The Lady needs to prepare a sound track for the Putonghua listening test at her school. A couple of years ago we recorded the sound track on her Win98 machine w/ some third party shareware, did some minor editing, and burnt the file onto a few CDs. The result was very good, and beat her colleagues’ taped recordings and 2nd generation tapes in clarity by a mile, something I think her kids appreciate.
Since then I have found Audacity, a cool OSS sound editor. The Lady’s old Win98 machine is no more, and the Win2000 laptop she is using is one nasty machine, making some horrible noisy every few seconds in the audio circuits, rendering the recording unusable. Audacity however works very well on my P-II Linux workstation. The equipment is all ready for the Lady to do her recording. Cool.
Update: Recording and editing were unevenful. CD burning OTOH was far from satisfactory. K3b doesn’t recognize a .wav file for buring an audio CD, so I used an .ogg (Ogg Vorbis) file instead. However, the resulting CD does not play the audio at the right speed (more like 5X). After 2 wasted CDs I resorted to importing the .wav file into iTunes and burnt it on my TiBook.