Category: Audio / Logic / Music

Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]

the catch: when there is no audio jack inserted -> it will register as “audio output device” (usb-soundcard) by GNU Linux Debian X-D making file access impossible solution: attach a audio-jack cable: then it will show up and mount like […]

to recover the data: how to mount luks2 encrypted volume possibility: remove harddisk, attach to sata2usb adapter, then mount on different machine like this: # unlock encrypted harddisk udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb5 udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/ubuntu–vg-root Mounted /dev/dm-1 at /media/dpm/e8cf82c0-f0a3-41b3-ab28-1f9d23fcfa72 […]

in short: STAY AWAY FROM IT! all in all this mp3 player is a waste of resources and the user’s time (unless someone comes along and fixes the firmware X-D (but the playback problem could also be “in hardware”)) what […]

mocp –version This is : Music On Console Version : 2.6-alpha3 Built : Nov 27 2016 10:55:04 Compiled with : OSS ALSA JACK DEBUG Network streams resample Running on : Linux 4.9.0-13-amd64 x86_64 Author : Damian Pietras Homepage : http://moc.daper.net/ […]

Ever played SingStar on PS2? it is great fun! (for example on one’s birthday party?) there is a karaoke system for linux called: An open-source karaoke, band and dancing game where one or more players perform a song and the […]

preparations on terminal: detect your hardware: you can get old but well supported notebooks/laptops here like the dell latitude e4310 with this intel-spy-on-me wifi/bluetooth module on board: lshw |grep lue description: Bluetooth wireless interface product: DW375 Bluetooth Module capabilities: bluetooth […]

You probably now that Stephen Hawking (never got a Nobel Price) was on BigBang A LOT. And he writes to speech synthesis and eye-tracker. And he is giving hilarious funny interviews with this thing DECtalk DTC01… While also saying that AI […]

Crowd funding platforms are great – i love em. They actually do what Banks are supposed to do – get the money where it can build great products and foster innovation. problem: as more and more money flows through crowdfunding […]

some settings make pulseaudio startup muted. this is how you can solve the problem on: Debian 8.7 Linux debian 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u2 (2017-03-07) i686 GNU/Linux 1. checkout your control center -> Sound -> there is probably an “muted” […]

works like this: [cc lang=”bash” escaped=”true” width=”600″] # tested with uname -a Linux debian 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u3 (2016-07-02) i686 GNU/Linux cat /etc/debian_version 8.5 # compile ffmpeg from source apt-get -y install autoconf automake build-essential libass-dev libfreetype6-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev […]

All GUI programs are based/use streamripper. no gui/bash/terminal version: hostnamectl; # tested with Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-8-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 su – root; # become root apt update; apt install streamripper; Ctrl+D; # logoff root # […]

installing ffmpeg on debian is rather tricky (you will need to compile from source). under CentOS7 it is easy yum install ffmpeg and you can substitute avconv command with ffmpeg and the script just works the same. thanks to all […]

2021: update! the old Mumble App (Plumble) does not work well with Android v10 and higher. luckily, someone made an updated version called “Mumla”: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/se.lublin.mumla/ backup: https://dwaves.de/software/apps/Mumla_se.lublin.mumla.zip (sha512sum: e3d9f366a1c3895e24c051a96f6114a30d89713e3098de77a7716ff9187b0b47db58b98eaca3386ddfd09433cd3f1a3aa5a1e29043cb9d40cb280d966852b42e) (tested and works with LineageOS 17 / Android 10) what is great […]

Update: video series on GNU Linux Video Editing Eps 01: Video Editing with Linux Eps 02: Kdenlive Video Editor Reviewed Eps 03: Tips and Tricks to Manage Kdenlive’s Settings, Files and More. Eps 04: How to Get the Most Out […]

This also looks interesting. http://rm-mp3.org/ (untested!) here the tested workflow via VLC Player Export Stream wizard. It’s a two step process. 1. load stream in VLC export it as wav 2. convert wav to mp3 (e.g. via lamedrop (love it)) sorry for the […]