[Cialug] Audio recording on Ubuntu from cassette player or any other sound source?

[David Champion]

Oh, one note on this: devices like tape decks, or CD players will output 
a "normal" output level, you can just use a RCA to 1/8" headphone jack 
adapter, and plug it right in to your PC's mic jack. If you're going to 
record from a turntable, you will probably need a pre-amp - you can 
either use an old stereo amp with Phono input (you can probably find one 
at a garage sale or thrift store, ebay, craigslist etc. cheap, since 
everyone is upgrading to surround sound) to pass the signal through, or 
I have a phono preamp I got from Radio Shack years ago that works for 
this. Or you can get one of the fancy new turntables with the USB jack 
on them... but that would be cheating.

-dc

David Champion wrote:
> I have used gramofile a little for tranferring vinyl 
> records to MP3.
>
> http://www.opensourcepartners.nl/~costar/gramofile/
>
> It's a bit clunky to use (console based), and you have to do some trial 
> and error before getting it to work very well. The thing I've had the most 
> trouble with is getting the mixer settings just right... could be 
> partially because I was experimenting with a machine with an utterly 
> craptastic Via audio chipset. I have another with the nVidia soundstorm 
> chip, which I plan on trying next time I have the motivation to do so.
>
> Also... you may end up having to use audacity to do some cleanup - and on 
> some albums I've tried, there's no pause between some of the songs (Led 
> Zeppelin Coda, for example), so the automatic track detection doesn't 
> work.
>
> -dc
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