First get a working tape player! Its amazing how many non-working players
we have!, then
yum install audacity
installs the absolutely awesome Audacity audio studio. It can do all sorts
of things: multichannel stuff, effects, track alignment, generate sound,
fades, reverse, you name it.
As a complete pleb, I use it to record, cut out the bits I don't want,
export to WAV / Ogg/ MP3.
Hints:
Edit|Preferences Audio I/O tab: DESELECT Software Audio play through: it
stuffs it up completely. Rely on the Hardware play thrugh.
Bloody difficult to get levels right:
On Tape push it fairly high up, about 75% then Microphone input and Front
output also about 75%. That seems to get it. All else causes distortion on
playback!!!! Wow.
REMEMBER: Turn off all cell phones including the internet connection!!!!!
Da Kah Daa, Da Kah Daa etc!!
MUST Use Stereo under Audio I/O, and 16-bit for a CD. No other format will
be accepted by
cdrecord -pad *.wav
even if the track is mono.
Once the track has been recorded, chop it up into bits if desired and save
as seperate .WAV files. Can also export as ogg or mp3, obviously.
cdrecord does the rest!
Archive the .wav files on a DVD. They are rather large, but are
primary sources, which Audacity can process, ie can be cut up and Ogged
etc.