Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

[Paul Hartman]

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> Dipping only slightly further offtopic, are they still pressing vinyl?
>>
>> Sales of vinyl LPs have actually gone up for the past 6 years, selling
>> 3.5 million new LPs last year, according to Nielsen SoundScan which is
>> the organization that tracks music sales/downloads in stores and
>> online. Meanwhile, sales of CDs have declined since their peak in
>> 2001.
>>
>>> I believe there are a number of tools for automatically splitting and
>>> transcoding audio input from a vinyl player.
>>
>> When I digitize vinyl or cassettes, I record the whole thing to a
>> single WAV file in Audacity. My turntable and cassette deck are hooked
>> up to my home stereo system, and the output from that is fed into my
>> line on on my PC. I try to adjust the input level manually to get as
>> loud as possible with no clipping, basically. I will run normalize on
>> the whole WAV afterward to see how close I was and listen to the
>> before and after to choose which one sounds better. I then use
>> wavbreaker to split it up into separate tracks. The process works well
>> for me.
>
> Does your receiver have a 'tape' out? That's usually a decent
> line-level output, so you shouldn't need to do any volume tweaking on
> your inputs. (Assuming your turntable and cassette deck are sending
> line-level out.)

When I am adjusting the level I mean I'm adjusting the input volume in
Audacity/ALSA (since not every record/tape/radio station comes in at
the same volume). The receiver does indeed have a line-out that does
not change regardless of how I adjust the settings on the receiver
itself (with the exception of the hard buttons for Dolby/Chrome
tapes).

> What are you using for digitizing? Your motherboard's builtin, a PCI
> board, or an external device? I don't have any non-noisy internal
> audio devices available to me[1], so I tend to use external devices.

I'm using the built-in ports on the rear panel which are noiseless as
far as I can tell.

Front panel is horrible, though. BZZ BZZZ EEEE BZZZ BZZ EE EEEE BZZZZ. :)