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Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports



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>---- Original Message ----
>From: richgrif@one.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: digitalizing audio records from vinyl supports
>Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 20:12:02 -0500
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>>On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:20:15 +0200, Bernard wrote:
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>>> Hi to Everyone !
>>> 
>>> What software would you advise for a realistic job, I mean : a
>fair
>>> quality without too much trouble. My systems : Debian Sarge on my
>>> desktop, Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) on my laptop.
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>>I did a lot of these conversions this past year.  I was still using
>Sarge 
>>and KDE 3.5 at the time.
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>>I have a turntable that has a "line out" connector.  I fed this to
>line 
>>in on the computer's audio card.
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>>I used Krec to record an entire side of a record and save to the
>hard 
>>drive as a .wav file.  I wanted to use Audacity directly, but for
>some 
>>reason Audacity superimposed a high-pitched whine on the recordings
>that 
>>I couldn't make go away.
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>>I then used Audacity to cut each .wav file into separate tracks 
>>(manually, one track at a time) and save those as .mp3 files using
>lame.  
>>I did some .ogg, but mostly mp3.
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>>"Without too much trouble"?  Well, it was pretty laborious, but the 
>>results are good.
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>>Hope that helps.
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>>.... Rich
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If your turntable doesn't have a "line out" (mine didn't) you can
purchase an in-line preamp for a modest sum (mine was purchased from
DAK)
Larry
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