Convert to FLAC is a BASH shell script, and was originally written for use under Linux. It should, however, run under any OS that supports BASH.

Convert to FLAC currently supports the following input formats:

• Apple Lossless (ALAC) - requires alac and mp4info (for metadata) binaries
• FLAC (eg., for transcoding to a different compression ratio)
• Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP) - commonly found on DVD-Audio and Blu-ray discs; requires ffmpeg
• Monkey's Audio (APE) - requires mac and apeinfo (for metadata) binaries
• Shorten - requires shorten binary
• True Audio (TTA) - requires ttaenc binary
• WAVE
• WavPack - requires wvunpack binary
• Windows Media Audio Lossless (WMA) - requires ffmpeg

You can find the script on LegRoom.net and GitHub.

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1&1 IONOS has been a fairly early adopter to PHP 7 in their Shared Webhosting and provides regular updates to the latest version in every 7.x branch. However, for some reason the latest version available in the shell is runnning behind. This could get you into trouble, for example when using composer, where your desired package has a requirement higher than the version available. This article delivers a solution.

Login to your environment with ssh and follow these steps:

• PHP 7.4

  wget --content-disposition https://mr42.me/dl/php74
  tar xjf php74.tar.bz2
  echo "alias php='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/bin/lib ~/bin/php74-cli'" >> ~/.bashrc
  

• PHP 8.0

  wget --content-disposition https://mr42.me/dl/php80
  tar xjf php80.tar.bz2
  echo "alias php='LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/bin/lib ~/bin/php80-cli'" >> ~/.bashrc
  

You can either log out and log back in, or run . ~/.bashrc in order to run php on the command line.

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For many years, Windows Notepad only supported text documents containing Windows End of Line (EOL) characters - Carriage Return (CR) & Line Feed (LF). This means that Notepad was unable to correctly display the contents of text files created in Unix, Linux and macOS.

For example, here's a screenshot of Notepad trying to display the contents of a Linux .bashrc text file, which only contains Unix LF EOL characters:

As you can see, Notepad is incorrectly displaying the file's contents, making the file look garbled. This has been a major annoyance for developers, IT Pros, administrators, and end users throughout the community.

Today, we're excited to announce that we have fixed this issue!