Posts tagged ‘unix’
A better way to losslessly join MP3 files
I recently revisited a previous how-to I wrote up two years ago, thinking that there must be a better way to losslessly combine multiple MP3 files than to use 3 separate utilities.
The good news is, I think I’ve found the one true method. The bad news is, it still uses 3 programs. But, just like last time, the commands are short and sweet, and it’s easy to throw them into a shell script. more …
Android SDK and NOEXEC tmp partition hint
If you’ve installed the Android SDK, but running the tools/android GUI fails with an error message when Java can’t find your SWT-GTK libraries, here’s a possible explanation: Your /tmp partition is mounted with the noexec option. more …
How to losslessly concatenate / merge MP3 files
You’d think it would be very easy to combine multiple MP3 files into one, while preserving all the ID3 tag metadata and without re-encoding the audio (which is lossy). Well, it actually isn’t that hard at all, but since Google couldn’t find the answer for me, I thought I’d write it up. more …