250 cassettes around and I didn't replace all of them with CDs (some aren't available in CD form at all).
So I dig out a tape (KLF if anyone remembers them) and pop it into the A deck of my stereo and let it play while I go looking for the line out on the stereo... not in the front, but that's not surprising. Get the flashlight and turn the stereo around... not in the back. The hell? Stereos have line outs, that's Just The Way Things Are. Check again, still not there. Check the front again. Still not there either. Remove the docked speakers, not hidden there (even if it would be odd to have it there I had to check.) My stereo has no line out. *blinkblink*
Okay, so maybe this stereo is too new or something. It's got a three CD changer in it so the fact it has dual cassette decks is a bit odd really. So I go into the office/hobby room/vacuum cleaner lair and check the boom box I have in there. That's at least ten years old or so and I know it had auxiliary inputs so it must have a line out... not in the front. Didn't expect it in the front though so I undo some cabling from when I used to use my portable CD player to play CDs with it and turn it around... aux in left, aux in right, mic... no line out. WTF?
I own the only four cassette decks in the house, in two units, and neither of them have line outs! Do they even sell things that play cassettes and have line outs without charging an arm and a leg (because it's obsolete tech or something) these days?
So I dig out a tape (KLF if anyone remembers them) and pop it into the A deck of my stereo and let it play while I go looking for the line out on the stereo... not in the front, but that's not surprising. Get the flashlight and turn the stereo around... not in the back. The hell? Stereos have line outs, that's Just The Way Things Are. Check again, still not there. Check the front again. Still not there either. Remove the docked speakers, not hidden there (even if it would be odd to have it there I had to check.) My stereo has no line out. *blinkblink*
Okay, so maybe this stereo is too new or something. It's got a three CD changer in it so the fact it has dual cassette decks is a bit odd really. So I go into the office/hobby room/vacuum cleaner lair and check the boom box I have in there. That's at least ten years old or so and I know it had auxiliary inputs so it must have a line out... not in the front. Didn't expect it in the front though so I undo some cabling from when I used to use my portable CD player to play CDs with it and turn it around... aux in left, aux in right, mic... no line out. WTF?
I own the only four cassette decks in the house, in two units, and neither of them have line outs! Do they even sell things that play cassettes and have line outs without charging an arm and a leg (because it's obsolete tech or something) these days?
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Date: 2006-03-21 01:11 am (UTC)although now that i think of it, the line out is separated into 2 channels, so it required a special cable adapter thingy.
good luck finding a setup that will work. and if you get desperate enough to make a pilgrimage to pittsburgh, give me a little advance warning. ;)
Hi Tephie, Kris said to ask you...
Date: 2006-03-27 03:27 pm (UTC)CJ
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Date: 2006-03-27 07:29 pm (UTC)I'm going to look around and see if anyone has a cheap portable cassette deck (a generic "walkman") that has a line out. I'm still astounded that neither my stereo or my boombox has a line out....
Re: Hi Tephie, Kris said to ask you...
Date: 2006-03-27 07:29 pm (UTC)