I’ve basically long abandoned this site aside from some minor coding experiments here and there. Lots of broken links, etc. But I think it’s time to bring it back in at least a minimal capacity. I went through and fixed most of my old content, however most visitors likely do not care about this; if Read more about Minor blog revival?[…]
I don’t know how well this program is known, but being a console guy I’ve found it invaluable. A little program named abcde.
I absolutely love cdparanoia. I don’t trust any other program for making bit-perfect copies of my CDs. But cdparanoia is just a ripper. Add in with CDDB and FLAC, and I have excellent and (mostly) convenient conversion from CD to lossless audio files for local listening and uploading to Google Play. Add lame, and I got MP3s for my car. (Assuming an MP3 encoding license, of course.)
Tying these together is a pain in the butt, and there’s a number of programs out there for it. But the best console program I’ve found is abcde. It’s a very well done wrapper with lots of options, support for resuming, parallelization (tagging/encoding the last song while ripping the next song)… And a number of other things I may never use.
Anyway, with the appropriate packages installed, and an appropriate abcde config file, you too can enjoy quality console-based CD ripping.
(This guide assumes Debian Wheezy, but is likely usable on most Debian-based distributions.)
I’m sure there’s other solutions out there, but I’ll share mine. Create a directory on your system and add it to your path. In my case, I use C:\scripts. Create a script, cyghere.bat, as follows (assuming cygwin is installed to C:\cygwin): Now, you can launch a cygwin shell from basically any program that lets you Read more about Simple tricks: “cyghere”: open Cygwin shell here[…]
Problem: You want to play your classic 256-color Blizzard Windows games and find out that the colors are all messed up. Compatibility mode workarounds provide at best only temporary relief; the moment you alt-tab between Windows, or perhaps during just playing the game, the palette gets reset and everything goes puke ugly. What’s the problem? Read more about Starcraft: Brood War and Diablo 1 on Windows 7: HOWTO[…]
On Windows 7, automatic updates of Warcraft 3 don’t work like normal, and the cinematics don’t show up – rather, you only hear the audio. This is how to fix it. This took a small bit of googling to find; I’ll add my own version of how to do this below. Assuming that Warcraft 3 Read more about Warcraft 3 on Windows 7: how to fix cinematics and get Battle.net updates to work[…]