Pulseaudio woes

I have an ASRock 890FX Delux4 motherboard that I was having a damned of a time getting the audio to work on in Ubuntu 12.10.

The solution turned out to be that pulseaudio didn't have the device selected as the output, but that was completely not discoverable via the UI.

I had to install an extra program to tell pulse to use an output channel other then what it was using by default.

sudo apt-get install pavucontrol

 This was the ticket I needed, selected the correct output for sound and viola! magic.

Split Lossless Audio and tag it.

Nearly all this information was found on the blog:http://aidanjm.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/split-lossless-audio-ape-flac-wv...

The steps below are the steps that I follow to split my own audio that I find still in a single lossless file (usually .wav).

sudo apt-get install cuetools shntool flac
cuebreakpoints sample.cue | shnsplit -o flac sample.wav
cuetag sample.cue split-track*.flac

James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem fame on NPR

I've seen LCD twice already this summer and their newest release (This is Happening) is one of my current obsessions. Nice interview on N.P.R. with Mr. Murphy about a lot of things relating to music. Take a listen.