Years ago, in my middling tech explorations, I setup an Apache webserver to privately serve my music collection. I shared the link and password with a longtime friend over Instant Messaging. As she browsed my collection, I watched the server logs and commented through IM on what she was looking at. She eventually told me …
Tag Archives: MP3
Numb Dive Thumb Drive Dumb Live
A few days after purchasing my 2012 Honda Civic, I’m beginning to learn a few of its quirks. The car comes stock with an audio unit that plays AM/FM, CD, Line-In, as well as USB support for thumbdrives and iPod. “How cool is that?” I asked. So I loaded up one of my spare thumbdrives …
Transcode Is the Home of Count Flacula
Now that my CD collection’s ripped to FLAC, I had to filter through my entire MP3 collection and pull out all of the MP3 rips of said albums. That took a few hours, to say the least. Still have those copies, just in case, but after symlinking my FLAC folder into my music folder so …
Diss Order
This question goes out to all you librarians and taxonomists in my readership. I have a large music collection, and I make every effort to keep all of my file tags as clean, correct and complete as possible. This allows me to easily search my collection and drill down to the artist, album, and song …
Crystal Clear
I suppose the downside to using FLAC as a codec for storing your music is that the file sizes are much, much larger than MP3. Based on my current statistics, each album will average around 340MB on disk, which seems like a lot but it’s not bad considering the Red Book Standard for CDs declares …