Linux for vinyl-to-CD

[jim]

I did this once and I'm thinking about doing some more.  This was a long time 
ago and I don't remember what I used to do it, but I recorded the audio from 
cassettes and used some program to split the tracks automatically and then 
used cdroast or something to burn the cd's.  The short answer is yes it's 
possible and that's about all I can tell you right now.  I'd be interested to 
hear how you progress.

Jim

On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:51 pm, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> I'd love to try Linux for digitizing my vinyl recordings.
>
> Right now, I've stalled out on the project.  I bought the current version
> of Roxio's CD Creator (5.x?) so I would get the "Spin Doctor" software
> Adaptec bought  and incorporated.  I actually got it to work once, in spite
> of a REALLY HORRIBLE UI.  Roxio has tried to emphasize a "theme" design for
> the software, making it look like some sort of physical gadget instead of
> having separate programs and/or logical menus.  Spin Doctor includes
> filters for removing artifacts from tape and vinyl recordings that were
> highly praised when the software first came out.  It also has the ability
> to detect the gaps between songs on an album and split a single recording
> of a whole side into the correct tracks.
>
> Like I said, I got it to work exactly once.  Working on Elton John's
> "Madman Across the Water", it split the five tracks on one side into about
> 37 tracks, failed to record, auto-ended the recording as soon as the first
> track started and so on.  Wasted several days on it.
>
> I've looked briefly at using Mandrake to do this project, but while I do
> anticipate that I'll need to work with several different programs and layer
> them together to get the recording done, I haven't been able to figure out
> where to start.
>
> Anybody else doing this on their home PC's?  Is it doable with Linux? 
> You'd need something that recorded sound-card-line-in to some audio format,
> then another program that would allow you to visually cut-and-splice tracks
> so you could record an album side then find the gaps and split it into
> tracks. Burning .WAV or .MP3 files to CD with Linux is trivial - all the
> cdrecord interfaces seem reasonably functional at least.
>
> If Linux isn't ready for this yet, I'd appreciate advice on software for
> that "other operating system".  (Oh, and I already know that Macs work
> great at this, and that I can afford a new car easier than the hardware and
> software to do it on a Mac.)
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