[TriLUG] Sound recording/editing/archiving - where to start?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 11:28, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:
> 
> 
> I'm just asking very basics right now like can it be done - so
> simple/basic responses welcomed :)
> 
> I access to a very good sound system (well, as much as I know about
> systems). I would like to be able to take output from the sound board
> into a Linux server for (1) archival purposes and (2) editing purposes.
> What's recorded would need to be easily edited and written to CD for
> playing on regular CD players and such. There is some additional
> equipment that the recordings go to now (ie mini-cd?, music cd, tape).
> 
> So I guess I want to know if this is reasonably possible to do. If you
> have any links to really beginner sites explaining this stuff or have
> pitfalls to avoid - I'd appreciate any advice :) And obviously I'm not
> exactly sure what I'm talking about above so if something doesn't make
> sense - ask and I'll get more clarification.

Hi Lisa,

I'm not sure if this will help or not, but I've successfully
converted some cassette tapes to mp3s by reading them into the
sound card, editing them, and then saving as mp3s.  For getting
the sound in, I actually used a video editing too called
broadcast 2000.  You can actually have it just capture audio
(instead of both audio and video).  I then took that audio
(which iirc, was in .wav format) and used Audacity to edit
and save as mp3s.  

For burning to regular cd, you can just avoid the mp3 conversion
as most cd burning programs will take .wav files directly do the
necessary conversion (which, I believe, i just stripping off some
header information) for music CDs.  I've generally used X-CDroast,
but there are other cd burning programs out there.

Tanner
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