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    [ubuntu] Re: Abour ripping music CD to mp3 files

    That was indeed a good guy who started that long thread :)
  2. Re: Cannot launch mplayer from startup script (alsa lib unable to open slave).

    Perhaps use elevated privileges and run the following command:



    mplayer -ao help


    This should tell you the audio output devices available to MPlayer under root or sudo...
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    [SOLVED] Re: TOR Will Not Start in CLI

    It may have no bearing on your issue but are you running the installation in a full root environment? Interesting to see the results if you install as an ordinary user with sudo...
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    Re: How many of you completely switched to Linux?

    Retirement from the work force has been good for me in many ways but it has especially meant for me that I don't use Windows daily any more. Although I have been a Linux user for many, many years at...
  5. Thread: Motherboards

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    Re: Motherboards

    My current build (now a couple of years old) has an MSI MEG X399 CREATION; absolutely no issues at all...
  6. Re: Embed subtitles in video using yt-dlp

    Unfortunately that site and all of its videos seems to be behind a geographical block, not available in my country...
  7. [ubuntu] Re: ERROR: Postprocessing: ffprobe and ffmpeg not found

    That does seem a little odd. It would be interesting to see your $PATH statement:



    echo $PATH


    as well as the results of a generic search for ffmpeg:
  8. Re: Embed subtitles in video using yt-dlp

    Have you experimented with the following yt-dlp option?



    --embed-subs Embed subtitles in the video (only for mp4, webm and mkv videos)


    If...
  9. [SOLVED] Re: which 'locate' command is the correct one?

    It looks like you have found what you are after but can I say that time with the 'find' command is time very well spent. This command has has possibilities of usage way beyond applications such as...
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    [SOLVED] Re: About Linux command line

    This can be accomplished reasonably elegantly as follows:



    sox *.wav -t wav - | lame -V 2 - output.mp3


    I am not sure about the file ordering of the sox command though, perhaps this is not...
  11. [SOLVED] Re: ....cool way to record your fave radio station for your mp3 player with wget ...

    Hi Shan!! Again it has been a while..

    You could also consider using FFmpeg, which certainly looks a bit cleaner than your vlc example although perhaps not as cool as the wget usage:



    sleep...
  12. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    Nice to see some closure to a thread that started some time ago :). My ears are not good for such things but I am impressed by the quality of the audio produced by exhale. Exciting to be involved too...
  13. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    So after some fiddling around I can see that playback of xHE-AAC will be possible in most players that use Ubuntu's gstreamer1.0-fdkaac package. The most satisfactory of these applications for me was...
  14. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    I am retired now so I might take some time to download an iso of the Hirsute Hippo and have a go with the fdkaac gstreamer and see if I can coax xHE-AAC playback out of RhythmBox. I am also not a...
  15. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    Hopefully all is sorted? If not I have placed my fully patched up abcde here for a short time:

    https://www.andrews-corner.org/tmp/abcde

    This can actually be placed in $HOME/bin and after reboot...
  16. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    If you modified abcde before (by patching for exhale) there is nothing more required, the newer patch does not add anything different than the previous patch, just lines are changed to follow git...
  17. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    Interestingly enough it looks like the next version of Ubuntu has already done this:

    https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/gstreamer1.0-fdkaac
  18. Thread: xHE-AAC

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    [SOLVED] Re: xHE-AAC

    I have just now updated the xHE-AAC patch to cover the latest git abcde and tested it all out and it ran very, very nicely! Also I have added an ~/.abcde.conf file for xHE-AAC:

    ~/.abcde.conf for...
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    Re: Most lightweight desktop?

    Your best bet would be Fluxbox, all the applications you mention work well with this while Fluxbox itself treads quite lightly on resources. I have been running Fluxbox on this system for many years...
  20. Thread: SSD help

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    [ubuntu] Re: SSD help

    I built my Threadripper system in June 2019:

    Building a Threadripper System for Slackware...
    https://www.andrews-corner.org/threadripper.html

    For this system I actually purchased 2 x Crucial...
  21. [ubuntu] Re: What's the best Ubuntu Video movie player?

    Cool guys use mpv with SMPlayer as frontend :)
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    Re: sending large picture files

    If you are keen to try the command line as others have suggested there is a very simple way to use imagemagick and resize your image based on the percentage point of your choice. For example to...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Convert problems

    Some discussion on this issue here...
  24. Re: Ffmpeg with libfdk_aac support for 20.04 LTS

    Interestingly enough hydrogenaudio still ranks fdkaac above FFmpeg's AAC encoder. Mind you the hydrogenaudio rankings have not been updated for some time. For best AAC under Linux however I believe...
  25. Re: SimpleScreenRecorder settings for best quality & for when quality doesn't matter

    This answer did not help at all?
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