Absolutely Baching https://absolutelybaching.com ♬♪ A Voyage Around My Ears ♬♪ Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:12:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://absolutelybaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/logo.png Absolutely Baching https://absolutelybaching.com 32 32 Work in Progress: Semplice Version 2 https://absolutelybaching.com/work-in-progress-semplice-version-2/ https://absolutelybaching.com/work-in-progress-semplice-version-2/#respond Mon, 18 Mar 2024 11:08:25 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=26039 It's finally time to mention what I've been up to for the past couple of months: re-writing Semplice, my digital music file manager. It's the tool that lets you tag your FLACs, volume boost them, merge them into 'SuperFLACs' (and split them back out into per-track FLACs if you prefer), convert them into MP3s or […]

]]>
https://absolutelybaching.com/work-in-progress-semplice-version-2/feed/ 0
Giocoso Version 3.05 Now Released https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-version-3-05-now-released/ https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-version-3-05-now-released/#respond Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:45:50 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25916 Another week, another minor Giocoso update! This time, it's a new countdown timer. There has always been a pause between 'plays', user-configurable by setting the 'Pause between plays in a cycle' to something when editing the Giocoso configuration file: As you see here, I've set my 'pause between plays' to be 5 seconds. That means […]

]]>
https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-version-3-05-now-released/feed/ 0
Giocoso Tips https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-tips/ https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-tips/#respond Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:09:12 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25868 I just thought I'd show you how I run Giocoso on my main desktop these days: see the screenshot at the left. That's just a picture of KDE's default terminal, Konsole, running in 'split view' mode. Open Konsole, click the Split View button at the top of the program area to obtain the drop-down menu […]

]]>
https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-tips/feed/ 0
Further Giocoso News https://absolutelybaching.com/further-giocoso-news/ https://absolutelybaching.com/further-giocoso-news/#respond Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:00:11 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25840 Version 3.04 of Giocoso has just been released. It's a small bug fix and a minor addition. Dealing with the bug fix first: Giocoso has always checked that, if you say you're using a database called (say), classical_music.db, a file of that name actually exists in the appropriate folder on your hard disk. If it […]

]]>
https://absolutelybaching.com/further-giocoso-news/feed/ 0
Is AccurateRip Accurate? https://absolutelybaching.com/is-accuraterip-accurate/ https://absolutelybaching.com/is-accuraterip-accurate/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2024 10:09:51 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25807 I mentioned last time that when ripping an audio CD to digital files, it's important to know that this optical drive reads the first audio sample from (say) sample 103, whereas that optical drive reads the same first audio sample from sample 6. The inability to precisely and accurately read the first audio sample from, […]

]]>
https://absolutelybaching.com/is-accuraterip-accurate/feed/ 2
Ripping Yarns https://absolutelybaching.com/ripping-yarns/ Tue, 06 Feb 2024 17:54:40 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25781 Down the rabbit hole we go! I wanted to rip a new CD I purchased recently, shown at the left, of the reconstructed Elgar 3rd Symphony. Prestoclassical had the physical CD listed at £5.75, where the FLAC download was £8.04 -which, by the by, is a very oddly specific number!- so I went for the […]

]]>
Cataloguing Schubert Symphonies https://absolutelybaching.com/cataloguing-schubert-symphonies/ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 21:22:46 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25758 Schubert's symphonies are surprisingly tricky things to catalogue correctly, although as someone who hasn't exactly been been a huge a fan of the man or his works, it's taken me quite a long time to realise the extent of the problem! I noticed it today, though, as Giocoso decided to randomly select Schubert for a […]

]]>
Giocoso Version 3.03 Released https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-version-3-03-released/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 17:25:08 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25671 Another tiny bug-fix in Giocoso has been released, bumping the program version to 3.03. This time, it's a very minor correction to the way the program pauses and resumes music playback: if no music was being played when the pause request is made, then the program would output nasty-looking (but ultimately harmless) error messages from […]

]]>
Mission Accomplished! https://absolutelybaching.com/mission-accomplished/ Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:04:09 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25605 My turn-of-the-year project to move this website off a vintage 2012 server running Ubuntu onto a slightly-less-vintage 2019 server running TrueNAS Core (an 'appliance' built on top of FreeBSD) is now complete. What's more, there's a backup of it running on a TrueNAS Scale server (another 'appliance' built on top of Debian), on a server […]

]]>
Giocoso Version 3.02 Released https://absolutelybaching.com/giocoso-version-3-02-released/ Wed, 10 Jan 2024 14:56:56 +0000 https://absolutelybaching.com/?p=25569 A relatively small, but nevertheless significant, enhancement to Giocoso has just been released, bringing the program up to Version 3.02. To understand the new update, you first have to understand the specifics of how Giocoso makes a random selection of a recording to play. It's a two-stage affair: first, a composer is selected at random; […]

]]>