Re: Sound recording on linux
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
Re: Sound recording on linux
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 -- __ Don Robertson Information and Communications Technology d...@robertson.net.nz www.robertson.net.nz 021 294 1452 03 322 8172
Re: Sound recording on linux
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.
