Why dont two Aps in the same puter talk to each other?

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Have this great little gizmo called the "EZ Vinyl and Tape Converter" that comes with a software disc that you upload to your computer. Together the gizmo and the program enable you to feed, and digitalize audio from a vinyl disk, or a cassette tape, into your computer music library.

Works great with my old Apple laptop which (like most apples) comes with I Tunes.

But when I uploaded the EZ Vinyl ap to my new windows 10 Dell computer the message came up "you cant use this program without having Apple I Tunes, and by the way if you wanna download I Tunes click here". So I clicked there and down loaded I Tunes. So now both I Tunes and EZ Vinyl are on my same desk top (even right next to each other).

But whenever I click on EZ the same page comes down telling me that I cant use it until have I Tunes, and it invites me download I Tunes again (even though I have it now).

So why doesn't the EZ Vinyl program "know" that I now have I Tunes?

How can I get the two programs to "talk" to each other?

Just a stab in the dark, but it may expect a different version of iTunes than the one you have installed? Try installing the same versions of iTunes and EZ Vinyl that are on your Apple laptop onto your Windows 10 machine. I always hate using iTunes on Windows, since it uses up massive resources and runs a boatload of helper services in the background, which slows down the computer.
I've never used a USB turntable with my computer, but if this one behaves like a generic audio input device, you can probably use a program like the Windows Sound Recorder or Audacity to record the audio and export it to an audio file. Probably not as user friendly as the EZ Vinyl software, though.

Thanks.

Other folks have recommended Audacity. Just now researched it. Audacity does two things I am looking for:enanbles you to upload analog audio, AND you can edit (which you cant do with EZ Vinyl by itself). And its free. So yeah ..audacity looks like the way to go.

It sounds like it might require certain libraries (program resources; not to be confused with your music library) that are only included with a specific version of iTunes. Perhaps the program is 32-bit, but the iTunes installation you have is 64-bit. They won't be able to use each other's libraries.

Anyway, if you want my honest opinion, I'd say keeping a Mac around for audio editing work is a good idea. OS X is well optimized for working with audio, and there's lots of resources out there for it.

I second what mr_bigmouth_502 said. Mac OS X is much more friendly than Windows for working with multimedia, so I'd recommend keeping a Mac in use for that purpose. Audacity has plenty of plugins available which can remove some crackles and pops, restore balance, and improve the overall quality of the sound.

I also don't believe that you're 116 years old!

If I recall correctly OS X works with audio at a lower latency than Windows, though this may or may not be true. Whatever the case may be, Macs are widely used in the world of professional audio. Skrillex made the entire Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP on a Macbook running Ableton Live, and this EP went on to become a huge sensation, so that says something.

Ironically, the startup sound for Windows 95 was created on a Mac by Brian Eno. That was before OS X, but still a Mac nonetheless.

I've heard he's never even used a Windows PC, and that he has no desire to.

I'm a bit late to the thread but I used a pay program, Spin It Again by Acoustica, to convert my vinyl library. It's been a while but the big plus was that it would split the album side into songs but also let you manually edit where one song ends and the other starts.

I was converting many LP so the auto split was quite a time saver.

Interesting.

That is a good feature of Acoustica: keeping the seperation of the tracks on an LP.

With the free standing CD burner I used to have, and with most computer software I know of now , its a pain to maintain the divisions between the cuts on an LP (ie make them into seperate and labeled digital tracks). You end up putting all of the songs on one side of the LP on one track, and all of the several songs on the flip side of the vinyl on another.

The other time saver with spin it again is that it can look up the track info for albums in it's database or let you enter the info while the album is being ripped. Also, it names the tracks with a number as well as name for easy import to iTunes or whatever.

While it is a pay program, there is a trial mode that gives you three or so rips to see if the program is worth it to you.