Ralph, Great to hear your interested in getting your stuff committed to digital format. Ogg Vorbis is an excellent ditigal format to use for this. It is free open source and better than MP3 for quality. After looking over Sound Recorder, I agree that it is a nice gui that makes sense quickly. It will record a .wav file so you can use GRip or K3B to turn the .wav files into OggVorgis encoded files. Those you can burn on a CD. You will want to make some test runs with the cassette player's line output hooked into the line input on your sound card. I haven't done this yet but plan to soon so I'd love to hear about how it goes. A regular CD .wav file for one 3-5 minute song equals about 40-60MB in file size on your hard disk. So, you'll record not at 48KHz but maybe at 8KHz or 16KHz in mono most likely since this is someone speaking and not music. If someone sings special music you might want to record that separately at a higher bit rate of 48KHz in stereo. Alot depends on the quality of your source. An old hissy sound cassette tape won't be helped by a high bit rate. Once you get the .wav file recorded the way you like, then you can have GRip or K3B encode the .wav file into ogg format. GRip and K3B seem to both be able to organize the files under a master directory by info you can control. If your a perfectionist and want to get rid of scratches and noise or learn more, then you can go to http://sound.condorow.net which is the Linux-Sound and Music website. There is alot of info there! Dow Ralph De Witt wrote:

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Hi: I know nothing about Multimedia, except how to play/listen to cd's through KsCD. I have some tapes of lectures, religious services, etc. that I would like to capture to my hard drive and then using K3B burn to cd's. I would like to know if there is any software preferrable GUI based that will capture the output of the cassette player that is hooked up to the sound input connection and save to the hard drive? Also what would be the best format to store the files in? Thanks for your help. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 7 days 14 hours 17 minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)

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