John Chambers wrote:
> But getting data from an analog medium into a disk file is generally
> something that takes a lot of wizardry, no matter what the medium
> might be. Most of the answers usually amount to "Pay me a whole lot
> of money, and I'll do it for you, but I won't explain how to do it in
> language that you can understand."
>
It's not so bad. If you are running windows you can use CoolEdit.
You're cornering me into writing an FAQ :-)
Not a bad idea. But CoolEdit doesn't seem to address the problem that
the original question asked, and which I was (perhaps too subtly)
getting at: Getting the bits off the analog medium and into the
computer in ANY form is often a major hurdle. If your turntable has
RCA plugs, and your computer doesn't have anything they fit into,
what do you do? Yeah, you can wire together an adapter to get the
signal into some port on your computer. But then what? For instance,
I could easily take the conductors in a pair of two-wire cables and
connect them to arbitrary pins in an RS-232 plug. This does get the
signal into the computer, in some sense. But your typical serial card
won't be able to make much sense of what the turntable is sending,
and there's no obvious way to get any sensible bits into a file this
way. Lots of computers now have sound cards of some sort, and it's
easy enough to connect random wires to the conductors of their
inputs. But this doesn't get any bits into a disk file or the stdin
file of any process.
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