external audio source -> cd

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Which model is this?  Are you certain that there is no equivalent Linux
software for this beast?

On Fri, 23 May 2003, dep wrote:
> morning, all.
>
> i have a little project that i hope to undertake here, but i'm not at
> all certain how to proceed.
>
> a dear friend of mine died the first of the month, and on monday there
> was a memorial luncheon in his honor. i have one of those dinky
> little olympus digital recorders and thought to record the remarks,
> which came through in better quality than i expected but not so good
> that the content would survive many generations of dubbing from
> involving magnetic media -- i'd normally dump the thing to cassette
> and call it a day.
>
> there is a usb port on the recorder, but the gadget saves in some
> proprietary file format which is readily converted to other formats
> only through the use of a provided program which runs only on
> windows. this suggests the need to insert an analog link, from the
> headphone output on the recorder to the line input on the audio card
> in my machine.
>
> now. beyond that i am lost because i have neither done this nor done
> anything like this, ever. i am not certain how -- or even what
> application to use -- to bring this in, save it as an easily read
> file, and burn it to a cd in music cd format, such that anyone who
> has a cd player can play it. i'm eager to get this done because it is
> currently subject to the volatile memory of the little recorder,
> which of course will go blank as soon as the batteries run out.
>
> ideas? strategies?
>

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