Category Archives: Audio/Video

ALAC Freed at Last (Not That It’ll Matter Much)

Posted on 2011 October 31, Monday by JamesIsIn

If you are an Apple user there is a very slim chance you have used ALAC files on your various components. ALAC or Apple Lossless Audio Codec is a lossless audio codec (duh).  It compresses music down from their original … Continue reading →

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Burning in Banshee

Posted on 2011 August 28, Sunday by JamesIsIn

I wanted to burn one of my playlists to a CD this morning, but I had some trouble figuring out how or where Banshee managed the burning. I thought perhaps I could just locate a playlist and right-click on that … Continue reading →

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Banshee, Its Library, and Importing Playlists

Posted on 2011 August 4, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I have been preparing myself for the move from Rhythmbox to Banshee as the default media library application in future versions of Ubuntu.  I have encountered some interesting peculiarities and I thought I’d talk a bit about them here for … Continue reading →

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A New Script for Skipping Tracks

Posted on 2011 August 1, Monday by JamesIsIn

A while back I wrote a simple script for skipping tracks (and a couple of other things) for Rhythmbox.  Now that Ubuntu is moving to Banshee as their default media library application I have tossed together a new script for … Continue reading →

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OGG Will Ninja Your MP3 and Make You Happy

Posted on 2010 December 15, Wednesday by JamesIsIn

I’d prefer that everyone in the world used FLAC, but since there is still an inexplicable desire to use lost compression formats to save storage space I am going to recommend that you at least upgrade to the OGG Vorbis … Continue reading →

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Script for Skipping Tracks

Posted on 2010 November 30, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

I use Rhythmbox to play music on my hi-fi system.  There is a command line element for Rhythmbox called rhythmbox-client.  This element can be used to initiate a series of commands in Rhythmbox.  The problem is that these commands end … Continue reading →

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Conquer Giant APE and Giant FLAC

Posted on 2010 September 30, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I have already written posts on splitting and converting from either album-length APE files or album-length FLAC files into track-length FLAC files. (My post on converting APE files; my post on splitting APE files; my post on splitting FLAC files. … Continue reading →

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Little Apes to FLAC Files

Posted on 2010 January 18, Monday by JamesIsIn

You may come across individual APE files which you would like to convert to FLAC files.  This can be especially useful if you have an album FLAC and an accompanying CUE file and you are having trouble getting the APE … Continue reading →

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Make a Big APE into Several Small, Tagged FLAC Files

Posted on 2009 December 8, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

You may recall with great excitement my post on splitting and tagging album length FLAC files into track length FLAC files.  It may come to pass that you find yourself staring at an album length APE file. What?  What the … Continue reading →

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Split a FLAC and Tag the Children using Cue Information

Posted on 2009 September 3, Thursday by JamesIsIn

It may come to pass that you download a concert or album only to discover that the encoder has helped you out by encoding the entire thing as a single FLAC file accompanied by a .cue file for determining the … Continue reading →

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