[HM] Help importing audio into my G4

Duane Murphy duanemurphy at mac.com
Mon Jul 25 15:57:53 PDT 2005


--- At Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:40:20 -0700, Jack Honeycutt wrote:

>Folks...
>
>I have lost the book for my dual 1.24 G4 processor tower Mac.   I am 
>running the latest Tiger release. I need some help importing audio into 
>this machine.  I have a cassette deck with RCA outputs.  I would like to 
>plug my deck into my Mac and import audio from a cassette tape.  How do I 
>do that?
>
>I found what looks to be audio jacks in the back of the machine.  One 
>appears to be a speaker out jack.  The other jack is a sideways pyramid 
>facing another pyramid with a circle between them. I guess if I had been 
>paying attention during Stargate Atlantis, I would know what this is the 
>International symbol of. But I don't.  Another jack is a symbol of a almost 
>1/2 circle with sound coming out of it.  Maybe this is a headphone jack?
>
>I am guessing the two pyramid jack is audio input? If this is the case, I 
>need to drive to Radio Shack and buy a plug that will fit it.  What is this 
>plug called?  Is this the 1/4 inch banana/orange fruitcake hybrid?  Or 
>maybe the Phono-Scratch 1/2 inch mini twist-&-pull? I know it must have a 
>name & size.
>
>So, don't I need to know the impedance of the imput of the audio jack in 
>the Mac?  Can I just adapt the RCA connector output of my cassette deck, to 
>the proper jack in the Mac, &  plug it in?
>
>Assuming I get that far, do I launch iTunes to import audio?
>
>When all of this is over & done, I am dropping this audio into  iMovie.
>
>Any tips for the un anointed would be greatly appreciated.

Take a search around the MacWorld or MacAddict web sites. There have
been several articles about how to capture audio. 

I do know that iTunes won't help. You 'll need to use something else.
The articles should help with what that something is.

Good luck,

 ...Duane



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