You are correct, Jaimie, in regard to the good old Windows-based PC system - but the thread was begun in reference to recording audio to a Mac. Toast is a Mac platform program, and Macs have a 1/8" stereo input which quite acceptably will receive audio from most sources - unlike PCs which usually must be configured for audio purposes. (Longtime Mac user here...) Just trying to clarify. Brioohs on 3/5/05 8:00 PM, audities-owner@smoe.org at audities-owner@smoe.org wrote: > Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:57:24 -0500 > From: "Jaimie Vernon" > To: audities@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Vinyl on Toast > Message-ID: > > At Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:14:02 Ken wrote: > >> Bill, >> >> Inside the Toast package is an application called CD Spin Doctor. Follow >> instructions I posted. Wash, rinse, repeat! >> >> --Ken >> >> Bill wrote: >>> Wow...so you basically run an audio patch out from the receiver and into >> the >>> computer. I've got an iMac that my wife has downloaded Toast onto. This >>> process should also work for cassettes, right? > > Important point here that's been overlooked. You can't just plug your analog > player (cassette deck, turntable, Edison cylinder machine) into your > computer software and hit "record". You MUST have an analog-to-digital > converter that is compatible with one's soundcard. You can drive analog > signals into your computer until you're blue in the face, but you'll get no > audio without something to convert that signal into 1's and 0's. > > As you were. > > > Jaimie Vernon,