10.25 Recommended Recording Process

• Gramofile to record from the sound card through line in from the source (e.g., LP record)
• Gramofile to identify track beginnings and endings. These are saved to a .tracks file automatically.
• Audacity to confirm and fine tune the track splits stored in the .tracks file.
• Gramofile to perform the split into tracks and to filter out pops using the Conditional Median Filter II. The tracks are saved into separate files numbered 01, 02, etc.
• Xmms to check the beginning and ending of each track to confirm the splits were fine.
• Audacity to edit out any remaining spikes in each track, being sure to export back to WAV if any changes are made.
• The tracks are now ready to burn to CD. Create a disk.toc:

  CD_DA
  TRACK AUDIO
  FILE "side1001.wav" 0
  TRACK AUDIO
  FILE "side1002.wav" 0
  ... 
  TRACK AUDIO
  FILE "side2005.wav" 0

Then

  $ cdrdao write disk.toc

A handy table of minutes to seconds:

.	.	.	.	.
1=60	2=120	3=180	4=240	5=300
6=360	7=420	8=480	9=540	10=600
11=660	12=720	13=780	14=840	15=900
16=960	17=1020	18=1080	19=1140	20=1200
21=1260	22=1320	23=1380	24=1440	25=1500
26=1560	27=1620	28=1680	29=1740	30=1800

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