I’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 MP3‘s for download and now you want them in a different format or bit-rate for your music player. Continue reading
In 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 this. Yes, you could write your own Bash script to automate some of the steps, but as is often the case with Open Source Software, someone else has already done the work for you. Continue reading
RockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players:
If required/desired, install hardware specific video drivers (nVidia or ATI). Go to System?Administration?Hardware Drivers and enable the drivers for your video card. You will need to reboot to make this take affect. Continue reading
I did a post on the Ubuntu Forums a while back on how to update mp3 file tags with a program called EasyTAG. I’ve tried a few different tag editors and found that EasyTAG best meets my needs. It’s available in the Universe repositories in Ubuntu. Continue reading