Small D3.js exercise to draw a circle of fifths diagram
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Slow down Charlie Parker with SoX
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An audio conversion use case: comparison of execution speed between SoX, FFmpeg and MPlayer
In a previous post I listed some options for audio data manipulation (conversion of format, sample rate, bitrate, trimming, etc), with SoX, MPlayer and FFmpeg. The obvious question is now: which one is best?
The obvious answer is: it depends. Several factors play a role in defining "the best": what …
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Audio format conversion cheat sheet (aka how to)
In my day job, I regularly have to convert/transcode/re-encode audio data from one format to another. Because I typically have to do this in batch jobs, I'm mostly dealing with command line tools (on Linux) like Lame, SoX (Sound eXchange), MPlayer and FFmpeg. Having a cheat sheet of …
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Reading MP3 files in Java
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Amarok crash (problem with collection.db)
I'm a happy Amarok user, using it for playing/browsing/querying my music collection, but this weekend I encountered a problem: Amarok didn't start anymore. When I launched Amarok (version 1.3.1, that is) from the command line I got the following error:
$> amarok amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. amaroK …
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Last.fm player on Linux
Today I bothered to intall the Last.fm player just to give it a try. The installation (on my Kubuntu 5.10 Linux laptop) was very easy. I just downloaded a tarball with the Linux binary from the Last.fm player download page and extracted it to a local folder …