[wellylug] Saving line-in input to mp3

[Rob Stockley]

On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 11:51, Richard Hector wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 11:04:41AM +1200, Jethro Carr wrote:
> > I want to record music from a tape, which is plugged into the microphone
> > socket, to mp3.
> > What good programs are there, which can do this?
> 
> audacity has quite a good reputation, I think. I haven't done enough testing
> to do it justice, as I've never been happy with the rest of my sound setup.
> 
> Richard

IMHO to record live to mp3 you need either a very fast cpu or hardware
dedicated to the task. In the past I've used the console 'record'
utility to capture the audio as a .wav file then used 'bladeenc' to
encode it to .mp3. HTH

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