Audacity saves the day

[vinnywright]

So I was in my Spotify app on my Neon-/dev/stable install last night exploring new to me music and wanted to save/download some stuff for playing off line on a mp3 device I have .

if you pay for a premium Spotify acct. you can download play lists for this purpose .

however it appears that the DL,d music is DRM encrypted and can only be played back through a Spotify app ,,, which my player will not do .

well no mater Audacity will record whatever is playing on your sound system so it was just a mater of playing/listening to the songs wile recording and exporting them as mp3

just saying where theirs a will theirs a way ... and how nice Audacity can be even for simple things like this .

VINNY

[jglen490]

Yes it does! I have some tapes with tunes that I want to keep and be able to play on portable devices. Yes, one can still find small cassette players, but why not convert to mp3 or flac or something and play them all one unit. And, yes, you could record them ALL to cassette, but it's not that good going from a digital source to an analog medium. I also have some old vinyl albums - same deal.

The downside is that it's a real time recording process and takes more time than ripping or file conversion. But that's O.K., it's the result that counts!

[woodsmoke]

Vinny...

w/o gong back to #! YEAH MY MAN!!

woodwaaayyyytooooldsmoke

[dibl]

BIG audacity fan here. A few years back, I rigged up a nice turntable and a stereo receiver with a "Y" RCA-to-3.5mm pin cable and digitized my collection of about 200 LPA vinyl albums, plus my father's collection of 78 RPM shellac records from the 1930s and 1940s. I used every de-clicking, de-noising, levelling, and gap editing tool in audacity, and now have a very nice collection of music on my server. Plus, you can make the slickest ringtones for your phone with audacity, cutting out the big instrumental sections of things like Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Lucky Man". A really great Linux package!

[woodsmoke]

OMG!!! talk about spinning platters in an FM station around the hour of midnight!! GOOD TIMES...the girls were cruising outside the station...lol...

woodJEALOUSTHATYOUREMEMBERsmoke!!!

[dibl]

woodJEALOUSTHATYOUREMEMBERsmoke!!!

LOL. Woody, do you remember "Cerezo Rosa" by Perez Prado? Also known as "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White". I grabbed the first 15 seconds for a ringtone. i get some comments when my phone rings!

[woodsmoke]

lol you are SUCH A ROMANTIC!! rather like ...New York Wine and Tennesee Wine!! lol...

you old ROMANTIC YOU!! lol

woodhicsmoke

[dibl]

[QUOTE=woodsmoke;410122]lol you are SUCH A ROMANTIC!! /QUOTE]

Nah, that's not romantic. Romantic is Madeleine Grey's "Songs of the Auvergne" from 1930, sung in occitan. Available on 78 RPM shellac, kinda.

[woodsmoke]

aaahhh shelac...seldom had the opportunity to hear it... sadsmoke

[vinnywright]

BIG audacity fan here. A few years back, I rigged up a nice turntable and a stereo receiver with a "Y" RCA-to-3.5mm pin cable and digitized my collection of about 200 LPA vinyl albums, plus my father's collection of 78 RPM shellac records from the 1930s and 1940s. I used every de-clicking, de-noising, levelling, and gap editing tool in audacity, and now have a very nice collection of music on my server. Plus, you can make the slickest ringtones for your phone with audacity, cutting out the big instrumental sections of things like Emerson, Lake and Palmer's "Lucky Man". A really great Linux package!

Awesome ,,,,,,,I had lots of LP's at one time ,,,through the years they have ALL disappeared in the subsequent moves from hear to there

VINNY

[jglen490]

Understand that Vinny!! I've lost at least as many vinyl albums as I now have left - mostly to "friends", sadly. But still have a lot of LPs left to transfer, and - as dibl noted - a lot of cleanups. The cassettes weren't bad, mostly just hiss. The "pop" at the end of a side and transitions between songs just end up on the "cutting room floor".

[jlittle]

I find myself unusual in that I like computers to communicate with me with sound, especially if I make a mistake typing and the computer knows it's wrong. In this case most computer sounds are far too long, I want a sound as quick as my fingers.

Audacity to the rescue, I cut a cowbell sound down to a tenth of a second, years ago now. Love it.

[vinnywright]

I find myself unusual in that I like computers to communicate with me with sound, especially if I make a mistake typing and the computer knows it's wrong. In this case most computer sounds are far too long, I want a sound as quick as my fingers.

Audacity to the rescue, I cut a cowbell sound down to a tenth of a second, years ago now. Love it.

O ,,, nice ,,that's a good one as well .

VINNY

[Bings]

Here's a recording of jlittle using the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mft-uQ59yM

[vinnywright]

Here's a recording of jlittle using the computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mft-uQ59yM

LMFAO ,,,,,,,,,,thats a but more than a tenth of a second however ,,,,,,,,or maybe thats the combined sounds of all the keys he's taping ,,,,,ROTFLMFAO

VINNY