cold case. Seems like scores on shows like Cold Case are great ways to ehar music. A great site there.

“Besplit”:http://besplit.doom9.org/ is a utlity that cuts up an MP3 file intelligently, so it happens on blank spaces. I’ve been using MP3DirectCut to do a similar thing, so another option if you’ve got a big file that needs to be cut. Another hat tip goes to “Besweet Light”:http://belight.corecodec.org/. This is an easy to understand tool that […]

Musicmatch Jukebox – World’s best music player. Well, I love Musicmatch and even though Yahoo has acquired it, it has served me faithfully. It is the only one of the big players that did smart tagging right. That is, it lets you select the tags and make them accurate in batch. But alas, now that […]

CoreFlac Directshow Flac Decoder. I store my digital music in FLAC format. This is an open source lossless format. Winamp can play this back, but these folks have written a Directshow filter so anything that uses Directshow like Windows Media Player can now play it back. Other projects by “Corecodec”:http://corecodec.org include a Directshow ogg vorbis […]

Hydrogenaudio Forums -> -V n (in 3.95.1). OK, Audible files are low quality relatively and they have four different “formats”:http://www.audible.com/formats/ So the best mappings appears to be these settings from “afterdawn”:http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/103313 | Audible Format | Audible Khz | | Format 1 | Mono 8Kbps proprietary | | Format 2 | Mono 16Kbps proprietary | | […]

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Converting .aa files to mp3’s. _DBpoweramp comes in handy again as a way to get my audible files onto unsupported devices. Audible is great but they don’t support every device._ Here is how: I’ve finally found a way to convert .aa (audible) to .mp3’s at 50x realtime! # Install Just use dBpowerAMP Music Converter which […]

The latest places to get LAME for my new machine build: * Multi-threading LAME MP3 Encoder. Kind of cool, this is a multithreaded version of Lame that should run better on hyperthreaded Pentiums by splitting the integer from the floating point calculations and also compiled by the special Intel compiler. A research project from the […]

Hydrogenaudio Forums – encoding the spoken word – settings?. Got a bunch of spoken word, here’s how to encode really small with Lame. You only need mono and a low bit rate. Some recommendations are to use a very low bit rate (-V 7) and also to use mono (-a) _lame -V 7 -a_ Another […]