20090618 flac

From s5h.net

Some things just work really well. Flac/lame and mpg123 certainly do.

flac -d 03.\ The\ White\ Stripes\ -\ My\ Doorbell.flac -c | lame - - | mpg123 -

How quaint is that?

Bash is pretty awesome too of course, sometimes I think that bash, vim, mutt and screen are the heart of UNIX. Sure, the system would work without the above, but would it be the same? Windows would work the same without explorer, geoshell for example can cater for most of it, but it wouldn’t be the same. Remove office (outlook) and you’ve lost a large portion of it’s compatibility, remove rdesktop and again there’s other parts of functionality that people are accustomed to.