Re: [orca-list] editing recordings with orca

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt csir co za>]

I would just stay with .wav files.
You can always compress it later.
If i would compress it at all, I would use a lossless compression like 
flac.
Regards, Willem


On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, John G Heim wrote:

> I use arecord at the command line.
>
> export TIME=<length of recording>
> export FILE=<name of file to record to>
> arecord -q -f cd -d $TIME - | oggenc -Q - -o $FILE
>
> I believe you can probably pipe the output from arecord to lame to record in 
> mp3 format instead of ogg. I've never tried that though. Sox might be able to 
> do it as well. Ogg is better than mp3 but obviously, it's not as well 
> supported in MacOS and Windows.
>
>
> On 04/19/2017 11:06 PM, Don Raikes wrote:
> > Is there a good program on ubuntu or debian that I can use to
> > record/edit an audio recording?
> >
> >
> >
> > I am trying to copy an old (1978) audio cassette to a digital format.
> >
> > It doesn’t have to be in stereo because the original recording was only
> > in mono, but I want to know how best to transfer the recording and what
> > software works best with orca?
> >
> >
> >
> > Any tips on how best to accomplish this would be appreciated as well.
> >
> >
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
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