You hear "playback" sounds... That is a good sign...  Most of the settings for
the OS did not change much over the different OS versions other than being a little
different for different sound drivers. In other words, they are a little hardware specific
but "in general" will "close enough". We can "hope for", (but can't assume), a perfect
match, so some settings might look slightly different.)

The first steps are to "make some settings" to the OS and sound hardware
and "sound "card drivers...

If you have a Volume control Icon near your clock, right click that.
Click on "Adjust Audio Properties"
(If not, go to Control Panel and click on "Sounds and Audio Devices")
On the Volume tab, in Device volume, 
click "Place volume icon in the task bar" (this step is optional),
then click Advanced just under that. (One line down, not the lower one.)
In the Master Volume setting box that comes up,
click on Options, then properties, Then Recording.
Select all items so they will show later.
Click "OK"
You should now be in the "Recording Control" settings screen.

Start some input sound you will attempt to "capture".
Turn up all the volumes and select different inputs while watching
your sound capture PROGRAM for an input that seems to respond to
the variations in the sound. (Mine has an "LED meter bar" that measures
sound volume and it is easy to see I'm looking at the correct input,
(just selected above).
Once you get this far, you need to learn your recording program,
(How to start and stop recording, and where it stores the files, etc...)

The "first step" settings above will be necessary to get anything into your
software... And might need to be (re-)done after each "re-boot",
(I forget if they "stay" or not...)

In audiograbber (if you install it) go to "File", "Line in sampling"
and complete all the required steps from there.
This got real long so I'll stop here, mostly because  I am not "pushing" a
particular program.

I use audiograbber, a freeware program good for all versions of Windows...
<http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/>  I have no connection with audiograbber...

Good luck...

                                         Rick Glazier

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jokester"
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> I have a Sony ICD-B500 digital recorder with some audio on it that I need 
> to get off of it.  It does have a headphone jack and when I plug it into 
> the sound card on my machine (A7N8X-E deluxe motherboard) I can hear the 
> output via my speakers
> Am I doing something wrong?

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