I began receiving this error in Ubuntu (after upgrading to Hardy 8.04 I think) whenever I tried to use the sox or play commands. Turns out the solution is pretty simple, sox had just lost its available format libraries. sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-all
Monthly archives: August 2008
I’m not really a fan of any of the political alternatives either, but… common, this is the Liberal Party leader? Michael Coren has an entertaining report from a recent appearance Dion made on his television show. Within the first 10 minutes of the discussion he made several mentions of God… […]
I’ve recorded and uploaded a new song – Wings. [audio:http://audio.blaise.ca/songs/wings/wings-0.2.mp3|titles=Wings (0.2)] This is the first original tune I’ve recorded using Ardour in Ubuntu Studio (GNU/Linux)! I’m excited (in the geekiest way possible). I’ve decided that I have no interest in recording albums or EPs or whatever at the moment, so […]
My mom has been uploading photos (or sending photos to me to upload) to Flickr from Beijing. She’s at the Olympics, working on the Canadian core medical team. There are some great shots! (Unfortunately, none are from competition.) Those are just a few of my favourites. View the whole Beijing […]
I recently stumbled upon the Ubustu Feed when I began learning Ardour. They have a great tutorial on how to sync Hydrogen with Ardour: This tutorial will show you how to sync up the digital audio workstation, Ardour, and the advanced drum machine, Hydrogen. This will allow you to have […]
I recently setup a Facebook musician page for Robyn Dell’Unto. We ran into one really annoying problem importing her blog posts from her MySpace blog. As Robyn described it, my only issue with the notes is that they go all squidgy when there’s punctuation in the title. which, frankly, embarrasses […]
I woke up to this around 3:50am. A propane depot went up around Keele/Wilson. I felt it at Lawrence/Bathurst. 😐 (Photos from Rannie Turingan.) Update: video here
I’m listening to my music library on random right now, and a song just came on that was playing on my digital audio player when I was arriving by bus at the Mathausen Concentration Camp a few years ago. When it started to play on the bus then, it sent […]