[FFmpeg-user] Converting a cassette audio tape (Lecture) to mp3

[Moritz Barsnick]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:26:58 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
> I am running fedora 20 with

Which is EOL. I just updated to F22 myself today. :-)

> I need a set of steps/commands to convert this tape.

Is it already digitized?

If so:
$ ffmpeg -i audiofile -c:a libmp3lame audiofile.mp3
and adjust your audio settings as you need them (channel count,
quality, ...)

> I have  plenty of audio tools installed - but not certain what
> else I might need.

If you need to digitize your audio tape first, you need to tell us
about your available hardware (though this list is not really for
that). You will probably need to check out ffmpeg's "pulse" or "alsa"
indevs for capturing.

Moritz