Hi There. I don't know windows XP but I do own Windows 98 se. Now, I am not sure if you are picking the correct option or not. Only trial an error may solve your problem. Now ifyou are trying to digitize cassettes from a tape deck, I'd suggest line in because you have the advantage of being able to use JAWS or whatever speech program you have to start and stop recording without worrying about the speech interfering with the recording. Next: I will give you a brief description of how I access Windows 98. Press insert f 11 to go to system's tray, select volume, then open volume control. Alternatively you could select programs menu, accessories, then entertainment, then volume. Press the alt key, till you find properties. Press enter, then you'll hear the name of your sound card, mine is sb live. Press tab till you hear the radio button playback settings, then press down arrow to change the radio button to recording settings. Press enter. Now, there is a list view you can look at and use space bar to select and unselect what is shown. Just press okay button and leave the list view alone. Then up comes a dialog that says what you hear, with a check box you either check or uncheck. You go through the list of stuff till you find what you want, in this case if you hear the what you hear option then make sure the box is checked with the volume being set to 100%. There you are. Close the window with alt f 4. Now That's all. I should also add that in this list view that you have when you select recording settings has various things your sound card can record, look through that list view and if you find what you hear, then press space bar on that option and you'll see it in the list of check boxes after selecting okay. Does anything I say make sense? Does anything I say confuse you? Did I do a good job of explaining or a bad one or so so? Please let Me Know. Hope all works out. I record tapes on my machine for my friends as .mp3 files and no a little bit on how to do it, but I am not professional. Peace Out! From Max the one strange dude! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <blindcasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 10:35 PM Subject: What You Hear in XP Home > Good evening everyone, > > I'm wanting to record audio from all devices on our computers and need > to activate the, "What You Hear" Option in Windows XP Home Edition SP2. I > looked for the item in the Recording Volume Options in the Volume Controls > Property Sheet, but don't find it anywhere. Someone told me that the setting > for activating What You Hear in XP Home is the same as it was in Windows 98. > While I don't find What You Hear listed there's an option called > Other/Line-In 2. Is this the same as What You Hear under Windows 98? I need > to digitize some audio from old cassette tapes to .MP3 Format so being able > to set this thing is important. Your help will be very much appreciated. > > Peter Donahue > >