Re: maudio audiophile 24/96

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Heitzso wrote:

> I'm trying to convert my collection of cassette tapes over to CDs.
> I purchased two nice used tape decks off ebay.  The nicer of the
> two is connected to my computer, which is a recent model
> athlon64 3000+ w/ 1G RAM.
>
> Sound was very rough captured with 'arecord' through the
> computer's built in sound chip so I bought a
> maudio audiophile 24/96 from newegg to get a clean dac.
> But my common Linux mixers don't know what to do with the
> maudio and I feel I may have purchased a fancier audio card
> than I know what to do with (most mixers certainly don't know
> what to do with it).

I don't see an answer, so I'll note that I have done many tapes and 
records by using "rec" from the "sox" package, using CD sampling rates, 
and saving each side of a tape or record to a single wav file. Then I 
use "audacity" to find and split off each track, do any required 
processing, always normalize the volume, and save.

At that point I can use lame for mp2, create ogg files, write .inf files 
to burn CD (usually won't fit), and I personally run shorten on the 
original wav files (lossless compression) and save them to DVD in batches.

My experience has been that I am able to get most pleasing results doing 
the best rip I can without mixing, then editing the output as needed, 
and being able to go back to the first rip if I don't like the ouput, or 
find a better tool.

>
> kmix does a reasonable job of picking up and labeling the
> inputs/outputs/controls.  But I don't know how to use them.
>
> I'd appreciate being pointed to:
>    email list
>    forum/irc
>    doc url
> that might help me out.
> THANKS
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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