[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I hooked the tape player to the line-in on my soundcard and created a
> .au by recording direct from /dev/audio, and turned that into a .wav
> with sox. But apparently the sampling rate if you do that is wrong --
> bladenc says something about a wrong subtype.
I think what you want to do is record to a .wav to begin with, and
skip the .au step (see below).
> Michael> If it's on analog tape you can plug the output of your
> Michael> tape deck to the LINE IN on your sound card and use arec,
> Michael> brec, snd, rec or similar tool to record it as a .wav and
> Michael> edit it in a sound editor like snd.
>
> That's my question: has anyone actually done this, and which of these
> have they used with what options?
There could well be a better way, but this is how I've done it:
- record guitar etc. on 4-track or other analog recording device
- set 4-track mixers to desired settings
- plug stereo outs on 4-track into sound card LINE IN jack
- use a mixer program ("amixer", "aumix", etc) to make LINE IN active,
mute all other inputs, set levels
- record .wav audio:
arecord -w -m file.wav
or
rec -c2 -r 44100 file.wav
(or use "brec" etc), and hit play on 4-track to record it
- then, to burn an mp3:
notlame file.wav file.mp3
(or bladenc, etc)
- to make an audio cd from the .wav files:
sox track1.wav track1.cdda
for all the .wav files, and then:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -audio track*.cdda
(or "cdwrite" etc)
Results:
http://dsl.org/music/discography/
See also:
Paul Winkler's Linux Audio Quality HOWTO, http://audio.netpedia.net
