Tue, 15/05/2012 - 20:26 | 
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Nautilus Columns is a Nautilus extension that displays PDF and audio (mp3, WAV and FLAC) tags as well as EXIF metadata to the Nautilus List View. The extension has been updated recently by WebUpd8 reader Arun to work with Nautilus 3.4 so you can use it in the latest Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
The extension supports displaying the following info in the Nautilus list view columns:
- mp3, WAV, FLAC: artist, track, album, title, bitrate, date, genre, length and sample rate
- EXIF: dateshot, image size, software and flash
- PDF: title, author (displayed under "Artist")
Screenshots:
Tags: Mon, 23/01/2012 - 20:25 | webupd8.org
Puddletag is an audio tag editor for Linux, very similar to the popular Windows application Mp3tag.
The MusicBrainz and Discogs music tag sources stopped working in the latest stable Puddletag version for quite some time because of API changes but today, a new Puddletag version has been released (1.0 beta), finally bringing support for the latest MusicBrainz and Discogs APIs.
Puddletag 1.0 beta also comes with full support for Mp3tag tag sources (in my test though, I couldn't get any Mp3tag tag sources to work for some reason - bug reported), mass tagging improvements and other changes.
Fri, 02/12/2011 - 16:14 | webupd8.org
Split Lossless is a Nautilus script created by WebUpd8 reader CokiDVD to split single lossless audio files (ape, flac, wavpack) by .cue file into flac or mp3 (320kbps or 192kbps). Further more, the script also adds tags to the new files so all the resulting flac or mp3 files will have the artist, album, title and genre tags set up automatically.
The latest Split Lossless version (released a couple of days ago) comes with two new features: track name editor and album information editor and improvements such as: show selected tracks on main window.
Split Lossless is available in a PPA so to install it in Ubuntu, use the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cokicd/split-lossless
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install split-lossless
Audio Recorder is a Linux tool to record audio from your system's sound card or microphone and comes with some interesting advanced features such as a timer, automatic Skype call recorder and more.
- records your system's sound card, microphone, browser, webcam and so on
- built-in timer: you can start, stop or pause the recording at a pre-defined time or after a certain amount of time
- automatically start recording on either voice or sound
- automatically stop recording on silence
- it can be automatically controlled by Rhythmbox, Banshee, Amarok and other MPRIS compatible players as well as Skype. For instance, it can record all your Skype calls without any user interaction
- supported formats: OGG, flac, mp3, mp2, m4a, spx and wav
- Ubuntu AppIndicator support
To get Audio Recorder to automatically record your Skype calls, make sure you select "Yes" and check the "Remember this selection" box when Skype asks to authorize Audio Recorder:
Tue, 21/06/2011 - 11:05 | webupd8.org
Arista Transcoder is a really cool video converter for GNOME. It comes with a huge list of presets: from iPod, iPhone, PSP, Playstation 3 to Android, Nokia, DVD and lots more. It supports MP4, WebM, Matroska, AVI, Ogg, FLV (codecs - video: H.264, VP8, MPEG4 / DivX, MPEG2, Theora, Flash Video / audio: AAC, Vorbis, MP3, FLAC, Speex, WAV) formats and it can rip straight from DVD or v4l (Video 4 Linux) devices too.
A new Arista Transcoder version (0.9.7) was released yesterday with a revamped user interface ( now you can click on a device in the "Live preview" to select the preset for it), the ability to edit and manage device presets, export presets and lots of small fixes.
(Arista - Live Preview)
Mon, 06/06/2011 - 20:57 | webupd8.org
Puddletag is a Linux audio tag editor similar to Mp3tag (a popular Windows audio tagging tool) that supports ID3v1, ID3v2 (mp3), MP4 (mp4, m4a, etc.), VorbisComments (ogg, flac), Musepack (mpc), Monkey's Audio (.ape) and WavPack (wv).
I had this post saved as a draft for a few days because of a bug in Puddletag 0.10.4 which was finally fixed today in Puddletag 0.10.6.
So versions 0.10.5 and 0.10.6 only come with bug fixes but Puddletag 0.10.4 which was recently released, comes with some very interesting improvements:
