On Sunday 25 June 2006 17:00, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I want to transfer some music from tape to cd, so will have to use > > lin-in and record, then split. Is there any package that can split > > the stream into tracks simply, as in grip, or will I have to record > > one long stream and use audacity to hunt for the gaps? > > I've done this before and used gcdmaster to mark the gaps in the wav > file I recorded for each side of the vinyl I was converting. It > worked out fairly well. > > I've also gone from vinyl to mp3 (::cough:: I mean ogg, heave forfend > I'd ignore the mp3 patent). For that I didn't have any need to create > a CD so I used a wav editor to split the files and then I wrote a > little perl script that would use a cddb file to convert, tag, and > rename the wav files to mpg^H^H^Hogg. > > I've read about some other programs that can help automate this, but > haven't used any of them (and don't have links handy). Here's one > that's linked from linux-sound.org: > > http://www.stlouis-shopper.com/~jtjsoftware/software.html > > Google will probably turn up some others. > AudioTranscriber does look quite good, although it mentions RH7, and the web page was last updated in 2004. In the past I converted some vinyl, but I made separate recordings for every track. It's a lengthy business, doing it that way, especially as it's all to easy to get false starts :-) I could do the same again, but if there's a better way I should look for it. Thanks for the suggestions Anne
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