Tape to CD

[Ted Potter]

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 10:40, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:05, Ted Potter wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 09:40, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> > > I've got an audio tape and I thought it would be great to copy it
> > > to a CD to listen to in my car.  I'ts not a nusic tape but an
> > > instructional tape and by having it on the CD I could go directly
> > > to the parts I wanted if I broke it down into different segments
> > > (or so I think).
> > >
> > > So, I pulgged my tape player into my computer and started - sound
> > > is coming out of my computers speakers but I can't get any
> > > programs to record what I'm hearind (I'm running Red Hat 9 and
> > > trying to use "Sound Recorder" as it's the only one I could
> > > find).
> > >
> > > Then I started thinking about the process - once I have the files
> > > on my hard drive I'm not sure what to do from there.  I like
> > > using Gtoaster to make a CD but will I be able to make an Audio
> > > CD with Gtoaster that will play as I want it?
> > >
> > > Please be very basic with me as you can tell I'm confused already
> > > and I haven't even been able to anything copied to my hard drive
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > Thats interesting. I am in the exact same position and need to do
> > do exactly the same thing.
> >
> > A friend of mine uses a tape recorder with a lineout jack in to the
> > microphone jack on his soundcard, sadly he runs windows and jukebox to turn
> > that in to an mp3 file.
> >
> > Been looking for a solution myself.
> >
> > Ted
> >
> Look at KRec.
> Check out the manual for KRes, it points you towards experimenting with the 
> aRtS bundle, which KRec acts as a front-end for.
> It allows recording from any line-input.
> Then either manually stop/start the tape, and create a new file for each 
> section, or record the whole tape as a single file, then use one of the 
> available editors to split that file up into various sections.
> Convert the files to the right format, then run k3b, which allows you to 
> assemble audio tracks and burn them onto CD, complete with track info.
> If you use mp3 format, you can even run one of the id3 tagging programs to add 
> tags to each track so your CD player can pick up titles and display them ie 
> 'Chapter 1'

yep krecord is working at least with a microphone. Now I am trying with
some other audio devices....
krecord does not seem to mind that I am using gnome.





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