From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:35:39 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Add MPD and replay gain posts.
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Add MPD and replay gain posts.
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diff --git a/posts/MPD.mdwn b/posts/MPD.mdwn
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+[MPD][] is a wonderful little music player daemon.  It's pretty easy
+to use, but there are always tricks to make things a bit more
+comfortable.
+
+* Calculating [[MPD playlist duration]].
+* Group-writable playlists with [[ACL]].
+* [[Replay gain]].
+
+[MPD]: http://mpd.wikia.com/
+
+[[!tag tags/fun]]
+[[!tag tags/linux]]
+[[!tag tags/tools]]
diff --git a/posts/MPD_playlist_duration.mdwn b/posts/MPD_playlist_duration.mdwn
index dc38dae..4177460 100644
--- a/posts/MPD_playlist_duration.mdwn
+++ b/posts/MPD_playlist_duration.mdwn
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-I use [MPD][] to organize and play my music, since it's a pretty thin
+I use [[MPD]] to organize and play my music, since it's a pretty thin
 layer over the directory structure I'd been using before.  MPD's
 playlists are stored in `/var/lib/mpd/playlists/` as [M3U][] files
 (one filename per line), so it easy to build your own tools to work
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ Note that, unfortunately, `%j` returns the day of the year in the
 range `[001,366]`, so an empty playlist would return `001 00:00:00`,
 not the `000 00:00:00` I'd like.  Oh well.
 
-[MPD]: http://mpd.wikia.com/
 [M3U]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3U
 [post]: http://repura.livejournal.com/59403.html?thread=156683
 
diff --git a/posts/Replay_gain.mdwn b/posts/Replay_gain.mdwn
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+Some songs are louder than others, and it's annoying to have to
+constantly tweak the volume knob to keep things at a reasonable level.
+Enter "replay gain".  You use a tool to go through your music and add
+tags marking how loud each song/album is, then you play them with
+something that understands the tags and adjusts the volume for you.
+Very convenient.  Robert Downes (Bobulous) has a [nice post with
+scripts for tagging FLAC files][post] (the heart of his scripts is
+`metaflac --add-replay-gain *.flac`).  Then just add
+
+    replaygain "album"
+
+to `/etc/mpd.conf` and restart `mpd`.  Voilà!
+
+[post]: http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/Replay-Gain-in-Linux.html