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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by amelius on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:19AM (#16967740)
I used to save tracks by recording them through the "analog hole", using the following commandline in Linux:

    parec | sox -t raw -r 44100 -Lb 16 -c 2 -e signed-integer - -t wav raw.wav
It still requires a lot of manual work, such as cutting the tracks, and making sure there are no "skips" (which somehow can happen). Skips could theoretically be removed using a consensus algorithm (using multiple recordings).

I just wish someone would develop a fully automated workflow for converting playlists to audio files.

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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by hiram112 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:34AM (#16967904)
I'm not familiar with the 'parec' command. Are you able to filter out other audio streams (e.g. Slack alerts or accidentally opening a page with an auto-play video)? I was under the impression that one of the big advantages of Pulse Audio was its ability to separate multiple streams.

Interestingly enough, I had similar scripts about 15 years ago pre-Napster. The earliest mp3 sharing sites tended to push full-albums instead of breaking things up by track. I had a lot of fun using some of the earlier mp3 tools to break up and tag tracks. I still have a lot those mp3s on various HDs, and I know it because my splits weren't perfect for certain tracks that don't have 2 second gaps.

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Re:Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles o... by amelius on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @11:59AM (#16968191)
In theory PulseAudio should be able to separate the streams, or at least turn off audio for selected applications. However, this was never really a problem anyway because I usually ran the command at night :)

Yes, audio processing in the early days was fun, though it's easier now because of better tools and especially bigger harddrives and faster CPUs :)

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