Winko Erades van den Berg

How to install Ableton Live on Ubuntu

Ubuntu is my OS of choice, for more than one reason. With one of my hardware purchases (Korg Kaossilator 2s), I got a copy of Ableton Live 9 Lite. Running Qtractor, Sequencer64, and Harrison MixBus 5 on Ubuntu, I was wondering whether it was possible to run a beautiful product like Ableton Live 9 on Ubuntu. After some fiddling around I’ve found a way to get it working. In this article, I’ll explain how you can install Ableton Live on Ubuntu.

Batch convert M4A to MP3

M4A, is an audio coding format developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music. Late 2011 Apple made the codec available open-source and royalty-free. In this article, I’ll explain how you can easily convert M4A audio files to MP3 files from the terminal window.

Batch convert WEBM to MP3

WebM is an open, royalty-free, file container structure that can hold audio and video formats. Its audio streams are compressed with the Vorbis or Opus audio codecs. In this article I’ll explain how you can easily convert WEBM audio files to MP3 files from the terminal window.

Batch convert FLAC to WAV

Sometimes you might want to convert audio files from FLAC format to WAV format. In this article I’ll explain how you can easily do a batch conversion from FLAC to WAV from the terminal window.

Batch convert WAV to MP3

I mixdown and store my audio projects in WAV format. For several projects I needed to batch convert my WAV files to specific MP3 formats. In this article I’ll explain how you can do batch conversion from WAV to MP3 from the terminal window.