Something new every day...

Some time ago, I ran across a bunch of audio files in .flac format, which is a "lossless" format (as opposed to formats that only closely approximate the original sound, such as .mp3, the idea being that we've all burned our eardrums out by blasting our iPods into our earbuds at full volume, and therefore could not tell the difference). The files were for entire CDs, which was convenient enough, from a certain perspective, but also a but awkward to use.

It turns out my tablet can play .flac files, and it also turns out that given an associated file with a .cue extension (a text file that indicates where tracks start and end), there's software out there that will split up one large file into the requisite number of small files.

In other news, it turns out there is a version of Bit Torrent Sync for linux (and specifically, a version that will run on the Raspberry Pi). I have not gotten the setup completely squared away as yet, but the result will be interesting to see, because there are certain files that make sense to store in a personal cloud, and there are others that only make sense to store "elsewhere" (in the sense of a traditional backup).