On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Don Robertson <d...@robertson.net.nz> wrote: > On 23/05/10 22:01, Andrew Errington wrote: >> >> On Sun, 23 May 2010 18:31:56 Julian Visch wrote: >> >>> >>> Have a huge audio tape collection and think it is high time I started >>> converting them into some form of digital format while tape decks still >>> exist. What would people recommend, SoundStudio seems to be able >>> to record but these files will be huge, should I be converting to vorbis >>> or >>> mp3 or what? >>> >>> thanks >>> >> >> Audacity to record the files as WAV audio, then FLAC to archive them on >> your >> server and MP3 to carry them around. Delete the WAV once you've finished >> twiddling with it. >> >> A >> >> > > I have used audacity in the past and it worked fine. > > At the time I thought it was such a shame I could not just get them out of > the library on CD and rip them - after all I had paid for them at least once > - some I had on tape and vinyl - but that would be illegal and I could not > possibly do that. > > don
gramofile works well too, designed for recording from vinyl but works with anything. Most of these methods are going to record a .wav pcm file. From there conversion to flac (for lossless compression) or mp3/ogg for playing on other equipment is simple.
