On Sun October 31 2004 8:26 pm, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I have a collection of good 400 C-60 audio cassettes (music, but also courses).
I would like to copy these cassettes to mp3 files on my SuSE machine. (I am just thinking of moving my house: compare the size / weight of 400 cassettes to a few DVDs ;-) )
Problems I would like to solve automagically:
Maximal length of recording should be the length of the cassette I am not planning to sit in front of the computer and listen all cassettes. To put a cassette into the player and record and after the expected recording time, I will come back to put in a new cassette. The recording should end after the length of the cassette automatically
Silent detection at the end It can happen that the tape is not full recorded. The silent end of the tape should be cut off automatically! (Only the end, not if in a course a silent time happened)
Is there any good way available?
BTW, I am looking for the same for (30 only!) VHS (PAL system) to transfer to DVD.
bye
Ronald
Audacity will record to mp3, wav and ogg. It has the configuration parameters you are looking for but I had mixed results using them. It would sometimes stop at the end of the tape, sometimes not. It is very easy to snip the silence at the beginning and end of the recording via the graphical output. I didn't mind doing that for about 40 tapes. 400 is another story. Stan