Yeah, the obligatory photo album:
Month: September 2008
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no, he doesn’t like him either
Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track “What a Wonderful World”. With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can’t use at all – as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
— Pat Metheny on Kenny G.
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ffms2m3u.sh – create playlist for all files on a Firefly Media Server
ffms2m3u – create playlist for all files on a Firefly Media Server.
If you run Firefly Media Server, you can run this script to create an M3U of all the tracks on your server. You can play this in most audio players; VLC likes it, as does iTunes (though big playlists take an age to load). Rhythmbox and the default Ubuntu Movie Player won’t touch my playlist of over 17,000 tracks.
To configure the script you need to edit three lines:
# where the Firefly database lives
DATABASE="/usr/var/cache/mt-daapd/songs3.db"
# server domain name or IP address
SERVER="server.example.com"
# Port to talk to server - don't leave blank
PORT="3689"
If you’re running Ubuntu, you’ll probably only need to change the SERVER line. It spits the M3U playlist, ordered by album, to stdout. Note that in the default Ubuntu install, regular users can’t read the database file.If you’re running this from a cron job, it’s probably a good idea to fill in the real paths for sqlite3 and awk.
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me, the fried tie dye
I had to pass unnoticed in Eugene, so I bought a tie-dye shirt from Maggie’s Farm. I like it.
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it was a Kalle Lasn quotation
A beeping truck, backing up in the alley, jolts you out of a scary dream—a mad midnight chase through a supermarket, ending with a savage beating at the hands of the Keebler elves …
— from Culture Jamming.