audiotape to cd - comp.os.linux.misc

Dear all, I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. I have a CD burner as well as a mic input to my machine. Does anyone could help me to figure out how to proceed? It looks like I could use record to dump .wav files but then I would like to be able to edit the files (filtering, cutting, ...) before converting to iso file and burn CD. What kind of software can I use. Any help is welcome! Cheers, Patrick

Patrick Guio wrote: > I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. I have a CD burner as > well as a mic input to my machine. Does anyone could help me to figure out > how to proceed? It looks like I could use record to dump .wav files but > then I would like to be able to edit the files (filtering, cutting, ...) > before converting to iso file and burn CD. What kind of software can I > use. Any help is welcome! First you should use line input, especially if your tapes are stereo, adjust level with a mixer (aumix,gnome-alsamixer, mix2000 or so, there are dozens) the use a recording program that has some other features like cut,paste,fade in,fare out. There are dozens, i'm using successfully audacity 1.2.0, then you simply make audio cd from the wav files with cdrecord.

In article <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0402061308200.13549@aurora.uio.no>, Patrick Guio <patricg@fys.uio.no> wrote: > I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. I did the same thing. Well, I got as far as recording and making MP3s from the cassettes, before I didn't have to any more. > I have a CD burner as well as a mic input to my machine. You need line input, and since most inputs on consumer-grade cards are 1/8" female jacks, and most headphone outputs are 1/8" female jacks, you need a double-male stereo 1/8" cable. Mic inputs are usually mono, plus their impedance is wrong. > Does anyone could help me to figure out how to proceed? What I did was set arecord (I think... part of ALSA, but you can use any program) to record for the length of the tape plus a bit of slop, then start the tape playing. A cable went from headphone out to line in. > It looks like I could use record to dump .wav files but then I would like > to be able to edit the files (filtering, cutting, ...) before converting > to iso file and burn CD. What kind of software can I use. http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/software/snd/ Audio CDs have no filesystem, hence no .iso . "cdrecord ... track_1.wav track_2.wav ... track_n.wav" is all that's necessary. -- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar CANCER: The position of Jupiter says that you should spend the rest of the week face down in the mud. Try not to shove a roll of duct tape up your nose when taking your driver's test. -- Weird Al

> I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. I have a CD burner as > well as a mic input to my machine. Does anyone could help me to figure out > how to proceed? It looks like I could use record to dump .wav files but > then I would like to be able to edit the files (filtering, cutting, ...) > before converting to iso file and burn CD. What kind of software can I > use. Any help is welcome! > Cheers, Patrick I use gramofile (http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/) to capture the audio, split into tracks and do preliminary filtering. If it needs more work, I use glame (http://glame.sourceforge.net/). -- -John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)

RRB <removethis.basv@removethis.gmx.at> wrote: >> I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. > i'm using successfully audacity 1.2.0 I could never get audacity to work for me under X (the Windows version works reasonably well, though). Whenever I touch a menu option the entire application just freezes. Chris

chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk writes: > RRB <removethis.basv@removethis.gmx.at> wrote: > >> I would like to convert some old audio tapes to CDs. > > > i'm using successfully audacity 1.2.0 > > I could never get audacity to work for me under X (the Windows version > works reasonably well, though). Whenever I touch a menu option the entire > application just freezes. > Odd. It works like dream on my Mandrake 9.1 - with one important exeption though: there seems to be something wrong with the sound-card driver so listening or recording through Audacity produces a rather distorted music experience. Manipulating sound that is already digital works great. So what I use for recording is either Rezound or Gramofile and if I need to do something to the 'record' I do it in Audacity. Rezound is a bit intmidating with all its features and it shares the analog output quality problem with Audacity. Rezound is actually worse but then I am running a beta. Recording is OK. Grammofile is super simple when it comes to GUI design (student project) but it works. Cheers, -- ======================================================================== Martin Sch��n <Martin.Schoon@ericsson.com> "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back" Piet Hein ========================================================================

Sch=F6=F6n Martin wrote: =2E.. >>>i'm using successfully audacity 1.2.0 >> >>I could never get audacity to work for me under X (the Windows version >>works reasonably well, though). Whenever I touch a menu option the enti= re >>application just freezes. >> > Odd. It works like dream on my Mandrake 9.1 - with one important exepti= on > though: there seems to be something wrong with the sound-card driver > so listening or recording through Audacity produces a rather distorted > music experience. Manipulating sound that is already digital works > great. So what I use for recording is either Rezound or Gramofile and > if I need to do something to the 'record' I do it in Audacity. >=20 > Rezound is a bit intmidating with all its features and it shares > the analog output quality problem with Audacity. Rezound is > actually worse but then I am running a beta. Recording is OK. >=20 > Grammofile is super simple when it comes to GUI design (student > project) but it works. I had some recording problems (line in low volume) with 1.2.0 pre1 now i = updated to pre3 and it works very well. (suse 8.0 k2.4.18 soundchip=20 cm8738 module cmipci) Gramofile has very nice feature to find silence between tracks. Audacity -among other features- has a very good denoiser. (useful for=20 old hissy tapes ...:-) robert.

RRB <removethis.basv@removethis.gmx.at> writes: > Sch��n Martin wrote: > >> > > Odd. It works like dream on my Mandrake 9.1 - with one important exeption > > though: there seems to be something wrong with the sound-card driver > > so listening or recording through Audacity produces a rather distorted > > music experience. Manipulating sound that is already digital works <snip> > > I had some recording problems (line in low volume) with 1.2.0 pre1 now > i updated to pre3 and it works very well. (suse 8.0 k2.4.18 soundchip > cm8738 module cmipci) 1.2.0 pre3 is what I use too but still I have to check results using xmms. I clearly have a different sound chip (don't remember what right now). > > Audacity -among other features- has a very good denoiser. (useful for > old hissy tapes ...:-) > I tried that one last night with rather funny results since the noise was not really noise but an intermodulation by-product from the radio broadcast. The music became noise-free all-right but the orchestra sounded like there was water in the instruments :-) The effect remained even when I tried very small noise reduction (most of the noise remaining). Cheers, -- ======================================================================== Martin Sch��n <Martin.Schoon@ericsson.com> "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back" Piet Hein ========================================================================

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, RRB wrote: Dear all, I am porting my old audio tapes onto CD. I have some different types of noise, amongst them "hiss" noise, not well located in frequency. Does anyone knows about any piece of software that would do the job to remove this kind of noise? (Maybe Dolby nr like filter?) Sincerely, Patrick

On 2004-02-16, Patrick Guio <patricg@fys.uio.no> wrote: > I am porting my old audio tapes onto CD. I have some different types > of noise, amongst them "hiss" noise, not well located in frequency. Does > anyone knows about any piece of software that would do the job to remove > this kind of noise? (Maybe Dolby nr like filter?) I have used "glame" to remove this type of hiss: http://glame.sourceforge.net -- -John (JohnThompson@new.rr.com)

In article <Pine.SOL.4.58-L.0402161254080.10604@aurora.uio.no>, Patrick Guio <patricg@fys.uio.no> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, RRB wrote: > > I am porting my old audio tapes onto CD. I have some different types > of noise, amongst them "hiss" noise, not well located in frequency. Does > anyone knows about any piece of software that would do the job to remove > this kind of noise? (Maybe Dolby nr like filter?) 'sox' with a low-pass filter? -- -eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar "God does not play dice" -- Einstein "Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking

Patrick Guio <patricg@fys.uio.no> wrote: > > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, RRB wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am porting my old audio tapes onto CD. I have some different types > of noise, amongst them "hiss" noise, not well located in frequency. Does > anyone knows about any piece of software that would do the job to remove > this kind of noise? (Maybe Dolby nr like filter?) How about dnoise in the unoffical-csound package? Cheers, Rob Komar