The PlusDeck is a PC Audio Tape deck component, which has a serial remote control interface.
My goal is to build a Gtk2 Perl application to easily record from, and eventually to, tapes from the PlusDeck in a user friendly way. The main reason for this is that my Fiance has a very massive collection of audio tapes of Indian Musicians , both live concerts and lessons, that really should be digitized before they degrade any further.
What was very nice was that I asked for, and received the SerialProtocol for the PlusDeck. A lot of credit has to be given to the PlusDeck devlopers for that fact.
I forsee the project evolving as so:
Create BasicGui - this is going to get my GTK2 Perl skills starting up
- Connect in Serial controls for playback
Connect in proper Audio support for recording automatically to a file. I know this is going to be a bear after doing some manual recordings over the summer with the PlusDeck. I can't get clean recordings unless I'm running with RT priority.
- Support recording to the device
An early CodeRepository is available at http://serenity.dague.org/hg/tuxplus.