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No Wave Out or Stereo Mix in Audacity stopping you from digitising all those old cassettes and vinyl records?

The solution is relatively simple and only has a small number of steps. This article is written on the basis of using Ubuntu 9.10 and Audacity 1.3.8 to create digital audio backups of all your older formats.

stevey.eu does not encourage or condone illegal activities involving copyrighted materials. This guide is written with the intent of helping people create digital backups of cassettes/records they already own.

Prerequisites

Ubuntu 9.10 (of course!)

Audacity

sudo apt-get install audacity

PulseAudio Volume Control

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

Once you have the above installed, we are good to go after a little setup.

Setting Up

Firstly, we will setup Audacity to use PulseAudio. After opening it, head to preferences via Edit > Preferences (or by hitting CTRL+P). We are looking for the section titled devices, it should be near the top in the left panel.

Here we need to change both devices from the preset of default to “pulse”.

Now, secondly to check everything is in order with PulseAudio we need to head to the Applications menu under Sound & Video open up PulseAudio Volume Control.

On the playback tab you will see a list of anything utilising audio playback currently. I suggest playing something such as a cassette you are planning to record to digital format, to test it is working. Much like the playback tab, the recording tab should show Audacity as we are using this to record whatever audio is being processed by our sound card.

Recording

I suggest here, pressing record in Audacity before playing your input, whether vinyl, cassette or anything else for that matter. You can always trim any extra silence out after recording. I also prefer personally to play the side of the cassette or record in its entirety then split it afterwards, as it is far less time consuming.

Conclusion

I am not going to sit here and write hundreds of words on how to use Audacity to edit your newly recorded backups, but I feel that in a few very short steps we have walked through how to use Audacity to make digital backups.



Original Source: http://www.stevey.eu/2010/03/creating-digital-audio-backups-using-audacity-and-pulseaudio/
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People often (yes, really) ask me which audio podcasts I listen to and which video ones I watch. I have recently rationalised my list as I migrated from iTunes on the Mac to gPodder on Ubuntu.

I thought now would be a good time to publish the list of what I subscribe to. I’ve attached an OPML file that was exported from gPodder (subscriptions -> export to OPML file). You can just import that OPML into your podcast client, or just open in a text editor and pluck out the interesting URLs and use those instead.

I don’t listen to every episode of every podcast, but usually I get around to most of them at some point. A couple of them might be unsuitable for minors, specifically the ones involving Richard Herring, and Answer Me This! The rest are pretty mainstream. They’re in all sorts of formats – mostly MP3 or M4V because the feeds came originally from when I was using iTunes.

Update: Thanks to Ellwyn I now have synchronised my podcast subscriptions to my.gpodder.org. Clicking the image below will take you to my subscriptions.

I’m interested to know if you have podcasts that you like and you think I might enjoy, let me know in the comments, or if you’re brave, post your OPML file. Make sure to remove any podcasts that you might have paid for, and that have username/passwords in the URL.



Original Source: http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/06/which-podcasts/
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Songbird is an open-source customizable music player that's under active development, its one of my favorite music players, check it out

The songbird team is working on creating a non-proprietary, cross platform, extensible tool that will help enable new ways to playback, manage, and discover music.


Features:

  • Media Importing

    Add media to Songbird by importing from your file system or iTunes.

  • Media Playback

    Songbird supports MP3, FLAC, and Vorbis on all platforms; WMA and WMA DRM on Windows; and AAC and Fairplay on Windows and Mac.

  • GStreamer

    Songbird now uses GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms.

  • Smart Playlists

    Create dynamic playlists that automatically update based on criteria you set.

  • Web Browser

    Songbird includes an integrated web browser with features like bookmarking, tabbed browsing, and more.

  • Cross Platform

    Songbird runs on Windows, Linux and Mac.

  • Multi-language Support

    Over 25 completed, community-contributed localizations and growing!

  • Automatic Updates

    Always stay up to date using Songbird's built-in automatic updates.

  • Setup Assistant

    Quickly setup Songbird for the first time.

  • Custom UI

    Make Songbird your own by choosing from dozens of different skins feathers.

  • Library Management

    Browse, organize, sort and search your media.

  • Developer Support

    Songbird is getting better everyday thanks to its open platform and growing developer community.

Currently In Beta:

  • Device Support

    Songbird's device support is limited. The Device Support wiki has additional details about what's supported. Apple iPhones, iPod Touch and Microsoft Zune devices are not yet supported.

  • Metadata Management

    Songbird supports reading from and writing metadata to many music file formats. We still need to support the ability to fetch additional metadata from popular lookup services.

  • Album Artwork

    Display the currently playing track's album art and write new artwork back to the file. We still need to support album art fetching.

  • Subscriptions

    Subscribe to music blogs and download music directly to your library. We're working on ways to improve this feature.

  • Performance & Stability

    Improving the performance and stability of Songbird is an ongoing focus. Each release we set aside dedicated cycles to ensure we're making progress.

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Original Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UbuntuUnleashed/~3/LpdchsoteMM/songbird-media-player.html