[SATLUG] basic linux audio editor

[phrostie]

i used Krecord and audacity.
audacity has some really nice noise filters.
hope that helps

On Sat November 27 2004 03:00 am, Donn D. wrote:
> 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...
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