Declutter Your Desk. Ardour | the new digital audio workstation. Ripping Vinyl with GNU/Linux. Recently my Dad started sending me pieces of his vinyl record collection. He has a ton of good stuff from Led Zeppelin to The Beatles and everything in between from 65'-75'. My plan is to archive all the albums to my computer and do some other fancy things with them like converting each track to an MP3, allowing for easy distribution via CD or over the Internet.
Below is the process that I used after doing many hours of research on and off line. 1. The EquipmentIn high school I was able to acquire some relatively decent vintage stereo equipment before the prices shot up on eBay in recent years. Here's the list of hardware I used: 2. Audacity - Recording and Track SplittingNormalize-audio - Sound Level EqualizationEasyTag - MP3 Tagging (ID3v2)LAME - MP3 EncodingFLAC - Archival Lossless Encoding3. In Audacity I play the record watch the levels when it peaks, moving the record level slider correctly so it's right around 0 since I don't want it to be too loud and end up distorted. 4. 5.
Vinyl Music Processing under Linux. Pure Vinyl™ RecordMyDesktop Homepage.