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

[Colin Law]

Have a look at Audacity.  I have found it excellent.  Available from the
Ubuntu repositories though I am not sure which one.  Also available for
Windows if that is of any interest.

Colin

2009/5/30 Graham Todd <grahamtodd2 at googlemail.com>

> On Sun, 24 May 2009 09:53:47 -0500
> Afan Pasalic <afan at afan.net> wrote:
>
> > 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?
> [snipped]
>
> Exactly the same position as me (although my audio collection on tape
> consists of recordings that go back to the fifties....)!
>
> First, if you have any stereo recordings, make sure that you lead (from
> the headphone socket?) carries a stereo signal.  These days, most do,
> but there are still a few mono leads around......
>
> For the software, I use Gramofile.  Its a command-line application,
> though there is a Perl interface, but its pretty easy to use.  There is
> a Debian binary of the latest version in the repositories, but its
> also in the universe (multimedia) Ubuntu repos: either way, its easy to
> compile from source.
>
> Gramofile was written to transpose vinyl LPs on to computer.  You can
> record a whole side and it will divide it into tracks and even remove
> the hiss and crackle distortion.  By trial and error, I've found that
> it will do the same for tapes of records.
>
> The output will be in cdda .wav format, which means you can convert it
> to another format easily (say .mp3 or .ogg) or you can burn tracks to
> CD for them to be played directly.  If you have cdparanoia and lame
> installed, try this:
>
> cdparanoia $TRACK-NUMBER && lame cdda.wav $TRACK-NAME.mp3 && rm -f
> cdda.wav
>
> change $TRACK-NUMBER for the number of the track on the cd and
> $TRACK-NAME, change that for the name you want to give the track. If
> the name has spaces you'll get an error so "put quotes" around it or
> give it a one word name and rename it when it's done.
>
> [I found this in a post by Andrew Benton in the LinuxQuestions.org
> site. Kudos Andrew!]
>
> There may be other applications around but Gramofile is a must-have
> application for me despite the fact that it has moved on but the
> current developer has said he hasn't the time to maintain it.
>
> You can find Gramofile at its home page at
> http://www.opensourcepartners.nl/~costar/gramofile/<http://www.opensourcepartners.nl/%7Ecostar/gramofile/>
>
> or by going to the Debian binary at:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gramofile
>
> or for the time being in the Ubuntu repos......
>
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> Graham Todd
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