Overview
I’m starting to adopt Unicode/UTF-8 into my world to allow for more internationalization in my projects. Someday I might play with Perl6’s UTF-8 stuff too. I also want to be able have different charactersets render correctly while using Mutt. I often get email from people in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and SouthEast [...]
Overview
In these last three posts [1] [2] [3] I tackled fixing my existing MP3’s to make them more iTunes friendly. I did it with three Perl scripts using two different ID3 libraries : Audio::TabLib which is a Perl wrapper to KDE’s TagLib, and MP3::Tag.
I’ve since given up on MP3::Tag. Although updated [...]
Update
I’ve consolidated this script into a new one. GO HERE : http://warped.org/blog/2009/05/03/itunes-fixing-id3-tags-in-mp3s-take-two/
Overview
MP3’s have been around almost 15 years now. In the beginning there was a slot in the top of the MP3 file where you could hold the Artist, Album Name, Title, Track Number, etc. This is called the ID3 tag, and [...]
Update
I’ve consolidated this script into a new one. GO HERE : http://warped.org/blog/2009/05/03/itunes-fixing-id3-tags-in-mp3s-take-two/
Overview
If you have an album that’s a compilation or DJ mix, then Cover Flow gets confused and does not group all the tracks together into an album because there is a different “Artist” for each track.
iTunes gets around this by setting it’s own custom [...]
Update
I’ve consolidated this script into a new one. GO HERE : http://warped.org/blog/2009/05/03/itunes-fixing-id3-tags-in-mp3s-take-two/
Overview
Let’s say that you have a well organized MP3 collection that you previously used with something like nAMP / Apache::MP3 that already has album art in each directory. Or better yet, you have a friend who does!
You may have collected album [...]
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
For today’s installment we go over getting some basic libraries up to shape. If your Linux distro is old enough, you can’t use 3rd party binaries like Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread), Firefox, and Flash because the [...]
I’m coining a new term here : chown3d (or ch0wn3d depending on how l33t you are).
ch0wned. adj. This is the state when you are a linux user and don’t have root access.
This is the case for a lot of people working Corporate jobs as engineers, including me. I realized chr00ted is a more appropriate [...]
One Handed Typing
After a recent mountain biking accident I found myself typing with my left hand only. Well, not just typing but doing everything else really.
Figuring that there are plenty of people in this world who are in the same boat permanently or temporarily I googled around for “the” solution. The ironically long-named domain www.aboutonehandtyping.com [...]