In Part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the audio from a CD and save it as WAV files using cdparanoia. In today’s short tutorial I’ll show how to convert those WAV files to Ogg Vorbis audio files. So the first thing we’ll need to do is make sure that …
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There are many GUI based CD rippers available for the Linux desktop. While many of these applications do a great job of ripping, I like to understand the underlying technology. For that reason, I decided to figure out how to rip CD’s from the command line.
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Ripping Audio CD’s, Part 1If you regularly follow my blog you know that I recently got an HTC Droid Incredible smartphone. This phone has a native screen resolution of 480×320 pixels. MPEG4 video with AAC audio is supported in both the .mp4 and .3gp container formats.
Continue reading Transcode Video For The HTC Incredible on LinuxIf you’re a big social networking user, you’re probably familiar with link shortening services. The most popular of these are TinyURL and bit.ly. As an open source fan, you may be wondering, “where can I find a free and open source link shortener?”
Continue reading Shorten Your Links The Open Source WayI’ve shown previously how install the Chromium web browser in Ubuntu. Today I’m going to show you how to easily enable the Adobe Flash plugin for use in Chromium. You’ve probably already installed the Flash plugin for Mozilla Firefox, but if not, install it from the command line with:
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