Long-form Essays and Reviews
Music-related Software
I’ve written the following programs to help you obtain accurate rips of your classical CDs, to tag the resulting digital files accurately and effectively and to periodically check those files to ensure their continuing integrity and accuracy. For many years, I used the name ‘Dizwell’ in connection with anything technical that I wrote, so that name persists in the names of some of these utilities. All are shell scripts, so their contents can be examined before running them, in case you don’t trust me! All are intended for use on Linux, though the CD Tagger can be run on Windows if you configure things on Windows appropriately beforehand. Click on each link to obtain the relevant script and to see an article explaining the use of each one.
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Classical CD Ripper (Linux) – accurate, command-line Audio CD ripper
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Classical CD Tagger (Linux) – command-line utility to tag ripped audio files with appropriate metadata
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Classical CD Tagger on Windows – command-line utility to tag ripped audio files with appropriate metadata for Windows
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Dizwell Tag Cleaner (Linux) – command-line utility to clean up the metadata tags associated with FLAC audio files
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Dizwell FLAC Checker (Linux) – command-line utility to check that a FLAC file hasn’t been corrupted over time