Archiving tapes

[Scott Stevens]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:46:34 +0000
Peter Hicks <peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 08:31:19AM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
> 
> > So, when I want uncompressed audio, I demand AIFF because I know
> > what I'm getting.
> 
> I've just imagined a program which will:
> 
>   1. Read in an audio stream and decode in to machine-specific binary
>   (e.g.
>      BBC B, Spectrum etc.)
> 
>   2. Interpret the data and store in a generic format, which will be
>   smaller
>      than a 44kHz-sampled audio stream
> 
>   3. On demand, convert this generic format back to audio, which can
>   be
>      encoded in to an MP3 file with no loss of quality/data - in fact,
>      as the signal has effectively been regenerated, a substantial
>      quality increase
> 
> How difficult is it going to be to write a program like that?
> 
> 
> Peter.
> 

Will the open source 'sox' program come close to doing what you
describe?  It's a pretty versatile cross-format audio file converter.

It should, at a minimum, be a place to look for some ideas.