Hi 'Yall On 2001.11.12 00:31 Andras BALI wrote:
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 01:19:40PM -0500, Stan Brown wrote: > Next, I would like to read in non CD sources, tapes, LP's et all. I > recognize I will hev to enter all teh artist/Album/Track data by hand (big > task), and I'm willing to invest the time to do this. So, how do I go about > doing this? It's simple: you have to connect the output of your tape/LP player to the Line In of your soundcard, push the play button on the player and record the music using some Linux software. For recording, I'd recommend `brec' (package: bplay), `arecord' (package: alsa-utils) or `wavr' (package: wavtools). You may want to edit the created audio file before compressing to split it into tracks or to apply some filters that make it sound better. <http://www.fomalhaut.de/myfiles/wavsplit-0.1.1.tar.gz> is a perfect and fast tool for splitting and you can use any of the professional audio editors for more difficult audio effects. To make it all easy, you can try `gramofile' (the package's name is the same) which combines all the functions mentioned above (including audio filters) and is able to guess the start and end point of the tracks, thus automatically split the recorded file to tracks. Regards,
Although, I must add, the most important thing is to get a really good quality sound card. Most PC sound-cards (or worse motherboard integrated sound systems) have pretty awfull ADC's, and are fairly noisy.
I think Turtle-beach makes cards with amongst best sound quality. There might be other good pro/semi-pro brands, but I have not recently researched this. If you are really serious about the sound quality of your recordings, the soundcard you use is the most important factor, and you should be prepared to spend a little money on it. But I'm sure $100 or so would buy a really nice card. In fact, even a $15 card is likeley so sound much better than motherboard sound.
Of course, do make sure whatever card you want to buy works in linux... I'm sure someone will point you to a convenient resource for finding this out :)
Oh, just thaught of another thing. IIRC, recordplayers need a special pre-amp. Its likeley that whatever amplifier you currently use with your recordplayer will take care of this. If this is the case, you should find a line level output from your amp to use on the PC. If you take the signal straight form the recordplayer, it will not only be very soft (and hence, noisy), but the tonal balance will be wrong.
Have fun Neilen
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