… a fool?
I spent most of the morning trying to make this cassette recorder thing work. It’s like an old-style walkman but connects to the PC via a USB cable and it is supposed to be able to convert cassette tapes (of which I have thousands) into *.mp3 files.
It cost me all of about €17:00 from an ALDI when I was on my travels the other week.
I could plug the machine in, with no problems, and the bleep that my PC gave me told me that it had accepted the connection, but the machine didn’t show up on Windows Exploder. An automatic-peripheral search failed to pick it up, and neither did a manual-peripheral search. I ended up reading every help file that I could find but to no avail.
I even left the tape player running to see if the Audacity program would register anything, but nothing there seemed to do anything.
Searching deepinto the bowels of the PC I did notice that I seemed to have acquired an “external USB microphone” that I had never had before. And when I unplugged the tape player the microphone disappeared, and when I plugged it back in, it came back again.
It was then that the penny dropped. I set the tape player to play, reopened “Audacity”, and in a brilliant flash of inspiration, I clicked on the red “record” button. And sure enough, off it jolly well went.
D’ohhhhh!!!
So having wasted all of the morning (and I did too, for it was 10:10 when I woke up), this afternoon I turned my attention to the radio programmes. But I didn’t make much headway as once more it was far too hot in here to do anything. 29°C in fact and even as I type, it’s 27.3°C
Not that i’m complaining because we can do with the warmth, but it’s still not conducive to work and I can understand why it is that these people go in for siestas.
