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Thomas H. George wrote:
>> soundcard. From you comment below I understand that the sound card is using
>> the input from all these sources simaltaneously and so the ones not
>> needed must be muted.

The more complex soundcards may have an internal switch meaning that
when one source is connected another becomes unavailable.  Aside from
that scenario I do not believe it is essential to have unused sources muted.

>> What did help was the comment about other software.  I found arecord
>> works flawlessly capturing the input from the tape deck and the

How frustrating that arecord will work and yet audacity won't.  Try
setting the audacity vu-meter to monitor, then play around with the
alsamixer settings.  This is how I identified the correct alsamixer
settings on my system.

>> turntable and writing it to .wav files on the hard disk.  Audacity can
>> load these files so I can edit them before writing them to cd's.  This
>> is what I wanted to accomplish so mission accomplished.

I presume you aren't trying to record live music-that is when audacity
proves its worth.  Two other excellent resources are
http://lalists.stanford.edu/lau/ and http://forum.audacityteam.org/

Good luck.

Tim
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