[CLUE-Tech] RealPLayer versus MP3, WAV or others

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 15 May 2002 00:18:44 -0500 (CDT)
"Michael J. Hammel" <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:

> Thus spoke Kevin Cullis
> > I was wondering who knows how best to "record" off of cassette tape
> > (or record ONTO a CD) and trasfer onto a hard drive to be convert the
> > file to MP3s or WAVs?  How difficult and how much time would it take
> > to hook this thing up?  Is there free software available?
> 
> Just get a cable with female adapters on both ends to hook the tape
> player into the mic of your sound card, then do something like
> 
> 	cat /dev/audio > /tmp/file.au

I'd hook up to one of the line-in jacks, not the mic. Every sound card
I've seen has at least one line-level input jack - some have more than
one. A cassette deck output is line-level, which isn't the same as
microphone, IIRC.

I've used grecord successfully to record from my turntable (through a
preamp). Output to WAV file from grecord, then use lame to make MP3s.

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