Posts Tagged ‘lame’

m4a2mp3

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

m4a2mp3 - convert AAC to MP3. Uses Perl, LAME and faad. Semi-gracefully converts weird iTunes genres to ID3v2, or to “Other” if it’s something else. Uses lame’s new VBR settings, so you end up with an MP3 not massively bigger than the source M4A.

PS: broke the 8000 tunes on the Firefly server …

why imperial units must die

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

If you’ve ever tried to work with emission coefficients given by the US DOE in “pounds CO2 per million Btu”, you get to feeling this way.