Audio recording on Ubuntu from cassette player or any other sound source?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/5/24 Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net>:
> Hi,
> I got several audio cassettes/tapes with some my old stuff recorded in
> 70's. I want to transfer them to comp in mp3 format.
>
> What application will do the best?
>
> Thanks,
> Afan

I just want to add that I strongly recommend to avoid mp3 for tasts
like this. Old cassette recordings from the 70's probably contains a
lot of noise, and noise is something that lossy formats like MP3, OGG
Vorbis, WMA etcetera, can't handle well. The noise tend to confuse
those algorithms making it hard to create a well sounding file, unless
one of the absolutely highest bitrates is choosen.

I would rather recommend to use the FLAC format. It's lossless and it
supports tags and Ubuntu supports it by default. If you play your
files with SongBird you obtain gapless playback of your files.

FLAC involves some compression, but with no loss of audio quality at
all. On the other hand, the files can't be compress as much as with
those lossy formats. Compared to a WAV file (no compression) the
corresponding FLAC will often be somewhere between something like 30%
– 70% of the original size. It depends a lot of the kind of music. I
have noticed that my classical files use fewer bytes/minute than other
files.

But it's your choice of course, but don't be surprised if the sound
quality for the MP3 files are surprisingly poor.

Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg



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