It sometimes happens that I discover a need for another software program while reviewing an application. This happened during the review of DVD Slideshow Gui which is an excellent tool for creating DVD photo slideshows. The problem that I encountered during the review was that the program only allowed only one mp3 file for the [...]
ScreenTunes Finds Movie and TV Show Music
What is the name of the song they are playing now in this movie? I guess everyone has asked that question at some point in time only to find out that it was very difficulty to get an answer unless a movie soundtrack was released with the song in question being on the record. Most [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 31st, 2009
- Comments: 11
Convert various media formats to Vorbis in Linux
Over the past month I have made it my goal to stop using the proprietary MP3 format for audio in favor of the free, open standard Ogg Vorbis format. The primary reasons for doing this is 1) Modern Linux distributions do not ship with mp3 support built in (due to licensing constraints) and 2) My [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Aug 11th, 2009
- Comments: 1
Convert Youtube videos to audio in Linux
After reading Martin’s fine article “Download Youtube Videos” today, I had to give a bit of a Linux perspective and show how to do this in the Linux operating system. Inititially I assumed this would have to be done via the command line, because that is how I have always done conversions. But I have [...]
Download 1000 Free MP3
Microsoft and Reverbnation are currently running a promotion that is offering 1000 songs for free download. The songs are available in mp3 and m4a format and can be downloaded directly from one of the websites the promotion is running on. This includes the Windows Myspace page and a special Windows directory at Reverbnation.
You find a [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 31st, 2009
- Comments: 6
Say “Cheese” with your webcam on Linux
So you went ahead and purchased that System 76 laptop or you decided to finally install Linux on your laptop. You now have a Linux based laptop with a webcam. But how do you take advantage of this hardware? You want to be able to use that web cam to upload photos to facebook (or [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: May 5th, 2009
- Comments: 8
Songbird in Linux
If you remember my last media entry, The best Linux media players, you’ll remember I left out one very important entry – Songbird. At the time I really hadn’t given this relatively new entry to the media players a try. But recent “upgrades” to Rhythmbox and Banshee which left either 1) much to be desired [...]
