Converting tapes and records to cd

[Andre Mangan]

There are a number of tools available in Linux that will help you to commit
recorded music to CD.  The most important thing to remember here is that the
created CD be playable in various players such as in your stereo system and
in your car and the wav format covers that.

To record and edit use Audacity.  This very good program will let you edit
your recordings, create individual tracks, correct clipping, and remove
noise.  A comprehensive manual can be downloaded from the Audacity website.

Additional tools that you might consider are:  "easyMP3Gain" to equalise
recorded volumes if recordings have been taken from different sources and
"Avidemux" to separate (demultiplex) sound tracks from videos (such as
YouTube).  "Sound Converter" may also be of some use.

When you create a music CD using Brasero, for example, all your recorded
tracks will be converted automatically to the wav format the moment you
specify that you want to create a music CD.

No CD would be complete without a label and its creation depends very much
on your hardware.  Some printers will print to CD.  Alternatively you can
use LightScribe which is available for Linux but requires a LightScribe CD
Burner and LightScribe CDs (or DVDs).

Cheers,
Andre



On 18 August 2011 19:27, Peter Goggin <petergoggin at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I have a usb record/tape player. Is there any software available for ubuntu
> which will enable me to convert tapes and record to .wav files prior to
> creating audio cd's?
>
> Regards
>
>
> Peter Goggin
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