Split lossless audio and tag it

Submitted by Plecebo on Fri, 11/18/2011 - 23:42

Nearly all this information was found on the blog: http://aidanjm.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/split-lossless-audio-ape-flac-wv...

The steps below are the steps that I follow to split my own audio that I find still in a single lossless file (usually .wav).

$ sudo apt-get install cuetools shntool flac
$ cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -o flac sample.wav
$ cuetag sample.cue split-track*.flac

Music

Submitted by Plecebo on Thu, 11/17/2011 - 21:08

Information on all things music

tUnE-yArDs Videos from Live @ KEXP sessions

Submitted by Plecebo on Mon, 06/13/2011 - 15:54

I've been having a bit of a tUnE-yArDs obsession of late, and was happy to see some videos showing thier performance on KEXP.

I've always had a hard time explaining the way that Merrill Garbus loops her vocals and music to create a full feature piece.

Better then explaining is to watch her do it. Sarah and I saw her play at the Crocodile after she played on KEXP and the effect is intoxicating. I already loved the album, but seeing her do it live reinforced that feeling.

Coachella 2010 video

Submitted by Plecebo on Thu, 10/14/2010 - 09:33

Great video giving a peak at what Coachella was like. For those who haven't been you really can't imagine the scale of the festival, it is impressive. What a great time it was.

Mean people suck, car edition!

Submitted by Plecebo on Sun, 07/26/2009 - 13:03

This is the exact kind of situation that made me begin making archival copies of my music ASAP, sometimes before I even listened to it. Someone lifted my book of music cd's from my car the other day, and I just noticed last night.

Lucky for me (how ironic) I made backups of them all, so I can replace them at the cost of burning new ones, however they won't have the great art, and they won't bet the CD's i've spent thousands of dollars collecting.

Out with the Amarok in with the Listen

Submitted by Plecebo on Thu, 05/14/2009 - 08:33

It happened one too many times, Amarok (Amarok) stopped playing my music. No good reason, just "too many errors". One last time it refused to play the one song I needed to hear right then. So it was time to switch. Pst... Listen (Listen), that is your queue.

I'm giving up form for function, the aesthetic for the operational. Its a tough choice, I've really loved Amarok, it was one of the first music players I scrobbled (My Last.fm profile) with. Now you can pick up scrobble integrated players at every turn.

First impressions, Listen just feels more like a Gnome app, which is not a surprise since Amarok has its roots so deep in the KDE world, and Listen is written in Python, which in my hobby coder world is my language of choice. We will have to see how things work out, I'm still hoping for something simple and elegant like foobar2000 (my all time favorite music player) or Songbird, and while I know I can run these via WINE, I'd rather support a native Linux option if I can.