January 26, 2007 – 5:53 pm
To work with monkey’s audio (ape) files you need the “mac” command line tool. This software isn’t available in the Ubuntu repositories so you will need to either compile mac yourself, or alternatively install it from a .deb file.
Installing mac from a .deb file
I’ve put a .deb file for the mac software here (this is [...]
January 18, 2007 – 12:51 am
Use mp3splt to break up an mp3 file according to the break points contained in a cue file. To install mp3splt open a terminal window and enter the following:
sudo aptitude install mp3splt
To split an mp3 file named “music.mp3″ using a cue file named “music.cue” issue the following in a terminal window:
mp3splt -c music.cue music.mp3
Links:
Mp3splt Homepage
Music [...]
January 17, 2007 – 6:54 pm
The tray icon for Opera can be hidden by launching Opera with the switch “-notrayicon”. To do this, open a terminal window and enter the following:
opera -notrayicon
Opera will launch without an icon in the notification area. This works in ubuntu and kubuntu. An alternative method is to type Alt-F2 and enter “opera -notrayicon” into the [...]