[LAU] vinyl import to FLAC

[Roger]

Martin Horn wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I want to rip a bunch of vinyls to FLAC. I first tried Audacity but 
> when I change the interface to my Audio 4 DJ in preferences Audacity 
> gets killed. Can anybody help or suggest another recording device? 
> Also when recording with the built-in Sound Recorder (UbuntuStudio 
> Karmic) and then trying to open (import) the files with Audacity just 
> does nothing (although the Movie Player plays the files correctly.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
> Martin
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A very useful utility for splitting vinyl recordings is wavbreaker. It 
detects silence points and allows you to set a marker at split points.
For bulk conversion of wav to flac, this command string works well:
$ find . -name "*wav" -exec flac -5 {} \;

Roger