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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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