[linux-audio-user] Vinyl records and tape cassettes

[Andreas Kuckartz]

A few suggestions:

Gnome Wave Cleaner
http://gwc.sourceforge.net/

GramoFile
http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/

Cheers,
Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bengt Gördén" <bengan at sunet.se>
To: <linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: [linux-audio-user] Vinyl records and tape cassettes


>
> Hi,
>
> I've got a bunch of old vinyl (and even those before these) records
> and some old tape cassette that I would like to record and put on CD
> or in a non destructive format like FLAC. I've scanned (not thoroughly
> I must admit) the net to see if there is a tool for this. I think that
> it would be possible to use ardour, ecasound, audacity or similar. I
> found a tool that is called PhonoRipper:
>
> http://www.8ung.at/klappnase/phonoripper/phonoripper.html
>
> The author says that it isn't good with ALSA so I rather prefer
> something else. But I'll give it a try anyway.
>
> If anyone has an suggestion how to use ardour, ecasound, audacity or
> similar I would appreciate that.
>
> I'm not sure how to do the converting. Could this be a way?
>
> sample the vinyl/tape
> spilt into different tracks
> try to remove noise and such
> maybe normalize?
> and maybe jamin?
> convert to FLAC
>
> regards,
>
>
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