Linux for vinyl-to-CD

[Rusty]

I am very interested in being able to do this myself. I just haven't
had the time or energy to devote to it lately (divorce, move, being
laid off, looking for a job. etc...nothing too major - UGH!). However,
I may have some time in the near future, and would be willing to use
WHATEVER OS faciltates the operation. Please let me know how you
progress, and if you are looking for assistance/input/etc. I will have
some systems and space available, I think.

Rusty

--- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at opus1.com> 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.)
> 
> 
> 
> majordomo at kclug.org

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