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ivanovnegro wrote:CLI apps/tools exist for sure but I will let others recommend them as I do not use any of them.
I use Perl Audio Converter (pacpl)...
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=pacplUsage example, say I have a folder named "The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta" and it's all in .wma format. Change to that directory...
cd Music/'The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta'
... and run pacpl with the following switches, in this case converting to a bitrate of 192...
pacpl -t mp3 --delete --bitrate 192 *.wma
That will convert all .wma files in that folder, deleting the .wma files after converting them, remove "--delete" if you want to keep the originals. You can do the same with flac, wav, etc... by changing *.wma to *.flac, etc... Use any available bitrate equal to or lower than the original (--bitrate 320, --bitrate 128, etc...).
To change the bitrate of MP3s use the following, in this case reducing to 192 from, say, 320...
pacpl -t mp3 --overwrite --bitrate 192 *.mp3
Again, remove "--overwrite" if you want to keep the originals.
pacpl won't output to VBR, AFAIK, but will accept a VBR original and convert it to a fixed bitrate. As always, see man pacpl for more info.
hashbanger wrote:So? This is "general chat", right?
Nonetheless, your arrogance behooves you not. Take it from one who is well steeped in the teapot of arrogance.
Damn, I've been wanting something like this for a while. Knew it was a good idea to come back to this place. Thank you.
As for music players I run Banshee because it works best for me. Since I have a netbook with a limited amount of space I tend to carry all my music on a portable HDD. Banshee doesn't care about the music being there. Some music players have a tendency to want to go and rescan every time I start it. Banshee also works with my Sansa Clip and my Galaxy Nexus so that's a plus. It even will convert from FLAC to mp3 when putting music on the Sansa Clip. The Clip does support FLAC but I really would rather have more music than the better sound quality on a portable device. Yes, Banshee does tend to crash and yes, it has the "evil" mono. Pretty sad that I run KDE on my desktop but cannot stand Amarok.
I've never been impressed enough by Chrome to see a reason to use it instead of Firefox/Iceweasel. Besides, Firefox/Iceweasel follows whatever theme I happen to be running. Plus I have all my bookmarks synced across three computers. Now if they would just make the Android version work better.
Looked at them, seemed like a decent idea, but way too overpriced. Would rather just buy a decent laptop, wipe Windows, and install some Linux distro. Be cheaper.
Sunshine the Werewolf
nice setups, and i really like the font on the conky, looks very nice.
The font I used is called Cranberry Gin. I have no idea where I found it. Also, I like your desktop. Nice set-up.
@ Sunshine the Werewolf - maybe not fancy - but it has an elegance in it's simplicity. Me, I'm more into the "fill-er up" type.
Thank you. I have noticed that you really go all out with conky. They really are impressive, such as, the DS9 set-up.
I don't know if fancy, but it looks very artistic... beautiful!
Thank you. I try to match all the colours in conky and tint2 to the wallpaper. Nice set-up you have. I like seeing the various WM out there. Some just look amazing.
@rstrcogburn: I like the Duke ascii art.
asciijump
It's fun for a little while.
Sunshine: worst case, you could always move the sound file
Trust me, I've thought about it.
I use Deja-dup on my desktop. Basically simplifies the process. My netbook I back-up manually.
It seems that any time someone brings up a minimalist, or netbook, or lightweight distro on /g/ #! always gets mentioned. Usually someone will mention ArchBang as well. Recently I read someone talking about the forum here and how friendly it is. Seems that people are noticing how great #! is.
Oh and for those that don't know, /g/ is the technology board on 4chan.
I currently use Turpial. The only complaint I have is that it "tweets" every time there is a new tweet. Gets to be annoying after awhile. Maybe I'm missing something, but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make it not "tweet". Other than that, it works like a charm.
I like Plymouth, especially on my netbook. Makes the whole boot process look more "modern".
Sunshine the Werewolf wrote:Currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Typically I read the classics.
If it's a classic, I usually download an read it from gutenberg.org... H. G. Wells rocks.
Thanks for the heads up on the site. Now I just need to get an e-reader or something. Mostly I just read actual books.
Currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Typically I read the classics.
I just want to make a My Little Pony Linux. Just think of the themes. The pinks. The purples. The rainbows.
Nice one! I like how all the colors match
gcolor2. It a great little color picker that helps me match the colours.
Well, I feel bad for being late to the party. I would have suggested Kubuntu. Oh well.
3.0? But Windows was at 3.1 twenty years ago.
Okay, I'll leave the jokes for people that are actually funny. For me, for the most part, I don't pay much attention to the numbering system. About the only thing this would really effect is those that show the Kernel in their Conky setups.
A Buddhist themed distro?
Okay, for many other reasons I am going to download this give it a test run. I guess that means I need to hack out another partition and triple boot. I've got #! and Bodhi on here already.
That's great. Really great.
I'm still mixed on how I feel about Unity. Time will tell how successful Unity will be. I have stated before, I'm a KDE fanboy. I rode out the transition to KDE 4 and now, many releases later, KDE is the best DE out there. Will Unity become something great?
I can't really hate Ubuntu for trying to make Linux more accessible. Far too often we, in a community, tend to hate something once it becomes popular. As if, its popularity now gives us a reason to hate the one thing we once loved. Most people I know came to Linux through Ubuntu. If more people come to Linux through Ubuntu and Unity so be it. There will be those that drift out to find better distros to suit their needs.
All this talk and people forgot about BSD? And no love for the "others" out there, Plan 9, Haiku, Solaris?
But back to the point, yeah, I have yet to figure out a way to successful explain Linux without sounding like a nerd. Oh well. I usually tell people that by running Linux I actually own my computer.
@ Sunshine the Werewolf & hardran3
RE the "word clock" in conky:
All those ${if_match ...} statements chew up CPU cycles........
mobilediesel made a bash script to do the same: WordClock
Thanks!
Computer fan and barking dogs.
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