Ripping music from tape is an absolute pain. Especially when the tape is live, so I can't use my automatic song-splitting software to split the side into tracks.
That's what I'm using... and it's much less painful than with anything else I tried.
Still sucks, though -- I'm used to using gramofile (gramophile? I can't remember...) in linux, which find the splits between tracks, cleans the "tape-player hiss" out of the track, if it's there, and balances the audio levels, more or less with one command.
With Audacity, I'm having to find the track boundries, split them manually, and if there are places where the tape was noisy, clean it up by hand. It's... not entirely perfect. Still, it's not bad.
I can't say, since it's part of a present for someone who may or may not be reading my LJ. Yours is next on the list, though -- I'll be starting it tonight! (I also wanted to be sure the tape deck and everything was still working before I put an irreplaceable tape into it... discovering halfway through a live Stan Rogers album that my cassette deck had developed an appetite for audio tape would be a bad thing.)
Sadly, no again... the tape is too badly damaged for my tape deck to deal with it. I found a place that'll probably be able to restore it and get it onto CD, but it'll cost: somewhere in the range of around $400-$500, probably.
One of these days I'll get around to sending a note to the former members of Gallowglass, asking if they would mind if I sell copies to make back my cost, then continue selling CDs and send them the money. Or even just the first. Sadly, it's not really economical unless I can get the cost down to somewhere in the $20-50 range per copy.
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Still sucks, though -- I'm used to using gramofile (gramophile? I can't remember...) in linux, which find the splits between tracks, cleans the "tape-player hiss" out of the track, if it's there, and balances the audio levels, more or less with one command.
With Audacity, I'm having to find the track boundries, split them manually, and if there are places where the tape was noisy, clean it up by hand. It's... not entirely perfect. Still, it's not bad.
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Gallowglass?
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One of these days I'll get around to sending a note to the former members of Gallowglass, asking if they would mind if I sell copies to make back my cost, then continue selling CDs and send them the money. Or even just the first. Sadly, it's not really economical unless I can get the cost down to somewhere in the $20-50 range per copy.
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