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Dave S wrote: |
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>Hi all, |
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>I need some advice, I need to convert some talks at my local group from |
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>tape to CD. I have a mike input on my audio card so connecting the audio |
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>should not be a problem. |
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>What file formats do standard CD players play ? |
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Standard CD audio is 44100 samples/s, 16-bit samples, LSB byte order. |
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So what you really want to do is capture the tapes to .wav files with |
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those parameters, then just pass the wav files to cdrecord for writing |
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to the CD. |
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>I would guess mp3 but |
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>there do not appear to be any mp3 encoders for linux, ogg would be great |
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>but I doubt that it would play. |
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A few CD players will now play mp3 files written in a standard ISO |
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filesystem. But it is a recent feature, and not terribly standard. |
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lame is probably the most popular mp3 encoder for Linux. |
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>Can anyone suggest an application to get the files from the tape & |
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>change them into said format ? |
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arecord -f cd tape.wav |
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arecord is part of media-sound/alsa-utils. |
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-Richard |
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