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bashtagger: Joining the coalition party
I eagerly await the arrival of the console tool that replaces EasyTag on my system — even more so now than I have for the past five or six years, because EasyTag took it upon itself to make the leap to...
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juke: Just a little more than the bare minimum
At the absolute minimum, you could expect to get sound playback out of your computer simply by tacking on file names and a few oddball flags to something like mpg123 or sox. It’s not ideal, and it...
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mps: Not unlike its brother
I was sorely tempted to gloss over mps, because I mentioned mps-youtube way back in September. But I’ve spent a short time with it and I think it’s worthy of mention in its own right. mps sticks very...
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btag: Action-interaction
I failed to make a note of who submitted btag as a console-environment audio file tagger, and I apologize for that. I do try to give credit where and when it is due. As you can see, btag works in an...
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id3ren: Unfortunately, this will be brief
My posts will likely be rather sporadic in coming days; the real-life issues that cropped up last week have spilled over into this one, and until I can get to a solid period of free time, I’m afraid...
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meterec: A halfhearted endorsement
Next up is meterec, which brands itself as a multitrack audio recorder based on the JACK sound structure. I must also hold out a rather weak thumbs-up for this one, mostly because I had serious...
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emms: Your one-stop text editor, music player and operating system
I suppose it had to come to this: It’s emms. It’s emacs, playing music. Because emacs can check your e-mail, run a spreadsheet, chat with your friends, read your newsfeeds and now play your music....
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groove-dl: Jumping the shark
I was tempted to skip over groove-dl because my list of stream ripper tools is starting to devolve into a tool-per-service array, and when things become discrete and overly precise, I start to fall...
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mpfc: Doing everything so right
Once I knew what mpfc stood for, it made perfect sense — it is, after all, a music player for the console. And a very nicely done music player too, I might add. You can learn how to handle 90...
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ncdt: An interesting evolution
Quick on the heels of tree and ddir, a loyal reader pointed out ncdt, which takes the tree model and adds a small feature or two. As you can see, ncdt adds the size of files and directories as part of...
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