Cassettes to CD

[mrkeef]

Hi!

I am a total newbie regarding sound, mp3, CD burning etc.

Here is the scenario. I have some cassettes I want to turn into CDs. Nothing illegal just me talking. I don't have a CD burner on my box, so I thought just plug the cassette player into the back of the box through line in and then turn it into mp3 (or whatever). Then I can edit it, send it through our LAN to one of my sons' boxes to burn the CDs.

Minor problem: I have absolutely no idea on how to do it!

What software do I need and how do I make it happen?

I'm running RH 7.3 with Gnome.

Thanks


Keith

[trommaster]

the best program for audio capture, imho is gramofile.
its ncurses based, so it runs in a console but it works quite well. it also has some scratch removal filters for records. basicly just hook up the player to audio in and let it rip
some people suggest puting the audio through a preamp before it goes into the puter, i think these are quite small and cheap and will greatly improve the sound.
if you have the hdd space, don't encode them to mp3, you write audio cds as wavs, so you will just loose quality if you encode them then have to 'uncode' them

[mrkeef]

Thanks Alastair, I'll download it and try it out!

[trommaster]

just a few things that i need to add, i was in a rush this morning to get out...
-your PATH variable needs to have . (current directory) in it -- export PATH=$PATH:.
-all the mixer settings need to be up (duh), the default gnome/kde one is fine., you need to set either line in or microphone as the recording device, and plug it into there.
-gramofile does have a track splitting tool, but its dodgy at the best of times, using gnoise may work better, i usually just make n copies of the file, n being the number of tracks, and chop it up in there using cut, then resaving it. you can see where the tracks start/end by looking for gaps in the sound waves. http://gnoise.sourceforge.net/

the gramofile homepage is http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/

i saw this on slashdot a few days ago, i must check it out... looks like it will be cool:
http://ardour.sourceforge.net/

Hope i haven't confused you.... :P :P
Alastair