Play wav files from serial input

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Jan 12 16:25:01 EST 2005


On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 04:16:56PM -0500, Bill Freeman wrote:
> Jeff Kinz writes:
> ...
>  > Any PII from 200-600 MHz will rip a CD at about 1:1 music time to rip
>  > time ratio. If you have a large (25+ years collection) it will take 
>  > 'forever' to convert it.
>  >
>  > On the other hand, any recent vintage  machine w/a 1GHz or better 
>  > will rip a 1 hour cd in approx 15 minutes. :-)  Faster is faster
>  > obviously.  
> 
> 	Oh, yee holder of recent music formats.  Ripping a CD is
> child's play.  An all digital operation, it doesn't even require a
> sound card.  My LPs, 45s, and 78s won't fit in the CD drive, however.
> 
> 	Digitizing from an analog source is generally a realtime only
> operation.  You might think that you could save some time by playing
> the LPs at 45 and setting the sampling rate a 1.35 times the desired
> rate, but then the equalization filter in the phono pre-amp wouldn't
> match the pre-emphasis on the record.

What software are you using for click/pop and normalization?  I was using
a combination of gwc and audacity(?), but it didn't seem to catch everything
and I couldn't figure out how to remove a single click.

Had to go back to Windows and use Cool Edit 2000 (now Adobe Audition).

-Mark
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