Hi all, Well, it’s turning out that I’m probably not going to need Audacity at all, because I made a huge discovery this morning. It turns out that VMWare has been seeing my line-in jack all the time, it’s just that the label in my sound settings was Microphone, and that was very misleading for me. I kind of do feel very sheepish, but when I went into the properties for my input device inside the VM, there was a checkbox that says “listen to this device”, and when I checked it and tried to play something from my cassette recorder, voila, sound! Luckily I was able to figure all this out before the end of my 30-day trial, so now I will bite the bullet and purchase.
Thanks for all your suggestions, folks, I do appreciate them! Pete De Vasto > On Sep 15, 2018, at 11:08 PM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: > > Can you get in to the device manager and have a look at the sound / audio > devices and see if any have ! or ? against them? > > Then try deleting them and restart the vm to see if you can get a windows > default audio device to install. > Also if you have a USB audio device such as speakers or usb headphone adapter, > Plug that in and ensure that the USB device is seen in the vm tools as being > seen by the actual vm. > Then start up jaws or narrator and see what happens. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On > Behalf Of Pete De Vasto > Sent: Saturday, 15 September 2018 2:57 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Audacity Tutorials > > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for your reply. To answer your questions: > > Yes, I do have an audio device installed on the VM machine. It’s HDAudio. The > problem is that when I go to Sound Settings in Windows, the only input device > I see is a Microphone, no line-in jack. So Narrator, even JAWS for that > matter, does come up just fine. When I’m in the Windows VM, it’s a bit tricky > if I want to toggle between Windows and Mac OS, but I’m getting the hang of > it and I’m sure it’ll get even easier the more I use it. > > Windows in the Bootcamp environment works fine, and there I even do see the > line-in jack. The interesting thing about the Bootcamp environment is that I > have three different output choices, one for speakers, one for headphones, > and one for digital audio. In the stand-alone VM, I only have speakers. > What’s also puzzling to me is that if I create a VM by importing my Bootcamp > partition, it says that everything is copied over, but that doesn’t seem to > be the case if I don’t have all the device choices. I would stay with running > in the Bootcamp environment, but it’s a pain to have to reboot out of > Bootcamp any time I want to go back to Mac OS. > > I hope this all makes sense. > > Pete > >> On Sep 14, 2018, at 12:00 AM, Simon Fogarty <si...@blinky-net.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Pete, >> >> I see you said the vm tools were installed from what you could see, >> >> Have you checked to see that you have an audio device installed also in the >> vm? >> >> I'll have to check my work machine to remember where this is but without an >> audio device you wont hear anything. >> >> Can you even get narrator working in the vm? >> And do you have any issues with the windows machine when running in the >> windows boot camp environment? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On >> Behalf Of Pete De Vasto >> Sent: Friday, 14 September 2018 8:16 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Audacity Tutorials >> >> Hi, >> >> I’m still struggling with trying to get windows under VMWare Fusion to see >> the line-in jack on my late 2014 Mac mini. One person in the group suggested >> I double-check that VMWare Tools was installed, and it is, but still no >> line-in jack. It looks like the only sound device that comes with windows >> under VMWare is HDAudio, and for some reason it’s not picking up the line-in >> jack. When I installed Windows under Bootcamp, I had a Cirrus Logic CS4208 >> (AB 108) driver, and the line-in jack showed up just fine. I’m trying to get >> hold of VMWare support, but to me it looks like I have to have a purchased >> copy of Fusion before they’ll talk to me. Everything else I need to do in >> Windows can be done with a VMWare machine on my Mac, so I really would much >> prefer not to have to reboot every time I want to do tape transfers. >> >> So if I can’t use VMWare Windows, I’m looking at Audacity 2.1.1. I >> understand this earlier version does work pretty well with VoiceOver. Has >> anyone used Audacity to transfer recordings from an external tape recorder >> of any kind? If not, have you used any other software on the Mac? Finally, >> if anyone has used Audacity, are there any tutorials out there besides the >> documentation that comes with it? >> >> Thanks so much for any help, >> Pete De Vasto >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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