On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I > recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big > task), and I'm willing to invest the time to do this. So, how do I go about > doing this?
It's simple: you have to connect the output of your tape/LP player to the Line In of your soundcard, push the play button on the player and record the music using some Linux software. For recording, I'd recommend `brec' (package: bplay), `arecord' (package: alsa-utils) or `wavr' (package: wavtools). You may want to edit the created audio file before compressing to split it into tracks or to apply some filters that make it sound better. <http://www.fomalhaut.de/myfiles/wavsplit-0.1.1.tar.gz> is a perfect and fast tool for splitting and you can use any of the professional audio editors for more difficult audio effects. To make it all easy, you can try `gramofile' (the package's name is the same) which combines all the functions mentioned above (including audio filters) and is able to guess the start and end point of the tracks, thus automatically split the recorded file to tracks. Regards, -- BALI, Andra's GPG keyID: 78560E1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
