Topic: so now i've got the soundcard installed. UPDATE

[ashevillain]

you will get a message after a reboot that says to the effect that the M-Audio panel was not found or did not start, and the control panel icon fails to appear in the tray. In my case, all I have to do is find the tray icon executable, double-click and it starts up, no problem. On my system, the file is named delttray.exe; and it's located in the system32 folder.

Yikes! I never had that happen...

Mark, you are pretty much there...

Damn. I had a bunch of screenshots that I found describing how to set up the AP2496. I guess the owner of the page I linked them from didn't like that and took them down or moved them. Sorry!

[Steve J]

Yeah, the whole tray icon failure thing was a mystery to me. It seemed to happen after I ran Windows updates (go figure    )

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

okay,all i'm seeing in cliff's post is red x so I don't know what he's talking about.
once I figure it out I guess I'm ready to slap a dat in and see if I can get noise
into cd wave editer

[ashevillain]

once I figure it out I guess I'm ready to slap a dat in and see if I can get noise
into cd wave editer

Well that was going to be my next suggestion. Just put in a tape and start playing it...then start changing the settings until you hear sound. Honestly, when I first got into transferring and got my 1st soundcard that's exactly what I did...I had no clue what to do and learned pretty much everything by trial and error. There really isn't anything that you can fuck up by changing software settings...you can always change it back the way it was if it's not right.

[nic]

its been a couple of years since I used the Audiophile but I can probably walk you through it.

the Audiophile control Panel should be pretty much identical to what SteveJ posted earlier in the thread.
What you need to do is make a couple of presets that you can load:
1-transferring from digital source
2-playback from internal harddrive
sounds like you've heard sounds from the speakers so you have the hardware setup correctly.

start off by setting up your standard playback preset. open up a media player(winamp, itunes, real, wmp, etc) and play a file.
when you have everything working click "save" on the control panel and label it something self-explanatory. if you will be playing multiple sample rates you might want to set up 2 playback presets, 1 for 44.1 and the other for 48.

once you have your playback presets created hook up the digital source you want to transfer and the recording app you will use.
go ahead and hit play on the source and record on the app. in the control panel you will have to set the clock source to spdif or external. now match up the sample rate to the source (this is crucial to avoid the "slow" or "chipmunk" sound - the Audiophile does not auto sync sample rate). on the "monitor mixer" tab, unmute everything and drag the levels all the way up. on the "patchbay/router" tab will have to select various settings...if I remember correctly, you need to change 1 setting on the left and 1 on the right. make a change then check if the recording app is showing levels. this is more crucial than if you can hear the digital source. once you get levels showing in the app and you can hear it over the speakers, click save and name it something obvious...again, make a second preset with an alternate sample rate.

when I used this card I had 8 different presents created:
digi in 44.1
digi in 48
analog out 44.1
analog out 48
digi out 44.1
digi out 48
anaolg in 44.1
analog in 48

its alot easier to just load>select prest than to manually change the control panel settings everytime you did something

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

so I have sound from the dat to my speakers!!  

I went through the tabs and changed settings until the music stopped or
the sound changed so the way I have it now it seems to be kosher 

so it looks like my next step is to open cd wave editor and try to record to my
harddrive thanks and +T's to all

[shaggy]

Do a small sample b4 you commit to a whole transfer (like 10-20 min).  Listen to that carfeully with headphones when it is done (don't blaze b4 hand, really listen to it).  You do not want any glitches, like static or pops....even one is unacceptable (you need to make sure it is not crowd noise or other ambient stuff...that is why you want a clear head)!  Make sure your rate sample setting are what you actually recorded or it will sound slow or fast depending (if you did 48khz, set the card at 48 and CDWave editor to 48).

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

funny you should mention that andy,I stopped 20  minutes in and tried to
listen to it but I have no audio when I open media player I'm too tired
to mess with it anymore so i'll give it another go tomorrow after work.

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

a simple d/l of the latest media player solved my no sound problems on playback
so now it seems that is working in all the right areas and since then(yesterday)I
have managed to pull down a phish show and I'm on my 2nd MMW show right now
pretty easily with only one call to verify something.

so tuesday is my day off this week and I'm going to dedicate it to picking out one
of my tapes,transferring it and starting my 1st torrent.

[F.O.Bean]

a simple d/l of the latest media player solved my no sound problems on playback
so now it seems that is working in all the right areas and since then(yesterday)I
have managed to pull down a phish show and I'm on my 2nd MMW show right now
pretty easily with only one call to verify something.

so tuesday is my day off this week and I'm going to dedicate it to picking out one
of my tapes,transferring it and starting my 1st torrent.

congrats mark, i upload via my fgriends comps and have been happy doing that too

nothing like uploading your own shit

[Steve J]

Man...Mark installing sound cards and The Evil Moderator seeding bit torrents. Has the whole world gone CRAZY?!! 

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

who'd a thunk it huh?  I got an email from my old house mates and it was just that
gif of the pigs flying  yeah,I use to talk bad about the net and electronic trading

anywho,I have my 1st show of choice ready to go and am at the half way point,I went with
soulive from 11/04 raleigh since it was an hour an eleven minutes just to get my toes wet.
I have the dat transfered into cdwave and the track splits placed already and I need to go back
and name them,so this is where I do the
2004-21-11  d1t1
2004-21-11  d1t2
and yada yada yada

chucky showed me all this @ 5 in the morning the night we got back from osaka so the rest
is a haze oh,and I guess I need to go register in etree before Ido anything else,duh 

[chucky]

Yup, I remember hearin you downin electronic trading just a couple weeks ago.
It's crazy huh?  so easy/fast.

I just got my first computer not even a year ago, and Andy had me cracking
that bitch open. I was just like THATS IT, I can build this from scratch right now.
I thought I would fuck it up too, but so easy.

[Just Taper Mark from NC]

yeah,josh has me talked into a video card now too

so i've figured out that I need to save this,so when I click save
do I want to put it back in to the same folder  and I choose
output mode for FLAC right?

[chucky]

Yup, after you stop the show it automatically saves the whole shows wave.
After you cut it up you can just kick it out in FLAC, and if you want
you can go back and save it again in WAV if you need to burn it to disc.