I recently got a new TV that allows me to stream audio and video from my computer to the TV. I tend to archive music from CD’s I’ve purchased in FLAC format. Unfortunately, FLAC is not one of the formats supported by my TV. I decided to write a little script to convert my music …
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If you’ve ever been a KDE user, you are probably familiar with the Amarok music player. Perhaps you prefer GNOME over KDE but you really prefer Amarok over the music players normally offered in GNOME. You could always go ahead and install Amarok, but it brings along a ton of KDE dependencies. Good news! There …
Continue reading Juice Your Music With ClementineMy last post was about converting audio files in Linux with GStreamer. In that post I showed how to convert FLAC files to Ogg Vorbis files and retain the audio tags. You may however, have an audio player that does not support playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and you want to convert your files to …
Continue reading Converting Audio to MP3 with GStreamerI’ve written before about ripping audio CD’s from the command line (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). Certainly, if you’re just ripping a new CD, then just convert the audio to your chosen format at that time. But maybe you’ve been archiving your music in FLAC format or you purchased some high bit-rate …
Continue reading Converting Audio Files with GStreamerIn the previous installments of Command Line Basics: Ripping Audio CD’s, I’ve gone through ripping CD’s and saving the files as WAV files, transcoding those files to Ogg Vorbis audio, and finally, querying an online CD database tagging those Ogg files. I the last installment, I promised to show a more automated way to do …
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