Recording from line-in with Audacity on Linux Mint 12.

I have my mobile telephone connected with a male-male 3.5mm cable to my computer and I wanted to record segments from the radio to the computer with Audacity. This is how I achieved that. And also configuring the alsamixer settings properly to enable the line-in port as the capture source will help with this. This … Read more

Computer tape drives coming back to the computers of 2012.

Computer tape drives were all the rage in the early days of computing, with computer tape drives able to store massive amounts of data these days. The early computers used tape to store computer programs and information on reel to reel tapes that were on giant reels that were threaded on and then read at … Read more