Articles tagged “music”

Small D3.js exercise to draw a circle of fifths diagram

For the saxophone music classes I'm taking, I have some exercises to play along with Charlie Parker records. Because that Bird plays pretty fast, it helps to slow things down a bit. I started with manually slowing down the tempo with Audacity, but soon I couldn't suppress the itch to …

In a previous post I listed some options for audio data manipulation (conversion of format, sample rate, bitrate, trimming, etc), with SoX, MPlayer and FFmpeg. The obvious question is now: which one is best?

The obvious answer is: it depends. Several factors play a role in defining "the best": what …

In my day job, I regularly have to convert/transcode/re-encode audio data from one format to another. Because I typically have to do this in batch jobs, I'm mostly dealing with command line tools (on Linux) like Lame, SoX (Sound eXchange), MPlayer and FFmpeg. Having a cheat sheet of …

At work, I'm trying out BeatRoot, an application written in Java, for its BPM estimation capabilities. The data set I'm working with is encoded in MP3 format and getting this Java tool to work with the MP3 data was not an easy ride.

Java does not support MP3 en/decoding …

I'm a happy Amarok user, using it for playing/browsing/querying my music collection, but this weekend I encountered a problem: Amarok didn't start anymore. When I launched Amarok (version 1.3.1, that is) from the command line I got the following error:

$> amarok
amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp..
amaroK …

Today I bothered to intall the Last.fm player just to give it a try. The installation (on my Kubuntu 5.10 Linux laptop) was very easy. I just downloaded a tarball with the Linux binary from the Last.fm player download page and extracted it to a local folder …