[SATLUG] basic linux audio editor

[Donn D.]

I am in the process of recording my entire LP collection to CD.  I am 
using a CD recording deck, a receiver, and my turntable.  When I get the 
resulting CD, it usually has to be "cleaned up".  For example, my CD 
recorder deck may have thought that 2 or 3 songs from the album were 
actually one long song (due to surface noise between songs).  Or on the 
other hand, sometimes when a track has a quiet part in it for 2 secs or 
more, my recorder deck thinks a new song is starting so it advances the 
track #.

None of this is a big deal.  What I do is stick the CD into my win2k 
box, start up CDex and split whatever I need to (extract partial 
tracks).  Now, I believe that grip probably does this also.  Also with 
CDex I can combine 2 songs.  Like my CD deck may  have considered Pink 
Floyd's DSOTM song as 2 or 3 songs due to quiet parts.  So in CDex I can 
highlight Audio Track 1 and 2 and 3 and have it recorded as one output 
track like it should be.  Then after I get everything the way it should 
be with CDex, I can burn a great CD with Nero.  I like Nero because I 
can edit tracks within it.  Such as fade ins & outs, and even trimming 
tracks (even though I already fixed that with CDex).  After seperating 
tracks with CDex I almost always need a few seconds fade-in or -out to 
make it sound nice.

I want to start doing all of this on my linux box (FC2).  My win2k box 
is really screwing up lately (occasional blue screen - fatal stops, and 
Nero many times crashes in the middle of a burn - "fatal error").  It 
just started screwing up a couple days ago - may be a hardware problem, 
I don't know.  But my main box is my FC2 box, so I don't really care.  I 
don't see that grip has any basic editing functionality.  I googled 
around a bit and found some talk of: gnusound, rezound, audacity, gnoise 
and glame.  I installed audacity, and also glame.  Both will probably do 
what I want (basic fade-ins and fade-outs) but they seem to be overkill 
- they look overly complicated for the simple things I want to do...

As mentioned above, I think I can replace CDex with grip (at least for 
extracting partial tracks)  but I don't know about combining 2 tracks 
into 1 track though.  So, I need a basic audio editor for linux.  Or 
I'll have to get into audacity and spend some time figuring it out...