Claude helps turn old concert audio work into a repeatable workflow
Old DAT tapes contain audience recordings of concerts that are imported into Audacity. The usual process is to add labels, export separate song files, and do light cleanup before uploading them to a hobby archive website for the artist Jerry Hannan. The files are stored in .
With little audio engineering knowledge, the work has mostly stayed limited to fade-ins, fade-outs, loudness , and occasional noise reduction. Limiter and tools in Audacity have been hard to understand. Claude was used to explore a clearer and more .
Claude Code also made website work feel easier. The new plan documents a full audio processing pipeline for publishing live concert recordings: first pulling FLAC or WAV source files from with rclone, then using FFmpeg to run diagnostic checks on every track.
Key points
- The workflow starts with old DAT concert recordings imported into Audacity.
- The finished files support a hobby archive website for Jerry Hannan.
- The earlier process only used basic fades, loudness , and rare noise reduction.
- Claude helped design and document a complete audio processing pipeline.
- The planned uses rclone to fetch files and FFmpeg to inspect each track.