[SATLUG] basic linux audio editor

[Jeremy Mann]

I second that. I use Audacity for all my audio editing needs.



On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:30:42 +0100, phrostie <pfrostie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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