[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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