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HOW-TO: Get better audio quality when ripping CDs in Rhythmbox 0.12.8

By rsheaves | Published: May 4, 2010
So, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS was released last week and it shipped with Rhythmbox 0.12.8. I thought I’d provide an update to one of the more popular posts on this site: HOW-TO: Enable MP3 ripping in Sound Juicer 2.22.0, and blather on a bit about how you shouldn’t be ripping to MP3 in the first place [...]
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Moving Confluence from Windows to (Ubuntu) GNU/Linux

By rsheaves | Published: October 19, 2008
Recently, my company’s corporate wiki started to sputter. It isn’t that Atlassian Confluence itself is a dog, but when you load it with over 100K+ pages, hundreds of simultaneous users, many GBs of attachments in the DB, and try to run it on Windows 2003 Std and SQL Server 2000, things get rather dicey. (Add [...]
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HOW-TO: Enable MP3 ripping in Sound Juicer 2.22.0

By rsheaves | Published: September 20, 2008
As with most tasks in Linux involving proprietary or non-free multimedia formats, ripping to MP3 with Sound Juicer is not obvious to setup. So, here’s a quick recap of the steps I took to get things working as I wanted. YMMV. First things first: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my PC, having done [...]
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