Audio Tag Tool is a metadata manager for Ogg Vorbis and MP3 files. The metadata it manages defines such information as Artist, Genre, Album, Track Title, and so on. These bits of information are often called “tags”, and some of the more robust tagging implementations (such as that employed by Ogg Vorbis) also support acoustic…
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Audacity
Audacity is a fantastic audio editor, that while a bit difficult to wrap your head around during the first few uses, offers immense potential for editing your audio files in a very clean package. Given that working with audio files is hardly a simple task, a moderate learning curve is acceptable (outside of the audio…
Nicotine
Peer-to-peer networks are everywhere these days, but they are rarely very social. Nicotine is a SoulSeek client, a network that differs from many because of its social interaction. It functions very much like IRC (especially allowing users to form rooms, usually centered around a genre of music, making it easier to find people with similar…
Grip
Grip is a CD ripper, and while the user interface is a bit confusing the first few times you use it, the functionality is undeniable. It handles in a single application everything you need to take the contents of those clunky compact discs into a much more compact, convenient format on your computer. Digital storage…
Mozilla Firefox
I first switched to Firefox as my primary web browser before the 1.0 release (around 0.6-0.7, if I recall) because it was an open-source alternative, and Mozilla itself was (and still is) a bit heavy for my taste. I was running on limited hardware, and memory wasn’t something I had excess of. The feature set…
Drivel
Drivel is a blog editor for the GNOME desktop (the default desktop on many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu), similar to Windows Live Writer in that it allows you to publish content to a blog from your desktop. It is compatible with self-hosted WordPress installations, which makes it a very convenient utility for Linux-loving bloggers. Drivel…
XChat
XChat is a graphical IRC Client with a GTK+ GUI. It has a look and feel like AmIRC for the Amiga. Special features include the mIRC extension DCC RESUME and mIRC color, multiple server/channel windows, dialog windows, and a plugin API. XChat is hands-down the most enjoyable IRC client I have ever used. It handles…
Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging client (they call it a “universal chat client”). It supports XMPP (Jabber & GTalk), AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and most other major instant messaging systems. It’s quite convenient being able to log into multiple accounts (with different protocols) simultaneously and chat with everyone from one interface….
