How to convert audio cassettes to mp3
How to convert audio cassettes to mp3
I have some audio cassettes (mostly voice, but some music) I'd like to convert to .mp3 files with Puppy. I've never actually done this, but it seems feasible enough.
The basic idea I have is to use a jack and plug the cassette player's output to the sound card input jack.
Could anyone explain by what procedure and soffware I'd need to capture and edit the sound files?
I think by the time this thread is finished we will have the material to make a good How-To.
The basic idea I have is to use a jack and plug the cassette player's output to the sound card input jack.
Could anyone explain by what procedure and soffware I'd need to capture and edit the sound files?
I think by the time this thread is finished we will have the material to make a good How-To.
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Here's a post I made about ripping CDs and converting them to mp3. It probably won't do you much good, but who knows?
Don't forget to activate the appropriate channel in xtmix and turn up the volume. (Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right of your screen to open xtmix.)
Don't forget to activate the appropriate channel in xtmix and turn up the volume. (Double click on the speaker icon in the lower right of your screen to open xtmix.)
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Sound Audacity
I have found the XS sound editor to be very good. Audacity is a great program and we should have that as a dot pup - not sure how big it is. Once you are recording (getting an input, you can "save as" MP3)
Strangely enough the most difficult thing (when I did it with Audacity on Windows) was getting the right cable from the cassette player to the sound card - I would start there. Then try XS.
Good luck and keep us informed
Strangely enough the most difficult thing (when I did it with Audacity on Windows) was getting the right cable from the cassette player to the sound card - I would start there. Then try XS.
Good luck and keep us informed
Re: Sound Audacity
Use the line out/line in, if available, rather than the mic input. Line out is the output of the preamplifier and should generally work better for you.Lobster wrote:<snip>
Strangely enough the most difficult thing (when I did it with Audacity on Windows) was getting the right cable from the cassette player to the sound card - I would start there. Then try XS.
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14.9 MB by my measurements. But it looks like Audacity is the way to go. I didn't install it inside Puppy, rather in a directory on a partition with a link to it.Audacity is quite large (by puppy standards), over 1M, and may require some libraries that are not included in puppy, which would add even more space.
Thanks for the tips, I'll let you know.
BTW Puppy has a commandline utility called recwav which looks like it should be able to capture /dev/dsp input.
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wavrec from script
Tux has his own Google search engine stored under a pile of fish here:
http://www.google.com/linux
Using that found this about wavrev
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l18/lesson18b.htm
now I can get both these commands running from the command line but not from a script
not sure why . . .
. . . probably something obvious - it usually is - has anyone else tried running this from a script
http://www.google.com/linux
Using that found this about wavrev
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/l18/lesson18b.htm
now I can get both these commands running from the command line but not from a script
not sure why . . .
. . . probably something obvious - it usually is - has anyone else tried running this from a script
I read something about wavrec and thought I'd check and see if it was installed, before I downloaded and installed it.Flash wrote:Yesss, thanks. Wavrec brings something up in rxvt, but not much to go on. There is nothing about it in the Puppy Help files. How did you know it was there? What other undocumented programs are in Puppy?
Maybe wavrec and others small utilities get installed as support files with other packages like Xripper, Gcombust, or XS sound editor or ??.
wavrec --help tells you pretty much out to use it.
Good thinking!Bruce B wrote:<snip>
I read something about wavrec and thought I'd check and see if it was installed, before I downloaded and installed it.
Would that be one of those dependency things, or is that different?Maybe wavrec and other small utilities get installed as support files with other packages like Xripper, Gcombust, or XS sound editor or ??.
Thanks!wavrec --help tells you pretty much how to use it.
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XS should do the job without any trouble.
XS can save to any file format supported by the Snack library, which includes MP3.
There are some plugins for XS, that are supposed to be loaded at startup, except that XS couldn't find them -- I have fixed that for Pup 1.0.4.
The plugins are in 1.0.3, in /usr/lib/snack/ I think, so XS can load them -- there's a plugin loading thing in the menu.
If you just want to record audio cassettes, Audacity is an overkill.
...except, if it has some kind of hiss-reduction/background-noise-reduction capability, that would be useful, but perhaps that would be too much to ask of Audacity.
XS can save to any file format supported by the Snack library, which includes MP3.
There are some plugins for XS, that are supposed to be loaded at startup, except that XS couldn't find them -- I have fixed that for Pup 1.0.4.
The plugins are in 1.0.3, in /usr/lib/snack/ I think, so XS can load them -- there's a plugin loading thing in the menu.
If you just want to record audio cassettes, Audacity is an overkill.
...except, if it has some kind of hiss-reduction/background-noise-reduction capability, that would be useful, but perhaps that would be too much to ask of Audacity.
Yes indeed:Ian wrote:Has anybody tried ripperX.
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?p=3709#3709
But not for recording from line-in; only for ripping tracks from CDs (and converting them to mp3.)
I didn't know you could use it for recording. I'm not in Puppy right now so I can't check.