analogue to digital recording - Linux


Fzero

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I use harddiskogg for my cassette and vinyl conversions ... Typically to MP3 format.


http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php


I really like it and used it for years, on Windows though.


I'd rather not hook up my Windows laptop just for this task, does anyone know of a Linux ware that does this type if conversions?
 
Thanks notaz, tbh I didn't even know about 'arecord' or 'vumeter' commands but on looking up what they are, it sounds ideal.


Don't think I would really need a vumeter, if I'm correct in thinking that the arecord will simply record whatever is playing through my speakers via my soundcard [?]


...that sounds perfect, i'll look further into how to use that command properly, just read more about it on this page http://linux.die.net/man/1/arecord which was helpful - with some practice I think that would be the best and simplest way.


Also just had a quick scan through this http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/627 which looks like another way, using Audacity, which I've used before but only for loading MP3 files and truncating them ... didn't know I could record from vinyl source with that.


Your method looks cleaner though, quicker too probably once you know what you're doing.


I will look into that more


cheers
 
Well this corresponds to Unix philosophy - instead of having separate program for each task, you get lots of small commands that do basic things, which you can combine by piping to achieve more complex whole. In this case you can record uncompressed audio with arecord and pipe it to lame for encoding, of course you'll probably want to pass proper arguments to specify sample rate, etc. to arecord and things like bitrates to lame.
 
I like this philosophy ... I'm just not very clued up at all with the commands, I am in awe when I watch people do all sorts of stuff with just the terminal and their knowledge of command lines. [With my work I sometimes sit down with Linux admin folk and they do pretty much everything in PuTTY]


...One day ... one day I will learn more than listing directories and moving between them.


You've given me the main commands I need though, and I will look into additional arguments to add so that it does exactly what I want.


thanks again :)
 
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