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[DouglasCarroll]

Played around with my vinyl/cassette rip setup. My workflow (using my 2006 MBP running Snow Leopard) is basically: record using Audacity in Snow Leopard, split the file into tracks in a Windows VM running LP Ripper (I use the shared folders feature on VirtualBox, so the VM can see the file), import and convert the tracks to AAC in Snow Leopard's iTunes and then copy that over to my 2012 MBP's iTunes. The Windows VM was using Windows 2000, but it booted really slowly (slower than any real hardware I've ever ran Windows 2000 on), so I made a new VM with XP. You can still activate over the phone in 2025, I just wish the link Microsoft sends you didn't expire and you didn't have to call Microsoft to get it. Anyway, XP boots way faster than 2000, so I'm keeping that VM.

The main reason I use the 2006 MBP is because my analog to digital converter doesn't work on USB 3.0, or so I thought. Turns out that's only when using the bundled LP Recorder software. No such problem when using Audacity on my 2012 non-Retina MBP. Glad to see that the latest Audacity still runs in Mojave. Copied over my XP VM to the 2012 as well, and so far I haven't been asked to re-activate. Hopefully it stays that way. I ended up redoing a couple of my recent rips on the 2012 because I recorded them too loudly on the 2006. I have to say, it makes more sense to use the 2012 for this purpose than the 2006 since the 2012 is where I manage my iPod, but I do love Snow Leopard. Only way I could manage my iPod on the 2006 is to run patched Mountain Lion (10.8 is the minimum OS for my daily driver iPod) and even then I'm not sure if I can still sign in to iTunes on 10.8.

Even if I do stop using the 2006 for vinyl/cassette rips, I think I'll still use the 2006 for VHS rips because while the 2012 would be convenient should I ever want to put my VHS rips on my iPod, EyeTV 2 doesn't work on Mojave, so I would have to either buy EyeTV 4, downgrade to Mountain Lion (EyeTV 2 does have hiccups on 10.8, but was otherwise fine in the tests I performed using one of my 2009 Minis), or dual boot with Lion. So, I think keeping the task of VHS rips on the 2006 and sneakernetting the rips over to the 2012 is the best for now.

Hello!

I also use my Macs for digitizing old cassettes and enjoyed reading your post.

I might point out though that you might consider ditching audacity and switching to “Sound Studio” instead. I’ve been using it for years and it’s great software that I find easy to use….I hate audacity.

Anyways, your workload would decrease by about 75% at least as you could handle your entire workflow in 1 program….record/split tracks/save to .AAC…..all in the same program.

Check out what I mean….(ignore the LP reference, same as cassettes)

Tutorial: How to Digitize LPs. - Sound Studio Support

This tutorial explains how to convert your record albums into digital audio. We’ll go through the equipment you'll need, how to set up your computer and turntab

ss-support.felttip.com

Older versions available on the website support Snow Leopard as well.

Have a nice day!

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

Nothing interesting LOL. I set up my 09 MBP next to my M2 MBP and am using it as a jukebox as it syncs via BT to my BT over ear headphones as my current iPhone and MBP refuse to connect to them. So instead of buying new over-ear headphones, which I'll probably do anyways at some point, for now I just stream tunes I want on the 09 MBP and listen that way.

I mean these were released in 2014, so they're pretty much 10 years old. Even though it's my understanding that BT tries to be reverse compatible, I get that things move on. Its just hard because these headphones have developed the perfect ear divots !

 

[mortlocli]

💯💯💯

That's it! Just booted it up to check and yep, shining a flashlight you can barely make out the windows and desktop. As it is the machine is usable at min brightness but good to know what the issue is.

I've a similar prob with an iMac 10,1 - I think I may have cooked the GPU while watching a movie in Linux ..with no fan control.


It boots to a black screen.
So on boot up I do this until the screen lights up:

'
'Reset PRAM/NVRAM: Cmd + Option + P + R
Apple Smart Keyboard Command Option P R
Parameter RAM, also known as nonvolatile RAM, holds information about your computer's current configuration. This includes the date and time, volume, desktop settings, and so on. Occasionally you'll run into issues related to sound, mouse scrolling, or keyboard that require a PRAM/NVRAM reset.

This is one of the most useful Mac troubleshooting commands. Shut down your Mac, power it up, then immediately hit the key combination above. Wait till your Mac reboots again, then let go of the combination.'

It will go into a boot up repeat while those keys are held down.. sometimes it fires up on the first or three repeats...sometimes over 20. Grrr !!


It's not a fix, but a way to make it useable.

 

[MacMaverick855]

@MultiFinder17 Where did you get that awesome little classic rainbow apple decal from? - the one that is on the mini. So cool

I’ve been trying to load MXLinux23 KDE onto my mid-2009 MacBook Pro. The first time went so smoothly I forgot what I did to install it. Then one day, it gave up, MX that is. Wouldn’t boot anymore. So I decided to reinstall it and managed to blow up the entire system. I was multi booting El Capitan, the DosDude Catalina patcher and then loaded MX on the third partition. Everything ran really well for a while and then WHAM!

In an attempt to repair the install I tried using the boot rescue menus presented when you first start up from the live USB, I made things worse. I have since Time Machined the El Capitan disk, reinstalled El Capitan, restored from backup and am now loading Catalina onto the second partition.

When finished I’d like to try to install MX again. My confusion comes from the following:

I have 100GB partition formatted in HFS+. When I get to the screen where it says to install to the whole disk or custom set up, the partition I want to install it on isn’t in the pull down menu. The only one that shows is the partition holding El Capitan. So then I think I need to do the Custom set up where I can see the 100GB partition. I chose “\” as to how I want to use the drive. (Probably my first mistake) Then I try to install it but on reboot, it doesn’t start up and my other MacOS partitions won’t boot either, in fact the efi boot Catalina drive doesn’t appear when starting up and holding down the Option key.

I haven’t been able to find direction on how to set up the custom partition. I’m curious if I have to, boot the live system, go into terminal (like a tty2) and use macfdisk to repartition the 100GB partition into an apple bootstrap, root, swap partitions and then try to install MX, I just don’t recall the original install being this complicated.\

Sorry for the word dump but I’m on my second attempt at restoring the MBP to pre MX status and would really like to avoid a third. In fact if this attempt fails I may have to bail on it which would be a bummer because MX Rocks!

Sincerely,
MacMaverick855

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

I’ve been trying to load MXLinux23 KDE onto my mid-2009 MacBook Pro. The first time went so smoothly I forgot what I did to install it. Then one day, it gave up, MX that is. Wouldn’t boot anymore. So I decided to reinstall it and managed to blow up the entire system. I was multi booting El Capitan, the DosDude Catalina patcher and then loaded MX on the third partition. Everything ran really well for a while and then WHAM!

In an attempt to repair the install I tried using the boot rescue menus presented when you first start up from the live USB, I made things worse. I have since Time Machined the El Capitan disk, reinstalled El Capitan, restored from backup and am now loading Catalina onto the second partition.

When finished I’d like to try to install MX again. My confusion comes from the following:

I have 100GB partition formatted in HFS+. When I get to the screen where it says to install to the whole disk or custom set up, the partition I want to install it on isn’t in the pull down menu. The only one that shows is the partition holding El Capitan. So then I think I need to do the Custom set up where I can see the 100GB partition. I chose “\” as to how I want to use the drive. (Probably my first mistake) Then I try to install it but on reboot, it doesn’t start up and my other MacOS partitions won’t boot either, in fact the efi boot Catalina drive doesn’t appear when starting up and holding down the Option key.

I haven’t been able to find direction on how to set up the custom partition. I’m curious if I have to, boot the live system, go into terminal (like a tty2) and use macfdisk to repartition the 100GB partition into an apple bootstrap, root, swap partitions and then try to install MX, I just don’t recall the original install being this complicated.\

Sorry for the word dump but I’m on my second attempt at restoring the MBP to pre MX status and would really like to avoid a third. In fact if this attempt fails I may have to bail on it which would be a bummer because MX Rocks!

Sincerely,
MacMaverick855

Well MX can’t see HFS+ out of the box if I understand correctly. HFS+ journaling doesn’t play well despite MX having no problem with ext4 for example. Anyways That is probably why it doesn’t see it in manual setup. There is a package (hfsprogs) that you can DL to give MX the tools to do so but that is after installation lol. There is lots of good instruction on using it online though. Have you tried reformatting the spare 100gb partition in disk utility to something stupid like fat32 etc. MX should see that no problem - then in the manual setup repartition as ext4 and install MX and grub to that?

- FYI I am no Linux master nor do I use Linux+ macOS as a dual boot config. The above is just a best guess on my part. I do recommend that if you haven’t yet, poke your head in the MX forum. Those folks are so nice, knowledgeable and super helpful.

Best of luck to you.

 

[Wowfunhappy]

split the file into tracks in a Windows VM running LP Ripper

Have you ever tried https://audioslicer.sourceforge.net/ I used to use this all the time for splitting audiobooks. Works with Panther; will definitely work in Snow Leopard.

You also might consider Fission, it's not free but it's a great Mac app. You can download 2.1.3 which will work in Snow Leopard.

 

[Haemoglobin]

I was gifted a 2012 MBP last week and I've spent the last couple of days, setting up High Sierra and finding compatible apps the will run on it. Using the apps store is hit and miss, often telling me it needs a newer version of MacOS. But thus far doing ok, I've not attempted using Spotify or anything like that.

 

[MBAir2010]

I was gifted a 2012 MBP last week and I've spent the last couple of days, setting up High Sierra and finding compatible apps the will run on it. Using the apps store is hit and miss, often telling me it needs a newer version of MacOS. But thus far doing ok, I've not attempted using Spotify or anything like that.

use Mt Lion is you just need only to use compatible apps better
as that will improve the performance, unless you need the latest tech.
also High sierra was not as a good as Mojave which improved greatly.
now Catalina has the  bells and whistles and will work on a MBP2012.

im tying this on a macbook air 2010 with snow leopard
see:

 

[Haemoglobin]

What are the advantages of Mountain Lion, how is it more compatible, than say High Sierra?

 

[DCBassman]

What have I done? Not much. After taking the G4s home from the house-sit, I have with me a 2011 MBP 15"11 running Ventura/OCLP. a 2011 MBA 11" running Catalina, and a 2013 MBA 11" running MX Linux. These are mainly being used as utility hacks while I work on reviving a Toshiba L655-16E laptop, a freebie that hasn't been used for eight years or so. It needs a new keyboard, although I can't see any spill damage. Incoming tomorrow. I'm typing on it now, using an external keyboard. If only Macs were as easy to upgrade...BT5.3/Wifi6 took all of 30 seconds to install from scratch. In fact, it took me longer to find the dongle...
It's running Windows 10 LTSC IoT 2021, security updates until 2031.

 

[Haemoglobin]

I managed to find a version of Spotify that'll work in High Sierra, so spent the morning listening to tunes while having my breakfast, it's been absolutely awesome.

 

[DCBassman]

I managed to find a version of Spotify that'll work in High Sierra, so spent the morning listening to tunes while having my breakfast, it's been absolutely awesome.

One of those nice things that really make your day!

 

[MacInTO]

I was gifted a 2012 MBP last week and I've spent the last couple of days, setting up High Sierra and finding compatible apps the will run on it. Using the apps store is hit and miss, often telling me it needs a newer version of MacOS. But thus far doing ok, I've not attempted using Spotify or anything like that.

Nice! I have a 2012 MBP also and run HS on it. I use Aperture, Photoshop, Illustrator CS6 and iLife. I may upgrade to Mojave, but it works fine with HS.

 

[Certificate of Excellence]

My kiddos 24" A1225 started to artifact and stripe across a functional desktop screen. I assumed the GPU but took it apart testing the LCD cable to make sure they were seated properly (while rough housing a few months back, this Mac got knocked off its desk & landed quite hard/bent its stand a bit). They were ok so I have deduced it is likely the GPU. It originally came with the Nvidia geforce GT 130 but I have found a cheapish 120 for $30 shipped so will give that one a shot. I also have some replacement speakers for my 17” a1173 2006 C2D iMac @ $17 shipped & will get those installed as well. The current ones I repaired with some flexible adhesive but they distort at moderate volume.

It’s pretty cool that Basilisk is supported on & will run & play YT kids on this old iMac for my kids.

 

[dandeco]

Today I filmed a fursuit vlog on MiniDV where I talk about the 30th anniversary of the format, and rather than edit it on an older iMovie or Final Cut, I decided to edit it in the Windows version of Adobe Premiere 6.5!

I achieved this on my early 2008 Core 2 Duo 15" MacBook Pro running Windows XP via Boot Camp. It was a little longer and trickier compared to more modern Adobe Premiere Pro versions, especially since I was still a little rusty (I last really used Premiere 6.5 when I was in high school!) But here's the finished vlog: