[ale] Recording from tape to cd

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

George Johnson wrote:
> Is there any application/utility for Linux that I can use that would allow
> me to burn music cd's from cassett tapes?  My guess is that I would have to
> record the item to wave file or something first.  I am currently running
> RH7.3, SuSE7.3 and Slackware 8.1.

I've done this with tapes as well as lps.  I do it all at the command 
line though, just the kinda guy I am. :(  Well, I do use a graphical 
mixer, gmix.

Anyway, I've got the tape2 out on my amp going into the line in on my 
sound card.

On gmix, I select the record radio button associated with the line 
input.  I then record with:

rec -s w -c 2 -r 44100 OUTPUT.wav

That generates the wav file I'll burn to the cd.  You'll need separate 
wav files for each tune. You might want/need to adjust your gain on the 
mixer, I've noticed the last disc I burned for my wife, which had a mix 
of lp tunes and cd tunes had an obvious difference in level between the 
cd tunes and the lp tunes.  My bad, but it's not enough that she want's 
me to burn another. :)

I then burn my wav files to a cd as follows:

cdrecord -v speed=n dev=x,x,x -pad -audio *.wav

> 
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Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?


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