Normalizing your MP3 collection with mp3gain

Uncategorized 20 September 2006 | 13 Comments

Carthik Sharma from Ubuntu Blog suggests the following method to normalize all the MP3 files in your collection: find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mp3gain -r -k Unfortunately, this seems to have problems with very large collections (I suspect that the command line is being filled up), so here’s what I [...]

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Neat little Linux tool

Uncategorized 12 September 2006 | 0 Comments

Command Not Found is a great little utility for Linux. If you’ve ever tried to follow a set of instructions only to find that you don’t have some of the CLI programs needed, this will come to your rescue. Install command-not-found then add this to your ~/.bashrc: function command_not_found_handle { /usr/bin/command-not-found $1 return $? } [...]

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Spotted

Uncategorized 5 September 2006 | 0 Comments

This seen outside New World supermarket, Wellington, New Zealand. I’m not sure if the placement is some kind of metaphor.

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