[TriLUG] Transferring audio cassettes to CDs with Linux

[Tom Bryan]

On Thursday 16 September 2004 07:54 am, Michael Thompson wrote:
> Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> > 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.  

Hm.  I probably don't have anything considered high quality here.  

Of course, my focus is to listen to the CDs in a car (where I don't have a 
fancy audio system either), so I'm not sure how much I'll notice mediocre 
quality.  :-)  I'm not an audiophile by any means.  I have a relatively small 
collection of music, and I just want to have access to it on all of my 
devices (so, I need cassette, CD, and ogg vorbis).  

> Anything 'Sound Blaster' is also evil.  

Yikes.  All I have now is an old SB Live Value card.  :-P

> The line-in on SBs cant seem to handle enough of a signal to get a decent 
> recording without distorting,

I'll give it a try with a couple of tapes and see what it sounds like.

> I've destroyed a handful of SBs over the years trying to do home studio
> stuff.  

Yikes!  I've never "destroyed" any of my computer hardware during normal use.  
Perhaps there's a lot more to doing this kind of work than I thought.  

> I currently use a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 for recording and it has been
> nothing but GREAT, 

Thanks.  That doesn't look too expensive.  I'll check into it if the SB 
recordings are just unacceptable.

---Tom