How big is your media library? I have 4620 tracks in mine. Wondering what other folks have. I don't know where to get this info, if you're using the Default UI. In Columns UI, it's at the bottom left on the status bar.
I sincerely apologize, for being lax as a moderator. I will do better. I've just started a forum, unrelated to audio, so hopefully checking in with that place, will remind me to check in here as well. Gotta put checking in here on my daily to-do list. Thank you all for sticking around. More content is coming. See this post
Hey folks, here are links to the documentation for Foobar2000 and EAC.
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Foobar2000:Foobar2000#Using_foobar2000
https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Exact_Audio_Copy
This should get you started. They're not as newbie friendly as I'd like. I'm working on my own newbie friendly how-to, for both Foobar2000, and EAC. It's been on the back burner. But it will get done.
Post those tunes or albums!
Right now I"m listening to Norah Jones' Feels Like Home.
What tunes or albums are you playing?
I totally support free/open source software. A number of apps I use on Windows are FOSS. (GIMP, Gnucash, qBitTorrent, ONLYOFFICE are my current go to ones.
I do mix in proprietary apps, but this is usually because the equivalent open source app is not up to snuff in terms of usability. This is particularly true for audio engineering.
I use REAPER as my DAW.
On the consumer audio end of things I use foobar2000 and EAC an audio player and CD ripper. Both are freeware proprietary software. As far as customizability and CD ripping accuracy I haven't anything better than EAC.
On Windows, I take a practical approach to free open source software. If there's a great open source free software solution I'll pick that first. But if I have to pick a freewrare/freemium proprietary solution, I will do so if the user experience is better and the software is well developed.
Of course, the only way to tell if proprietary software is any good to is use it yourself or check forums/reviews for other people's experiences.
Wow so many MP3s that's impressive. I only have a measly 3, 000 or so FLAC files. I collect CDs. So most are rips from my collection. I used to have a fair amount of MP3s, but like a fool I had a box of hard drives with one of them full of MP3s from my first computer build. I assume the drive was dead so I had my case supervisor and or Mom take the box of hard drives to the E-Waste dump. Of course I regret that now. My parents might have held on to an MP3 player that I had in high school that would have contained the MP3s. So I've just asked my mom if she can find it at their place.
Anyways it's great just find another foobar2000 user. I've created a community for foobar2000 and EAC https://lemm.ee/c/eac_foobar2000. Feel free to join if you want to.
I'm autistic and I've always felt I had a certain gullibility. If I'm reading an article, and an argument sounds rational. I'm more likely to fall for it. Even if it contains a ton of bad premises. I'd like to think as I've gotten older and more mature, these kinds of things work less on me. But honestly I'm not sure.
As a disabled person who's visually impaired I totally agree with this!
Welcome to EAC & foobar2000. I created this community, to have a place where we could discuss these apps. I might expanded this community to all audio players/CD rippers soon. We'll see if it takes off. If Lemmy supports sticky threads, I'd like to have a weekly "What are you listening to" thread. Discussion of different audio codecs is welcome!! But please keep debate civil.
I'd like to keep this community music/audio focused. Please read the rules before posting. And have fun!! Digital audio is a wonderful hobby!!
Hi All,
Does anyone else use foobar2000 for their local music? I discovered it all the way back in middle school. I was a Winamp user back then. I checked it out briefly on a laptop I had. It's minimalism really intrigued me. Fast-forward to young adulthood, and it's one of the first pieces of software I install if I'm going to use Windows. I love the columns UI plugin. Can't use FB2K without it. The player just stays out of your way and does what it's supposed to do. No bloat, just great music.
I've decided to allow discussions on the ethics around piracy. How you obtain your music/media is your business. However, if debates/discussions get nasty and/or hostile I'll have to implement stricter rules. Feel free to discuss this in the comments.
I've used XFCE, Gnome, and MATE, I've found GNOME best for my accessibility needs. I has carrot tracking in it's screen magnifier. It works on certain apps. The thing is, I don't like GNOME's default workflow. I know it's possible to install an extension to make it more like MATE. I may dual-boot on my current machine and give it another shot. The other issue I have is that Orca, Linux's GUI screen reader doesn't highlight words. It's designed for totally blind Linux users.
I'd love to there's already a good write up by a blind user. However visually impaired users and those with chronic illnesses have needs that are a little different.
Years ago it looked like an accessible Linux desktop would be a thing. You had distros like Vinux. It was especially patched for the needs of disabled folks. I recall it being Ubuntu based. When I when I tried it I was very impressed. It had a fully accessible installer r screen magnification. This was back in the days of Gnome 2.
Unfortunately the MATE desktop has been neglected and as a result has neglected accessibility. Right now full screen magnification is done in a very hacky way by enabling compiz and using the enhanced desktop zoom plugin. One of the big problems with screen magnification under Linux is that except for it GNOME 42., There is no carrott tracking. I e. The screen magnifier does not track the cursor when one is typing. You have to manually move the mouse to keep your text from going off screen. This is simply ridiculous to put it frankly.
As far as the needs of chronically ill folk speech recognition is primary. We need a reliable speech recognition so that when we're having a bad pain day we can still write. And use our machine. Under Windows I've used dragon naturally speaking. The speech recognition is par none they're pretty much the standard in the industry. You install the software and after a short training it's are able to pull up MS Word and write with your voice seamlessly. Think of Dragon as the Photoshop of speech recognition. I totally love LibreOffice. I have installed on my machine now. The problem is it doesn't support the windows accessibility API. Or at least it didn't back in the XP days. Of course it does support the GNOME accessibility API. I've always had good luck getting orca to play nice with Libre office under Linux. Orca is something screen reader. However it's designed for totally blind folks.
I use ZoomText under windows. If the screen reader specifically designed for the visually impaired. It has a ton of great features. And it also gets the basics right. Is it proprietary well yes. It also cost a pretty penny. I got access to it and Dragon through a non-profit the center for accessible technology.
Sorry for the typos I wrote this on mobile.
Hey folks I just moved over from to Windows 11 from Linux I was running a mix of Manjaro and Ubuntu. Well I love Linux and I've been a Long Linux user, the accessibility for disabled folks is a mess under Linux to say the least. I felt I need to switch back to an OS with a better end user experience for disabled folks.
I had a friend help me build a new computer and the installation went great. The only thing they had to figure out was a power management issue where my USB hubs were being put to sleep. Causing the machine to drop my trackball or keyboard.
Once I figured that out and switched around some power settings everything has been rock solid as far as stability. It reminds me of the good old Windows 7 days. I care about privacy but I was and I was easily able to set the privacy settings to my liking. I use a local account. To my relief Windows 11 Windows went through a couple of updates and my privacy sayings don't appear to have changed.
I know Windows 10/11 tends to get a lot of crap but as long as you know what you're doing I think people can have a great experience.
Hi everyone thanks so much for accepting me. My disabilities include fibromyalgia, ROP (I was born at 24 weeks gestation.) I'm also autistic and have hyperacusis. I'm hoping to contribute to what looks like a wonderful community.
It's great to see other chronic illness suffers here. As I've noticed the broader disability community despite their best intentions can have a tendency to forget about us. I'm really encouraging thing was to hear an episode on Pushing Limits that covered chronic illness.
Hi Everyone, I'm new to Lemmy. I heard about it before the API drama with reddit. Reddit's decisions have given me the motivation I need to try out Lemmy. I'm really enjoying what I've seen. I've been able to find communities of interest pretty easily. I'm also on Mastodon, so I'm familiar with the way things are done on the fediverse.
My disabilities include Fibromyalgia, R.O.P (I was born at 24 weeks,) Hyperacusis, and I'm autistic. I'm glad to have found a disabilities community on my home Lemmy instance. Hoping to contribute.