Re: [orca-list] editing recordings with orca

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I just use an audio cable from my cassette recorder to the microphone or 
line-in jack on my linux PC. I don't know about acquiring a cassette 
player these days. I'd imagine you could ask around and someone would be 
willing to give you one. I'll admit it was a problem for me. I have like 
5 of them but they are all defective in one way or another. Even so, I 
just ripped a cassette recording of Super Bowl I, Packers versus Chiefs, 
a couple of weeks ago. I was using a cassette player designed to play 
those cassettes from the Library of Congress talking books program and I 
could not get the speed right. It is probably recorded at something like 
97% of the correct speed so everyone's voice is a little deeper than it 
should be. But the linux part was easy.










On 04/20/2017 08:56 AM, Al Sten-Clanton wrote:
> This sounds really cool (pun almost unavoidable).  Are there cassette
> recorders I can hook up to my box via usb, or an adapter for the
> purpose?  I guess I should check whether there are decent cassette
> recorders for sale anymore.
>
> Al
>
> On 04/20/2017 09:42 AM, 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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