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

[Michael Mol]

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.)

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.

[1] To be expected. The inside of a computer case is noisy both
electrically and in EM.

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