Recording your phonograph records digitally (was: Play wav files from serial input)

[Tom Buskey]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 16:06:05 -0500, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> Charles Farinella writes:
>  > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 15:11, Bill Freeman wrote:
>  >
>  > > (I'd been happily converting records to digital until
>  > > my laptop died last year.)
>  >
>  > I've been wanting to do that for awhile, but haven't been able to
>  > motivate myself enough to figure out how.  Tips?  Brief rundown?

I''ve recorded each side of the album into a WAV file.  The I've used
grammofile (http://panic.et.tudelft.nl/~costar/gramofile/) to do the
rest.

Grammofile will:
     Filter the pops & skips
     Break the album up into individudual tracks (mostly)

Grammofile can also record the initial WAV as well.  When I was doing
it, I had a solaris box & couldn't get it to do that.

It's all command line & there's a windows version.  I think it's been
superceeded by other noise cleanup tools.

For adjusting volumes, there's normalize (or is that what the process
is called?).

Good tips on using sox too.

http://www.xena.uklinux.net/Linux/audio.html has some good info also.