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freac
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Did I make a mistake for purchasing music from iTunes Store?
Seconding basically everything that's been said here, but should you ever find yourself in need of a good file converter, I like and use fre:ac (www.freac.org), an open source Swiss army knife for audio formats.
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Hi-SP 256kbps ATRAC3+ or MD-SP 292kbps ATRAC
That's a lot of steps! I believe there's FLAC rippers for Tidal, that may make it easier to use WebMD or SonicStage. I use https://www.freac.org/ to convert from FLAC (which I rip my CDs in) to WMA Lossless (which SonicStage can use) - Web Minidisc can use FLAC directly, as well.
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A way to get CD metadata and artwork
You might want to use a tool like https://www.freac.org for the conversion.
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Could use some help dumping CDs.
I use fre:ac personally - https://www.freac.org
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Fan's! Of SUBLIME! What!? Would? Be The Best Way To Go About Doing This!?...
A lot of bootlegs are already ripped and available. wondering if the ones you have are the ones that are already available. you can download https://www.freac.org/ and rip em.
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FLAC to MP3 conversion
https://www.freac.org/ my go-to for a loooong time
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Hi-SP - any regular users? Only recently gpt this HiMD and today I'm making my first recording, hi-sp via optical from a cd player.
What I was doing when I want 352k AT3+ files was to use https://www.freac.org/ to convert FLACs to WMA Lossless files which SonicStage 4.3 can read, then hook up the HiMD machines, pick the songs/album/whatever, and transfer them at 352k. It does the transcode on the fly but you can pick "fast" vs. "quality" modes, either should really be good but I did "quality" because the 10-year-old computer I'm doing it on should be 2-5x faster than an average computer in 2007 when SS4.3 was released so it's not that big of a deal.
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Newbie Hi-MD Question (Roast Anticipated)
If you need to convert FLAC/AAC/ALAC/whatever to a format SonicStage supports (LPCM WAV or lossless WMA) - you can use a tool like the Free Audio Converter (FRE:AC).
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Transfers are not allowed. [SonicStage]
For lossless or high-resolution audio, I use a tool called FREAC to convert FLAC/ALAC and anything else SonicStage itself can't use to WMA Lossless, which gets you both proper metadata support and CD quality lossless files.
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MP3 converters. What do you guys use
fre:ac does pretty much everything you could want: https://www.freac.org/
Open-Shell-Menu
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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone
I've been very happy happy with https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu as a Start Menu replacement. If ads have rolled out to my Windows install, I wouldn't even notice.
- Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest?
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Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS
Whenever I set up a new computer for older family members, despite it being windows 11, I always install open shell[1] and retro bar[2]. Between the two, I've made the operating system look very close to Windows XP visually, and they always appreciate it.
[1] https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu
[2] https://github.com/dremin/RetroBar
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Window Manager / DWM replacement?
There's Open-Shell but it's not exactly a full WM replacement.
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I turned the Windows start icon into Elysia's signet!
Hi yall, I used Open-Shell to change the icon.
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How do I remove the recommended thing in the start menu, or add more space for pinned apps?
There is also Open Shell, a free and open source tool which performs a similar function.
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What is a piece of software that you need but doesn't exist?
I wish so bad there is a port (a fork) of the Legacy Kickoff start menu for Windows: https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/issues/1083
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Looking for a specific 'subgenre' of digital minimalism - "Retro digital"?
Classic Start Menu
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Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?
I use Open Shell (fork of Classic Shell) as a replacement to original Start Menu. This gives me full control over what appears in start menu - no results from internet, animated tiles, etc (I am on Win 10 though, from what I read the Win 11 is supported, but not yet officially [1]). It could be a solution to the ads appearing in start menu.
[1] https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu/issues/1564
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I missed the old windows so i tried to recreate it
Looks like you're going for an XP theme. May I suggest using open-shell to skin the taskbar, start menu, and start button if you wanna take that extra step? You can also find the taskbar skin and start button here. Also, I would remove the search bar, task view button, and news & interest area of the taskbar just to bring things together. This is all just a suggestion, you don't have to if you don't want to.
What are some alternatives?
AaxAudioConverter - Convert Audible aax files to mp3 and m4a/m4b
ExplorerPatcher - This project aims to enhance the working environment on Windows
whipper - Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed
RetroBar - Classic Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista taskbar for modern versions of Windows
Auto-M4B-Tool - Script to automate using m4b-tool to convert recently added mp3 audiobook folders to a single chapterized m4b.
ThisIsWin11 - The real PowerToys for Windows 11
audacity - Audio Editor
TaskbarX - Center Windows taskbar icons with a variety of animations and options.
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
Fluent-Metro - A modern, highly customizable Start menu skin for Open-Shell.
ESP32-audioI2S - Play mp3 files from SD via I2S
TileIconifier - Creates tiles for most Windows 8.1 and 10 start menu icons