as i understand it, you want your LP's converted to something digital... the answer is simple... irrespective of which OS you use... what you need to do is tap into the output of the player, and put that into the Line In port of your soundcard. There are several ways of doing this. You can look for a headphone jack on the player, and use the output from that to go to the line in. All you need is a wire with the convenient jacks. The jacks are easily available at your tv/auido repair shops. Your sound card will require a headphone jack ( the kind that fits into most walkmans/discmans)... I cant say with any degree of certainty what our player output will be like.
There are other ways of getting around this if your player does not have a headphone jack... look for AUX out's... typical R1R2 cables will be able to give you the input on the comp. this is actually a better method of getting the sound in as you're going to be getting it in stereo. If you ever connected your deck to your comp. just reverse the process... put output jack you use from the comp. into the line in (of the comp. ) and the input ends of the deck (RCA jacks) into the AUX out of the Record player There are several sound recorders available for linux, and they can record in several formats including MP3. If you're looking at sound quality (quality will vary on the quality of the LP being recorded and the method you use to record it...) then choose bitrates in excess of 192Kbps. For the software bit check out the following link... http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/apps/sound/recorders/ Keep in mind what you said about the beer... :) Aman --- Ashwin Baindur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I´ve got a stackful of LPs. Irreplacable to me. I > want to record them, myself. > I´ve got a Comp with Red Hat 8.0, a borrowed laptop > with Mandrake 9.2 and a > Record Plater (currently in disrepair). > > Can anyone tell me what hardware and software I > need? > Yes, I am googling and I am starting to go through > the chaff. > > If anyone know how, would really appreciate his help > in putting it up. Free > beer promised during sessions. > > Thanx in advance, > AshLin > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
