[NTLUG:Discuss] linux and recordings

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First, some product pushing..;D   Carla Schroder's book "The Book of 
Audacity" goes into a lot of detail on Audacity, including ripping vinyl 
(making CD's, mp3's etc from your old record albums), recording from a 
concert hall and more. She uses plain English, so there isn't a lot of 
techie to bog down the non-tech readers that is part of her audience in 
the book.  I know the book well since I did the tech review while she 
wrote it (hence the plug).

Regardless, it goes into deep detail on how record, how to edit, how to 
use special effects, choice of file encoding types (wav, flac, ogg, mp3, 
etc) and practical uses i.e. web casting, pod casting, professional 
sound editing and mixing, ripping vinyl, reel, cassette and 8-track and 
more. It's written for techie to musician to school teacher.

Once you have the audio recorded into some sound file of your 
preference, you can then burn a disk. k3b will burn from mp3, flac, wav 
and ogg. Just pick "New Audio CD Project" and then click your file or 
drag and drop. When you click "burn", a popup will show up and you 
should pick "Advanced" and normalize the volume. This will set the sound 
level of all of the audio to the same levels so you don't have a very 
soft quiet track followed by something that blows your eardrums.

Alvin

Fred James wrote:
> All
> These are amateur home recordings so we are not talking about 
> copyrights or licensing issues, OK?
> We are talking about audio only
> What might be the simplest way to made audio CD's from analog tape 
> recordings?
>
> And, oh yes, all the computers in this house are Linux, so MS and Mac 
> solutions will be discarded ... sorry ... no offense intended ... it 
> is just a fact.
> Thanks
> Regards
> Fred James
>
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