no volume in playback

[deniz666uk]

i have uploaded some tunes with audacity but when i played them back there was no sound can someone please help

[greenmachine]

Set the output volume of the MD to max. Open the Recording Control mixer on your PC, select "Line In" and set an appropriate level.

To access the Recording Control in Win XP, click Start - Control Panel - Sounds and Audio Devices - Options - Properties - Recording - OK.

[deniz666uk]

thanx but still nothing

[sfbp]

Have you checked to see if the Sound Card input is set to actually a. receive and b. record from the line input?

Don't try recording anything, just first see (a.) if you can play back from MD into your PC speakers

If this works, check the record devices on your sound card. It may be that one of them is muted. In my case, if you set it to Digital input (I have a Toslink-In card) then normal line in doesn't work for recording purposes.

[deniz666uk]

i am using realtek and no i cant play md through pc

[sfbp]

i am using realtek and no i cant play md through pc

Not sure what you mean by "using Realtek". Also NetMD is not designed to playback via the USB cable.

But assuming you were trying to send the MD's LINE OUTPUT (from headphone jack) to the LINE INPUT of your sound card on the PC, then the problem is as I stated.

Now try some other source of sound (this shouldn't be too hard, take the same cable's end that was in the MD and plug it into something with a 3.5 mm jack socket that is an output) and see if you can hear that on the PC. From what you're saying this might fail too. If it does, then the problem is likely nothing to do with minidisc.

If it works, then the minidisc is either broken or set wrong.

[deniz666uk]

minidisc is def not broken and my sound card is working

[raintheory]

does audacity show a waveform while it's recording / or when the recording is finished?

Edited July 15, 2008 by raintheory

[deniz666uk]

i can hear my music playing but there is no wave form in audacity whilst its recording

[raintheory]

well it definitely sounds like either an issue with the windows mixer or audacity... for some reason audacity isn't getting the signal.

seeing as you can hear the music, my feeling is that it is something in audacity. i haven't used audacity in ages, but perhaps someone here can point you in the right direction as far as selecting the correct audio input in audacity's preferences.

[sfbp]

I agree, Windows Mixer. Look at the advanced controls - maybe it thinks you need to set recording source to Line Input (or Aux or whatever you have plugged the cable into). You don't tell us the setup . If you can swap the to-computer cable for a headphone and it makes the headphones produce music, then the next thing is to find another sound source and see if that also fails to get to the computer, eliminating the MD from the equation.

I'm assuming an analog line input (not Toslink digital) here. I have exactly this problem on my Terratec, when trying to grab a waveform for recording with something similar to Audacity, because of where the sound card routes the input.