It’s been close to two years since I wrote GNOME Audio Player Shootout, a visual and textual comparison of some the best available audio players for the GNOME desktop.
As is usually the case in the world of free software, a…
Archive for the tag 'audio'
Aug 02 2007
Significant free software updates
After ignoring it for some time now, I’ve updated quite a few of my free software pages in the last couple of days. A brief overview of the changes.
- Web Browsers
- Added Safari, because I would be remiss if I didn’t
- Instant Messagers…
Jul 27 2007
Audio News You Can Use
It’s been a busy couple of weeks in the world of digital audio: Hydrogen Audio is even more abuzz than normal.
Exact Audio Copy v0.99 prebeta 1
André has released a new version of Exact Audio Copy. A high-level changelog is as follows:
- Better…
Jul 10 2007
cdrtfe: a powerful cdrtools frontend
Previously, I reviewed InfraRecorder, a relatively young project that seeks to add a bit of spit and polish to the venerable cdrtools command line programs. At the time, noted that while the interface was lovely, there were a few flaws, notably the…
Feb 14 2007
FLAC 1.1.4
A new version of FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Encoder—has been released, a mere three months after its last major release.
The main improvements in this release are speed optimizations at all levels, but most importantly, encoding at -8 is twice as fast as it…
Jan 18 2007
GNOME audio player shootout
It might be of interest to read this article’s follow-up, GNOME Audio Player Shootout Revisited
The search for the perfect audio player on the Linux desktop seems to be on par with finding the Holy Grail. The problem is that everyone…