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Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:09:59 -0000

Great to hear! :)

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:03:33 -0000

Try typing "which lame" into your Terminal. That should output which path lame is installed at (if it was correctly added to the path).

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Tue, 30 May 2023 16:46:49 -0000

I don't have a Mac any more. Based on the error message, it sounds like "lame" either isn't installed, or is installed in a different directory. Verify that it's installed (e.g. if you type "lame" into the Terminal, it should work), and make sure to add the correct folder in your Automator config.

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:27:33 -0000

Awesome, glad it worked! :)

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 15:13:58 -0000

No guarantees, but try replacing the last argument with this, which should cut off the file extension prior to appending .mp3: "${f%.*}.mp3"

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 14:34:05 -0000

No worries, good luck ! :)

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 14:21:06 -0000

To clarify: You would set up the same Automator workflow as above, but replace the "lame" command and its options with the appropriate ffmpeg command. You'd still use "$f" as the placeholder for the filename, for example. It might be easiest to experiment with ffmpeg on the command line first until you find the right syntax, then move that over into the Automator script.

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 14:18:45 -0000

Got it. You should be able to use ffmpeg (which you can also install via Homebrew for example) to convert directly from M4A to MP3. But you might need to play with the settings to arrive at the options that result in the least amount of loss. This might be a good starting point: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wik...

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:38:17 -0000

I'm not using OSX any more so won't be able to try this. But I don't think Lame can read M4A files. You may need to use a different tool first to convert your M4A files to WAV or similar, and then convert those files to MP3. (Or just keep them as M4A? Both M4A and MP3 are lossy formats, and I'm guessing you'll incur additional loss by converting from one to the other. Most apps should support both M4A and MP3, so perhaps just stick with M4A if that's what you already have?)

Re: DigitalHobbit's RPG Blog

digitalhobbit — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:11:21 -0000

Just a test comment. Ignore. :)

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:27:07 -0000

Can you post a screenshot of your Automator script?

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:50:51 -0000

I haven't tried this, but you should be able to add a line like this right underneath the "/usr/local/bin/lame" line:

rm "$f"

Having said that, this would delete the file even if the lame command unexpectedly returns an error for some reason. You can probably make this more robust by checking the return code, but I don't have that code ready off the top of my head.

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 10:33:40 -0000

Ah, got it.
I haven't tried it (not much of an Automator expert...), but you may be able to use the Choose From List action along with a script to provide the list options, like this:
http://stackoverflow.com/qu...

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Sun, 21 Aug 2016 00:19:26 -0000

You can specify the bitrate / VBR as a parameter for lame. My example uses "-V 2", which generates high (but not highest) quality VBR files (0=highest/biggest, 9=lowest/smallest).

You can pass "-b 128" or other values for specific bitrates.

Re: Hands-on guide to customizing the Novation Circuit

digitalhobbit — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:02:10 -0000

Great article, thanks.

I tend to use my Circuit to generate ideas, which I then import into my DAW as MIDI for further editing. I wrote a little script to simplify this process: https://github.com/digitalh...

In case this is useful for anyone with a similar workflow...

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:54:20 -0000

I haven't upgraded to El Capitan yet, so no idea. But it looks like many people are reporting issues with existing Automator scripts in El Capitan that appear to be resolved by recreating the script from scratch. Maybe give that a shot?

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:31:48 -0000

Are you using the same settings as in the screenshot? For me, it replaces the .wav extension with .mp3.

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 16:28:45 -0000

Fixed the screenshot.

Re: Why the lack of Alias/Ghost clip functionality? - DigitalHobbit's Music Blog

digitalhobbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:33:33 -0000

Good point about Reason (and other DAW's) developers being software developers themselves. Not sure about them not thinking like electronic musicians, though. Reason was originally purely for electronic music, it didn't even have audio support until Propellerhead integrated Record. And I believe Ableton Live is primarily used for electronic music.

I ended up pulling the trigger on Bitwig. It's not perfect (and the lack of alias clips annoys me), but I really like it in many other ways. And I have to agree with Morten about Logic somehow not being that inspiring, even though it has most of the features I'm looking for. Haven't had much time to really dig into Bitwig yet, though.

I did end up emailing their support team to find out whether alias clips are on their roadmap. Based on their response, this feature has at least been discussed in the past and they like the idea, although it sounds like they have more pressing priorities. But I'm cautiously optimistic that it might eventually make its way into the product...

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:17:37 -0000

Looks very useful, thanks for the tip! Does xAct have context menu integration as well, so I can simply right-click on a file in order to transcode it?

Re: Hacking the D-Link DNS-321 NAS

digitalhobbit — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:36:00 -0000

I'm pretty sure the owner of the original wiki simply decided that they didn't want to maintain it any more, and you're seeing a parked domain.

The best up-to-date resource I was able to find is this website: http://nas-tweaks.net/

In fact, I just used this blog post (which contains download links and instructions) to upgrade my fun_plug to the latest version (0.7).

http://nas-tweaks.net/371/h...

Re: http://music.digitalhobbit.com/post/13666964867

digitalhobbit — Sun, 27 May 2012 13:03:14 -0000

Lame doesn't know how to handle m4a files. It is designed to convert wav files to mp3.

You should be able to use another tool (such as "faad2", which seems to have a Homebrew package available as well) to convert your m4a files to wav, and then use "lame" to convert those to mp3.

You could either create a separate Automator script to convert m4a to wav, or you could make your existing script smarter: You can probably check the file extension and only if it's m4a, first run the file through "faad2" before feeding the result to "lame".

Re: My new iMac

digitalhobbit — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:38:41 -0000

Thanks, it's been working out great.

Re: Building a Twitter Filter With Sinatra, Redis, and TweetStream

digitalhobbit — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:12:39 -0000

Glad to hear that, thanks Josh.

Re: New iFrames Facebook Page App With Fan Gate Option – from Wildfire

digitalhobbit — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:35:08 -0000

Facebook announced (http://developers.facebook.... that starting on March 11, you will no longer be able to add the Static FBML app to any new pages.