How do you record *audio* from a tape *cassette* to the computer, and finally, to a *CD* recordable disc?
in UBUNTU Linux
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:28 PM, IPS Khurana ipskhurana@gmail.com wrote:
How do you record *audio* from a tape *cassette* to the computer, and finally, to a *CD* recordable disc?
in UBUNTU Linux
I would say a standard 3.5"(IIRC) cables from the audio out of the cassette player to the line in port of your sound card and Sound recorder using Line In.
Regards, Easwar Registered Linux user #442065
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 15:28, IPS Khurana wrote:
How do you record *audio* from a tape *cassette* to the computer, and finally, to a *CD* recordable disc?
You connect the line out of your cassette player to the line in of your pc audio card. Then arecord -d xx -f cd -t wav -D device copy foobar.wav where xx is the duration of recording in secs and device is the input device selected by alsamixer or as set in ~/.asoundrc. usually -D /dev/dsp0 is what you use. The file will be a cd quality wav file. man arecord will give you details You may also use krec or vlc or any number of other tools to capture, transcode and compress. Your casette player has to be of a very high quality cause the wow and flutter components are horribly audible in a digital recording.
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:09:40 pm jtd wrote:
arecord -d xx -f cd -t wav -D device copy foobar.wav
wav? what happened to ogg?
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 16:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:09:40 pm jtd wrote:
arecord -d xx -f cd -t wav -D device copy foobar.wav
wav? what happened to ogg?
.wav is a standard pcm file, the -cd specifying the sampling rate, stereo, endianess, and other basic sampling parameters. On a linux box it is uncompressed. The format is open. On a doze box a.wav file can contain a compressed file (though usually not) and could mangle your music in weird ways. Once you have a "linux" wav file you can use ogg or flac (preferable). Dont use mp3 - it' proly the worst format.
jtd wrote:
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 16:45, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 04:09:40 pm jtd wrote:
arecord -d xx -f cd -t wav -D device copy foobar.wav
wav? what happened to ogg?
.wav is a standard pcm file, the -cd specifying the sampling rate, stereo, endianess, and other basic sampling parameters. On a linux box it is uncompressed. The format is open. On a doze box a.wav file can contain a compressed file (though usually not) and could mangle your music in weird ways. Once you have a "linux" wav file you can use ogg or flac (preferable). Dont use mp3 - it' proly the worst format.
Thanks for the information. I have always used audacity to capture the song, and exported as wav file, flac and mp3. Though mp3 is the worst format I still have to use it, as none of the stand alone players (cheap chineese ones) could play anything but mp3. I use the flac for playing on the computer and wav to transfer it to CD.
Next time I use this, I will try out your method.
Thanks and regards.
sadhu
On Thursday 06 November 2008 12:05, Nachiketa Sadhu wrote:
Dont use mp3 - it' proly the worst format.
Thanks for the information. I have always used audacity to capture the song, and exported as wav file, flac and mp3. Though mp3 is the worst format I still have to use it, as none of the stand alone players (cheap chineese ones) could play anything but mp3.
In case of portable players and tiny earplugs reproduction is very suspect anyway. Many apply boosts to the music so that it sounds better on headphones. The end result when compared with the original wav is ghastly.
I use the flac for playing on the computer and wav to transfer it to CD.
Good practice.
IPS Khurana wrote:
How do you record *audio* from a tape *cassette* to the computer, and finally, to a *CD* recordable disc?
in UBUNTU Linux
Use Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/features
Connect your cassette player to the Line Input of your sound card, and record.
Audacity supports export to WAV,AIFF and also Ogg formats.
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