[CentOS] Coping music from tapes
Jean Figarella
jfigarella at vecna.com
Fri May 25 21:07:32 UTC 2007
boisvert.guy at videotron.ca wrote:
>
>
> ----- Message d'origine -----
> De: Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at freemail.gr>
> Date: Vendredi, Mai 25, 2007 3:12 pm
> Objet: [CentOS] Coping music from tapes
> À: centos at centos.org
>
> > OS: CentOS 5.0 x86.
> >
> > Hi, I have some old music tapes and a walkman, and want to move
> > the
> > music to mp3 format. So far I am thinking to use Audacity to
> > record the
> > music to wavs, and then do not know, somehow I will compress the
> > wavs to
> > mp3s as vbr 192 Kbps with something.
> >
> >
> > Has anyone done this? What app did you use for recording the
> > music from
> > the tapes and what app did you use to make it mp3? Unfortunately
> > my mp3
> > player doesn't support ogg vorbis, so this is not an option.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm a DJ and i still do it very often.
>
> I use Adobe Audition (Audacity will do too). I remove clicks and pops.
>
> Then i save my master in FLAC format using the FLAC plugin. I dunno
> about FLAC and Audacity but at least, you could save uncompressed and
> use the FLAC codec afterwards. It's always a good idea to save your
> master in FLAC (Lossless compression) so you can re-edit your files
> afterwards without starting from a lossy compressed file (MP3 is lossy,
> it degrades every time you save).
>
> After that, i generate the MP3 with LAME, piping FLAC decoder into the
> LAME MP3 codec.
>
> I use MP3 VBR, quality level 1.
>
> LAME is one of the best MP3 Compressor and is free (same for FLAC).
>
> As for the ID3 tags, i standardized with ID3 v2 and i don't use v1
> inside the same file (using to hearders inside the same MP3 is source of
> problem from time to time). There are a couple of good masstaggers so
> your could use that to save time.
>
> Finally, i use MP3Gain to adjust the gain of all my files to 90 db.
>
> Hope this helped.
>
> Guy Boisvert
>
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If I am not mistaken Audacity uses use the Lame encoder to do mp3. At
some point, not sure weather it was in windoze or Linux, I had to
install the codec myself.
And very true always have a master in a Lossless compression format.
That is very important.
Jean
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