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I became really involved with this site when I started helping out cleaning up after spam attacks. Not being that well knowledgeable about the SW itself, I at least try to contribute by performing some minor "webmaster" chores, like e.g. cleaning up little editing mistakes and pruning redirect links. | I became really involved with this site when I started helping out cleaning up after spam attacks. Not being that well knowledgeable about the SW itself, I at least try to contribute by performing some minor "webmaster" chores, like e.g. cleaning up little editing mistakes and pruning redirect links. | ||
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+ | == My LP to mp3/CD workflow == | ||
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+ | If anyone is interested, this is my workflow (not necessarily optimized): | ||
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+ | * Record and save as WAV. | ||
+ | * If necessary, fix any spikes. | ||
+ | * Remove noise with the special {{menu|Noise Removal...}} filter ("training" it on any empty part approximatley halfway through the LP side). I don't want be too aggressive, as I think leaving a little noise is better than limiting the range or even introducing filtering artifacts. | ||
+ | * Remove rumble, with one or two passes with the {{menu|High Pass Filter...}}, with cut off frequency set to 25Hz or something similar. | ||
+ | * {{menu|Normalize...}}. | ||
+ | * Trim the ends. I usually leave two seconds before and after music. | ||
+ | * Set labels. I usually set the label two seconds before each track begins. | ||
+ | * {{menu|Export Multiple...}} as mp3. I set the conversion for 192 kbit/s, which I can not distinguish from WAV. (At his point, after verifying the quality of the conversion, I actually delete the WAV file, as it is too bulky to keep around.) | ||
+ | * Now I either use these as is in my mp3 player, or use a CD burning program to make an audio CD of them. | ||
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+ | The drawback with this scheme is that it's not fast. It will take me 20 - 30 minutes per LP side. | ||
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+ | '''''Note:''' In this text I used the [[template:menu]] like this:'' <code><nowiki>{{</nowiki>menu|''menu-text''<nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> '',giving'' {{menu|menu-text}}'', to emphasize the menu choices. If you enter edit mode (without saving, please!) you see how it was done.'' |
Revision as of 20:21, 11 July 2007
I found Audacity when I started transferring my old vinyl LP:s to CD. After a while I also found this site, the Audacity Wiki.
I became really involved with this site when I started helping out cleaning up after spam attacks. Not being that well knowledgeable about the SW itself, I at least try to contribute by performing some minor "webmaster" chores, like e.g. cleaning up little editing mistakes and pruning redirect links.
My LP to mp3/CD workflow
If anyone is interested, this is my workflow (not necessarily optimized):
- Record and save as WAV.
- If necessary, fix any spikes.
- Remove noise with the special filter ("training" it on any empty part approximatley halfway through the LP side). I don't want be too aggressive, as I think leaving a little noise is better than limiting the range or even introducing filtering artifacts.
- Remove rumble, with one or two passes with the , with cut off frequency set to 25Hz or something similar.
- .
- Trim the ends. I usually leave two seconds before and after music.
- Set labels. I usually set the label two seconds before each track begins.
- as mp3. I set the conversion for 192 kbit/s, which I can not distinguish from WAV. (At his point, after verifying the quality of the conversion, I actually delete the WAV file, as it is too bulky to keep around.)
- Now I either use these as is in my mp3 player, or use a CD burning program to make an audio CD of them.
The drawback with this scheme is that it's not fast. It will take me 20 - 30 minutes per LP side.
Note: In this text I used the template:menu like this: {{menu|menu-text}}
,giving , to emphasize the menu choices. If you enter edit mode (without saving, please!) you see how it was done.