[GRLUG] audio questions.

[Topher]

On May 28, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, PC.  Running Kubuntu 11.04
> 
> And yes, recording from a radio station,
> for example. Or it might be the audio
> portion of a YouTube piece.
> 
> I'll give audacity a try.  Thanks.

Audacity is indeed the best for editing.  For grabbing audio from an app I think you want "jack".  It's really excellent at using whatever you throw at it as an input, as opposed to alas or OSS which wants audio in or your cdrom drive as their only inputs.


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> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, John-Thomas Richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:39:40PM -0400, Bob Kline wrote:
> > I'm looking for suggestions for two audio related items:
> >
> > *  An audio editor, so that I can input, say, an MP3 or OGG file and
> > just keep the parts I want.
> 
> Audacity.  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
> 
> > *  A way to store the audio out signal  to a file, no matter what the
> > source - i.e., as long as it's headed for the audio out (green)
> > connector, I want to be able to copy that signal to a file.
> 
> Um...huh?  Is the source on your computer?  Something like recording a
> song from an internet "radio" station?  Audacity is a very powerful
> audio editor and recorder.
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