[TriLUG] Transferring audio cassettes to CDs with Linux

[Michael Hrivnak]

Try Audacity.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

It'll let you record an entire side into one big file, and then you can very 
easily cut and paste to your heart's content to make individual tracks.

Hit record on the computer, hit play on the casette player, you know the rest.

For the sake of audio quality, use the best cassette player you can get your 
hands on, and record at a high quality on the computer.  Onboard sound, 
especially on a laptop, is also best avoided.

Michael Hrivnak

On Thursday 16 September 2004 12:33 am, Tom Bryan wrote:
> Hi, all.  I'm back to one of my old projects, and I'm havnig trouble
> reconstructing what I learned last time.  I'm hoping that someone here has
> found a nice explanation somewhere about doing what I'm trying to do.
>
> I have a bunch of audio cassettes.  I'd like to record them to something
> like a .wav file and burn the audio to CDs.  (My car no longer has a
> cassette player.)
>
> I have read the "Analog Ripping HOWTO" at
> http://www.vanemery.com/Linux/Rip/rip-analog.html.
>
> I can follow those instructions and get audio recorded to my hard drive,
> but it requires me to babysit the recording and stop the "rec" program
> between each song on the tape.  Wow, that sounds horrible!  I have plenty
> of disk space (the 160 GB drive).  I have no problems with recording an
> entire side of a cassette and then later using some other software to help
> me split the one giant .wav into one .wav per song.  I even saw an app to
> do that or help me do that several months ago, but now I can't find it
> among my bookmarks.
>
> For once, I'm not very interested in learning all of the details of this
> aspect of Linux.  I'm just trying to convert dozens of cassettes to CDs so
> that I can listen to them in my car.  I've found a bunch of interesting
> applications (Audacity, Studio, Rosegarden, etc.) and I'm learning more
> than I really wanted to about audio in Linux (OSS, ALSA, aRts, oh my!). 
> I'd love for someone to post a link to a little magic app out there that
> will do all of this for me!
>
> ---Tom