Recently in Software Audio Category

Fixing iTunes stutters. This has been annoying me so much when doing a copy between the PCMCIA card in my Dell Latitude D410 and the hard drive.
Blame this on Microsoft's DirectSound support which is hooked into QuickTime to play iTunes music. iTunes uses the quicktime preferences.

Close iTunes, open QuickTime preferences, and change the 'Sound Out' from DirectSound to 'Wave Out.'

Now wasn't that easy!

Cool looking. I want to set up a friend for podcasting, this looks like a nice component.

KRISTAL Audio Engine

KRISTAL Audio Engine is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer - ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio.

It is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live audio input and so on are loaded as separate Plug-Ins.

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Joining the Dark Side: Switching to iPod
although I find iTunes laggy at times, must be my huge music library, but the experience on the whole is enjoyable. If you haven't tried iTunes on your windows pc, I recommend it heartily! Just rip all your cd's to mp3 only and you'll avoid lockin.

I've discovered some minor annoyances with my new iPod and iTunes, such as the difficulty in transferring over all my ratings and album art, but for the most part I'm happy I made the switch. Microsoft is going to have a hard time winning me back—certainly they haven't announced anything that would make me reconsider. The idea of subscription-based music is Microsoft's real strength, but it's not enough.

Linux Radio Timeshift HOWTO
looking for a way to automate timeshifting with linux. Nice writeup here.

This document describes how to use your linux box and radio tuner to record your favourite radio programs for listening at your leisure. No longer do you have to schedule your life around your local NPR or CBC station! You can pause, rewind and fast forward through the boring bits.

My take on this thing called life!!: How to fix iPod Eq distortion.
I've read about gain riding before. This write up recommends mp3Gain which looks like a neat project.

The iPod gives a somewhat harsh and metallic sound when the equalizer is turned on. It does not matter which preset you choose (except Flat).

Fruitcast
Wow automatic add's in your podcast stream... how long before apple jumps on board. I have mixed feelings about this, it could either work really well or it will kill podcasting. The obvious middle ground is to sustain creative developers in their process model, and not annoy the listener. will it work?

Fruitcast automates the process of inserting ads into podcasts. We download a podcast's MP3 audio files, add the advertisements on the fly, and then send them to the podcast's subscribers. Each time a podcast episode is downloaded, the advertiser is charged a certain amount, and a significant portion of that amount is credited to the podcaster.

hPlaylist XMDP Profile
the Microformats train gains steam as Lucas Gonze announces the first draft of a small portable playlist format...

hPlaylist Profile

This document is an XMDP profile for an XHTML playlist format derived from XSPF. Item definitions are lifted from the XSPF version 1 specification. However, I have changed some of the identifiers because things that made perfect sense in an XML context did not make sense in this context.

This is not intended to be the last word. It is a first try at an h* format for playlists based on XSPF to see what the results would look like.

foobar2000

windows media player is hideous, especially because the compact mode takes up so much real estate. is this better than winamp??? not as pretty but works fine. Any other suggestions for simple audio playback with playlist support on windows.

Foobar2000 is an advanced audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include ReplayGain support, low memory footprint and native support for several popular audio formats.

• MPEG-4 AAC


• MP3


• MP2


• Musepack


• Ogg Vorbis


• WAV


• AIFF


• VOC


• AU


• SND


• CDDA


• FLAC


• Monkey's Audio


• WavPack


• Speex


• Mod


• SPC

apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)
I am amazed. python is used in a script to take motion readings from your new series powerbook and control the music with that motion sensor. wow!

After a few more minutes, we had the tilt sensor controlling Timo's music. You rock the machine backwards for the next track, and rock it forwards for the previous track. Then we realised that you rarely need "previous"--you just listen to music, and when a track comes on your don't want to hear, you jog your laptop and it bumps on to the next song (and you don't need to be in iTunes). Wicked. Tasty microembodiment.

RipIT - easy command line tool to encode audio CDs
does it all console based mp3 ripping. Yay!

RipIT is used to create MPEG-1 Layer 3 (mp3), Flac (flac) or Ogg Vorbis (ogg) audio files from an audio CD. It is a console based front-end (no fancy GUI here), written in perl, for these excellent programs

# Gets the Audio CD Album/Artist/Tracks information from CDDB
# Rips the Audio CD Tracks
# Encodes to flac, mp3 or ogg
# id3 tags encoded songs
# Creates an playlist (m3u) file
# Can prepare and send a CDDB submission.

CC Mixter - The remix family tree
check it out...

CC Mixter recently hosted two remix contests where entrants had a chance to be featured on the Creative Commons release THE WIRED CD: Ripped. Sampled. Mashed. Shared. Sampling The Beastie Boys, David Byrne, DJ Danger Mouse, and many others to win. Or, win a chance to be on the next Fine Arts Militia album featuring Chuck D.

WSPse: MP3c
ticked off at grip... id3 tags not written...

MP3c is a special program for converting audio-cds to mp3/ogg-format. It is a frontend for every grab-program and mp3-encoder. Nearly every program should be supported. MP3c has two different run-modes: An interactive mode with a menu-enviroment (based on curses-lib), which can used on textconsoles as well under X11, and a batchmode, which allows automatic encoding of cds inside shellscripts (eg at night within cronjobs).