Thanks, I'll give it a test. Perhaps things have changed, but when I first set this up, as soon as I plugged the Inport into the USB slot, Jaws quit. That was when I got advice from FS to put in the additional line into the ini file. I also have a port replicator which I disconnect as the Inport folks say you should plug right into the pc and not into any external ports because they might cause snaps, crackles and pops.
I'll give it a go. Cheers, Peter -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of dean martineau Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:45 PM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Recording from external sources I do this using an iMic. I don't worry about changing the JAWS default soundcard; I simply plug in the USB device and then JAWS comes through its headphone output, which is ok for the purpose. What happens if you just plug in the device to the USB port? Dean -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Alan Smith Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 8:12 AM To: pc-audio@pc-audio.org Subject: Recording from external sources Greetings fellow audio lovers. I am new to the list and I have a question for those of you who use Jaws and Goldwave. I have been successfully recording from external devices, mostly cassette players, into Goldwave via an external device called an "Inport" made by Xitel. Wires run from my tape deck into the small Inport device, which contains its own sound card, then into a USB port on my pc. To avoid having the sound cards clash, I would have to add a new line of text to the Jaws ini file that told Jaws that the synthesizer port was my pc sound card. I then had to check the "use default only" box in the sounds control panel. I would restart the pc, start up Goldwave, start recording on a new file, hit the play button on the external device, and get an mp3 file for my efforts! This was cumbersome, especially having to worry about clashing sound cards. But it worked for 2 years. Well, I recently upgraded from Jaws 7 to Jaws 9. Now every time I go through this procedure, I get a Jaws application error. It knocks Jaws out so that I can't get more details as well. The last thing I hear is "Jaws application error, a message is being sent.," then the sound is gone! Once in a while, I manage to save some recorded sound in Goldwave, but it contains that bonking noise that you hear when you have done something Windows doesn't like. Something is definitely up. I have tried work arounds such as turning off Jaws once I hit the play button on the external device, but to no avail. Things seem to go fine right up until I send sound in from the external device. I have tried every permutation I can think of; making sure the sound cards are either the one in the pc, or the Inport one in Goldwave and the control panel. I am getting to the point of giving up. I wonder if there is a better way of doing this. Surely there must be other folks using Jaws, Goldwave, and recording sounds from external devices. What do you all use? I have tried googling key words to see what others might use, but no luck so far. Rick Harmon, the Blind Geek Zone master, recommended that I contact the PC Audio group. You all sound very knowledgeable and I really hope that you can point me in the right direction. Perhaps there are ways that avoid using more than one sound card? Let me know what you think. Most Sincerely, Peter A. Smith Boston and now Charleston Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org Jonathan Mosen List Founder Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
