Supposedly the “latest” version of iTunes – on Windows XP – now, when I rip a song off of a CD, it asks me to “Import Using:”_______ Encoder. My choices are AAC, AIFF, Apple lossless, MP3, or WAV. What’s the differences?
I’ve been using AAC, but am wondering if that’s why the playback of the songs from my library sometimes “skip” (like a damaged record). And sometimes they don’t…
My previous version of iTunes never had this option. And I never had playback problems.
Also, the current version doesn’t transfer the track names and artist to the library. I have to manually insert the information over “Track 07”, etc… Can I change a setting to eliminate this?
I need a sed script to find all timecode entries example 01:07:36:00 and change the the 3rd : into . For all instances of this pattern in the file
Change xx:xx:xx:xx to xx:xx:xx.xx
Thanks in advance!
Kid3 2.3 (KDE Sound Application) If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack and WMA files (e.g. full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you are looking for.
With Kid3 you can:
– Edit ID3v1.1 tags
– Edit all ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 frames
– Convert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tags
– Edit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, AIFF and WAV files
– Edit tags of multiple files, e.g. the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.
– Generate tags from filenames
– Generate tags from the contents of tag fields
– Generate filenames from tags
– Rename and create directories from tags
– Generate playlist files
– Automatically convert upper and lower case and replace strings
– Import from freedb2.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs, Amazon and other sources of album data
– Export tags as CSV, HTML, playlists, Kover XML and in other formats
changelog: Sat Mar 2 09:36:02 CET 2013 Urs Fleisch
* Release 2.3
* New:
+ Automatic batch import for multiple directories.
+ Import catalog number and release country from Discogs and
MusicBrainz.
+ Quick access tags are configurable for tag 2.
+ Setting for default file name to save cover art.
+ Select all in directory.
+ Apply text encoding.
+ Support Qt 5.0.
* Improved:
+ Better responsiveness when working with a huge number of files,
long operations can be aborted (filtering, renaming, expanding).
+ Support custom frame names in formats and imports.
+ Display accuracy and cover art URL for imports.
+ Added more unified frame types.
+ GUI and usability.
* Fixed:
+ Swapped mapping of too and enc for M4A files.
+ Compatibility of ID3v2.4.0 COMM frames with iTunes.
+ Do not remove spaces in Vorbis comment field names.
+ Crash and decoding for fingerprints with libav 9.1.
Mon Dec 3 11:09:12 CET 2012 Urs Fleisch
* Release 2.2.1
* Improved:
+ Updated Czech translation.
* Fixed:
+ Fixed selection of language and handbook with Qt 4.8.
Fri Oct 26 17:07:27 CEST 2012 Urs Fleisch
* Release 2.2
* New:
+ Option to load last opened file on startup.
+ Option to use locale for character conversion.
+ Support new features of TagLib 1.8: More ID3 frames, ID3v2.3,
tracker modules (MOD, S3M, IT, XM).
+ Support use of GStreamer instead of FFmpeg for Chromaprint decoding.
+ …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at KDE Apps
Over the years, TechSmith’s Camtasia has evolved from being the go-to program for software demonstrators to a full-featured education/information video tool. With version 8, Camtasia Studio ($299, 30-day free trial) has not only added new features—including multi-track video editing and embedded hyperlinks—but has been rewritten from the ground up with new optimized code and greater potential impact.
If you watch a YouTube video explaining how to edit in Photoshop, write in Word, or do anything else in a program, that video was very likely created with Camtasia Record, the original core function of Camtasia Studio. Capturing and showing screen-based activity, such as cursor movement, menu choices, and other interface interactions remains quite straightforward. Click the Record button, and everything you do on your computer monitor is recorded, until you click the Stop button. The results are quite smooth, even when capturing complex on-screen media. That’s because Camtasia’s new capture engine is optimized for high-definition video, and can now record at 30 frames per second. (Version 7 had a tendency to slow down to 5-10 frames per second.)
But once you get into the video editor, Version 8 is clearly an entirely new kind of program. The new multi-track interface can import video from other sources, including MP4, MPG, MPEG, WMV, MOV, SWF, BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, WAV, MP3, WMA and Zipped Library. (However, Camtasia Studio imports only one video and one audio track from a .mov file, rather than multiple tracks. Also, only SWF created from Jing or previous versions of Camtasia Studio can be imported.). You can even display several video windows in a single screen and have them play at the same time. You can name and group tracks. What’s more, batch edits such as animations, zoom/pan, and other effects can be applied to an entire group, saving lots of time and effort.
Camtasia Studio is now a multi-track video editor/creator, which can have several videos playing at once, with special effects (such as rotation) applied to the video windows.
The Canvas is no longer just a playback view of your project. You can now work directly with any object (including video windows) on the Canvas, clicking and dragging to resize and reposition. When dragging, alignment guides appear to help you line up elements to other objects. However, there’s no single-click command to resize a window that fills the canvas, which would be useful. Anything (video windows, graphics, callouts, etc.) on the canvas can be animated over time. In our tests, we were able to create some very slick visuals, such as applying a perspective angle to a video window, using the rotation control. Unfortunately, you can’t apply rotation with interactive clicks and drags, only through a dialog.
