From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:19:24 +0000 Subject: Re: maudio audiophile 24/96 Message-Id: <440888AC.5080105@tmr.com> List-Id: References: <43E42B45.2060301@growthmodels.com> In-Reply-To: <43E42B45.2060301@growthmodels.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org 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 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sound" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979