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 [...]

Tags: audio conversion, mp3 conversion, mp3 to ogg conversion
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

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 [...]

Tags: mp3 conversion, video to music conversin, youtube conversion
Categories: Linux, Mac, Music and Video, Online Services, Tutorials Basic, Windows, software

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 [...]

Tags: free m4a, free-mp3, free-music, m4a download, mp3, mp3 download, music, reverbnation, Windows
Categories: Music and Video

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 [...]

Tags: cheese, Linux, photo booth software, photos, web cam
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Notebooks, Open Source, Tutorials Basic, software

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 [...]

Tags: Linux, media players
Categories: Advice, Linux, Music and Video, Tutorials Basic, software

If you don’t know, the Bubba 2 is a piece of hardware, driven by the Linux operating system, created by ecXito. The Bubba 2 can stream media, serve files, share printers, and more. How? The Bubba 2 uses Samba to share out services and files. Because it uses Samba, connecting to the Bubba 2 is [...]

Tags: Bubba 2, DAAP, file-sharing, Linux, samba
Categories: Hardware, Linux, Music and Video, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

Streamtuner is one of those Linux applications that would most likely go unnoticed without mention. That is a shame considering how easy it makes finding and tuning into various music streams without having to touch the command or even google your favorite types of music.
With Streamtuner you will find plenty of music genres at your [...]

Tags: Linux, live365, shoutcast, streaming music
Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Online Services, Open Source, software