Parcellite 1.0, PuddleTag 0.10.0 [WebUpd8 PPA Updates]

2 quick updates in the WebUpd8 PPAs:

Parcellite 1.0

Parcellite 1.0 - a well-known clipboard manager, - has been uploaded to our Parcellite PPA. Parcellite can be used as usual - running in the notification area:

Or launching it via keyboard shortcut:

Parcellite 1.0 changelog:

• New icon
• Moved newline to after elipsizing
• Added right-click delete.
• Added history location
• Added search as you type
• Added Data Size limt

Install Parcellite in Ubuntu using the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/parcellite
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install parcellite

Puddletag 0.10.0

PuddleTag is an awesome mp3tag-like audio tag editor for Linux. The latest version - 0.10.0 - has been uploaded to the Puddletag WebUpd8 PPA.

Puddletag 0.10.0 changelog:

• Added cover art support for all formats (except ASF)
• Added loading master releases in the Discogs.com tag source
• For ID3 tags, UFID frames are now only loaded if the data can be decoded to UTF8
• MusicBrainz artist search retrieves 100 albums by default
• The initial reading of a directory can be canceled now

Install Puddletag in Ubuntu using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/puddletag
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install puddletag

Both Parcellite and Puddletag are also available in the main WebUpd8 PPA - you can use this PPA to install all the applications we maintain by using a single PPA.

Split Single Lossless Audio Files To Flac Or mp3 Using A Nautilus Script

Some music players like gMusicBrowser (and many others) can't read .cue files so you may want to split those single lossless audio files into multiple flac or mp3 files.

There is a tool for that called gCue2Tracks but it didn't work that well in the test I ran today: to split to mp3 it firstly converts the files to .wav and only then to mp3 which takes a lot of time; I've tried to use it to split an .ape file to mp3 with a 320 kbps quality (disabled vbr) yet the converted mp3s were 110 kbps; and finally it fails to convert to wv which probably means it doesn't work the other way around either.

Because of the two reasons above, WebUpd8 reader CokiDVD has created a nautilus script which can split single lossless audio files (ape, flac, wavpack) by .cue file into flac or mp3 (320kbps or 192kbps). Further more, the script also adds tags to the new files so all the resulting flac or mp3 files will have the artist, album, title and genre tags set up automatically.

Install the packages required by the script

The script requires some packages to be installed to be able to split loseless audio files as well as Zenity for the GUI. Install the dependencies in Ubuntu by using the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:adrian-m-benson/ppa #required for a newer shntool to fix a bug with wavpack
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flacon/ppa #required for MAC package
sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install shntool cuetools flac wavpack lame mp3info zenity mac

Download and install the script

To download and "install" the script, use the following commands:

cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
wget http://webupd8.googlecode.com/files/splitlossless.tar.gz
tar -xvf splitlossless.tar.gz && rm splitlossless.tar.gz
chmod +x "Split Lossless"

If you want to set it up manually, download the script from HERE.

Now to use it, simply right click a single losless audio file (.ape, .flac or .wv) and select Scripts > Split Lossless. At this point, a window will pop-up asking you to select the .cue file for that lossless audio file - select it and you can then chose the audio format in which to split the file (flac or mp3).

Thanks to CokiDVD for the script!

See also: Split APE and FLAC Files in Ubuntu and Add Tags by Cue File

How to pronounce Linux ?

My friend once asked me how you pronounce the word Linux. While I have heard the way it is pronounced from the mouths of numerous Linux users to be certain how you correctly pronounce it, I have felt it would be nice to hear it being pronounced by the father of Linux himself - Linus Torvalds.

It seems Linus Torvalds has tackled this question and has even created an audio of him pronouncing Linux. Paul Sladen has uploaded an audio file on his site, in which Linus is heard pronouncing the word Linux. Take it from me, almost 99.9% of Linux users pronounce it right the first time. But still if you are doubtful ...