Need help in a conspiracy

[alex]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

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>alex wrote:
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>>My son in law is a High School music teacher and he's trying to 
>>translate his band music tapes to CD.  I'm trying to convince him that 
>>UBUNTU is a good way to do it but he's a MS Windows user and is 
>>reluctant to install UBUNTU in his computer. As it is, he has some 
>>difficulty moving .wav files with MS Windows.
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>>He does let me use a UBUNTU CD on his computer after I eventually 
>>convinced him that it doesn't install on his computer and he's able to 
>>do some very basic operations.
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>>I'm trying to convince him to try doing with it with the UBUNTU CD but I 
>>have no experience with music recording so I'm not able to offer any 
>>reliable guidance.  I feel that if I could demonstrate that it can be 
>>done with the UBUNTU CD he'd be convinced that he can do it too and he'd 
>>want to install it on the hard drive so he wouldn't need to wait for the 
>>the CD to set up.
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>>Can someone tell me where I can get information about copying taped 
>>music to CD with UBUNTU or perhaps offer some information from their own 
>>personal experience?
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>    Well, there's always the "line-in" port on the sound card; just plug
>in the tape player, set the volume, and run Audacity (in the repo) to
>capture from "Aux" or whatever they call it on the card.
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>    I've used Audacity for a lot of things, but directly from tape isn't
>one of them, though there's no reason it wouldn't work just fine.
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>    Heck, it's even fun.
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Unfortunately, when I sent him the address for downloading 'audacity' he noticed that it was also available for MS Windows.

So, now I have find another ploy to get him into UBUNTU

alex