[Linux4christians] Audio tape to MP3 ideas

[Josiah Ritchie]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:56 AM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:

>
>  I'm looking at taking a 10 year catalogue of Sermons on Cassette Tape
> and turning them into .mp3 files and archiving them on DVD's.  The OS'
> involved will be both Linux and Windows (various flavours according to
> the volunteers involved), and I was sort of figuring Audacity as the
> common software of choice for all involved.  So my first question is,
> has anyone dubbed from a tape source to an .mp3 file, and can you offer
> some pointers?  Second is setting up a digital catalogue, I had been
> thinking Tellico, but it is too strongly tied to KDE, and the office
> system _will_ remain Windows.  I'd like a simple app that a 50+
> non-power user can be comfortable getting info from, and that the
> non-techs can feed new info into that will work under both Windows and
> Linux.  The idea is to have the db of info on one box, but used by both
> the office and the sound techs.
>

This cassette drive for the computer works fine and simplifies life since
the software is aware of the tape's stop and start points, even can handle
recording both sides if I recall correctly.

A friend and I used it to yank off a bunch of old chapel services at the
college I used to work at. He'd pull the info off the tape and name them in
a predictable way. I then wrote a shell script in Linux to take the name and
apply it to the actually ID3 tags of the MP3. If you're interested in the
script, I could probably dig it out of somewhere, maybe. :-)

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/7a8d/

I'm sure you could find the drive elsewhere for a better price, think geek
is just the last place I remembered seeing it.

JSR/



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