Music Trading
Pardon my appearance, but this section is definitely and perenially under construction. As soon as I can make time, you'll find here various tips and resources related to the mania of music collecting and digital audio in general.
I don't update this page very often, so some information may not be current..
Etree trader's database | Etree wiki | Setlists.com | Live Music Archive - all bands in the collection
Andrew Long's music trading list on Etree
Windows Software
Trader's Little Helper: A lighweight front-end for various encoding encoding/decoding applications. TLH will decode both flac and shn files to wav for burning to audio cd. It will also check or create md5 checksums and flac fingerprints. The current release (2.2.2 at time of writing) will also create torrent files. Free software.
Burrrn: No-frills burning software for writing DAO audio disks. Supports CD-Text as well as burning directly from mp3, mpc, ogg, aac, mp4, ape, flac, ofr, wv, tta, m3u, pls and fpl playlists and cue sheets. Free software.
Audio Tester: Tool for testing file integrity in MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack & Monkey's Audio files. If I remember correctly, it will do recursive checks on a directory tree. This used to be called Flac Tester. Free software.
Foobar2000: In my opinion the best music player for Windows. Native support for flac (and many other formats), but you'll need this plug-in for shorten files. Free software.
Exact Audio Copy (EAC): The premier extractor for Windows. Free software.
*NIX Software
Etree Scripts: command-line toolset written by Caleb Epstein. Can be used under Windows with CYGWIN. Free software
Grip: Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). It also provides an automated frontend for MP3 (and other audio format) encoders, letting you take a disc and transform it easily straight into MP3s. Internet disc lookups are supported for retrieving track information from disc database servers.Grip works with DigitalDJ to provide a unified "computerized" version of your music collection. Free software
*NIX players:xmms used to be my favorite, but I've had some issues in the recent past getting it to work with both flac and shorten, especially on 64-bit systems. On Ubuntu, rhythmbox works well. There is an excellent tutorial in the Ubuntu Forums by cozmiccharlie for installing xmms under Hardy with support for shorten and flac: nice stuff.
Happy trails!
- aol
