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I use lame for batch transcodes of mp3 files, for when I want to put them on a CD-R, or on my phone. I transcode them down to a much lower bitrate than what I store on my server. But, if I just use lame for this transcoding, it dosen’t copy the id3 tags properly. [...]
Continue Reading →One of the things that impressed me most about the Palm Pre (and WebOS) are the built in sound effects and system sounds. The “I’ve just been plugged in” sound (alert.mp3, below) is especially great. So, when I saw that a WebOS root image had been leaked, I thought it would be great to download [...]
Continue Reading →Introduction mt-daapd is an iTunes daap-protocol server for Unix systems. I’m using mt-daapd on by Ubuntu 9.04 system to stream music over the internet to my workplace. The issue is that many of my mp3 files are 256kbps mp3 files, and streaming these takes up more bandwidth than necessary. mt-daapd includes a transcoding system called [...]
Continue Reading →The one biggest (and most annoying) missing package for Ubuntu 9.04 amd64 is the amazon mp3 downloader package. This is critical being able to download special cheap albums from amazon, and is only available as a 32-bit package for Ubuntu 8.04 (Intrepid). There are several descriptions on the net on how to hack around missing [...]
Continue Reading →It was a long and tumultuous affair, but now I’ve officially given up on web-based streaming of my personal music collection. I started out with netjuke, which died and got absorbed into the horrible jinzora project. So then I switched to Ampache, which worked fairly well, but needs some serious UI upgrades/changes to make it [...]
Continue Reading →I listen to all of my music via streaming it from my home machine, and transcoding it on the fly. I recently made 2 changes to my setup: I’m using audacious for playback instead of xmms I switched to a more recent version of lame. After doing so, about 1 in 10 files would fail [...]
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Amazon has released an mp3 downloader for Linux! Woot!
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Here’s a link to an unofficial SXSW 2008 mp3 torrent. Happy listening!
Continue Reading →My friend Rich pointed me at daytrotter.com, and it looks like they have a really nice collection of live recordings by a bunch of interesting artists. All the files are available for download on their site, so using some trickery, I created a txt file of all the mp3 URLs so that you can use [...]
Continue Reading →I’ve grown impatient waiting for 2008.sxsw.com to release their torrent of mp3 files. I’m wondering if they’re going to do it at all. So, I decided to just suck down the whole site and scrape out all the URLs to all the mp3 files and download them. It was very straightforward. First, scrape the site [...]
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