Ever since I wrote the post about listening to FLACs in iTunes I had received quite a few responses indicating public’s general interest in the topic. And while I tried to keep the instructions simple, it was still not quite… Mac-like (damn you Jobs, how spoilt hath we become).
So, to celebrate my weblog being moved to a dedicated host, and after two sleepless nights, I humbly present to you Fluke, a Mac approach to listening to FLACs. Download, install and use. No moving files around, dragging libraries or following stupid instructions by someone who thinks he’s funny.
I’ve written out a pretty clear how-to on Fluke’s main page, but to sum it all up, all you really have to do is download and install the thing, and open your FLACs with it. Or just drag them onto Fluke’s icon.
Let me know how you like it, and make sure to leave a comment if it acts up. Not too complicated a program to act up but it is my first effort.
I’ve been so busy with all sorts of work lately that I’m hardly finding time to update this place. No, I don’t want to abandon it. On the contrary. I even gave the design a bit of a facelift! What I’m thinking though, is perhaps I should post articles on everything I do in general.
Music composing is my favourite hobby which, unfortunately, I can hardly dedicate time to as of late. Most of the time is generally spent on web design, illustration work, and photography (speaking of that, I gotta put up a website with my work on there for you check out as well). Most recently I’ve been helping out with the graphics for Box O’Deals, an eBay store my friend has set up which focuses on deals (duh) and more importantly bundling them together for even crazier discounts. The situation will get better overall though — I am planning to dedicate regular hours to music, get it into a habit so to speak.
It’s like this — I have around 3-4 instrumental electronic tracks which exist in the form of short pieces in Logic that are just waiting around to be expanded into full tracks, about 2-3 compositions which are full length already but just need touching up, and 2 different versions of the same track we recorded with Rachael for Coast Green over a year ago that I’m yet to work on. The latter in particular is somewhat of a curse, since it’s a track that has pretty much imploded from its own weight: in total we have recorded at least 2 hours of various vocal takes. Most of them are for harmonizing, as well as some special FX we have recorded outdoors, weird percussions and samples of objects outdoors and around the house that make for interesting noises to be used in the composition. And, of course, the sheer amount of that recorded material is precisely what makes me keep putting it all off. At least I backed it all up a few times so I can actually get to finishing it up before my hard drives die. Not funny, as it happened to my previous HDD. Though I don’t like any of those unfinished tunes anymore anyway. Or that’s what I want to think at least.
Anyway, if anybody cares to answer, let me know:
Do you think posts unrelated to audio would be appropriate or should I keep a lower post count but all related to music?
P.S. A post on Logic Studio coming up!
