Articles Tagged with “Music”
28/03/2008: Friday Evening: Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
OK, so Amazon kindly delivered my copy of Counting Crows’ Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings this morning. I’ve made a point of not listening to any of the new songs that have been floating around the Internet, except Cowboys which Lisa sent to me ages ago. I waited until I finished work this afternoon and am currently listening to the album — I thought I owed it to the boys to listen the whole work so I can judge it as a whole.
Firstly I agree with what’s been said on the newsgroup that this definitely feels like it could be a last ever album. It’s got very much of a retrospective feel to it…
28/11/2007: Sharing Music with Apple iTunes
OK, so a few weeks ago my old G3 iBook broke down. Yesterday I took delivery of a brand new (well, eBay-sourced, but new for me) G4 iBook and was about to start synching my music collection from my Linux desktop when it struck me that that’s just a dumb idea. I’ve got a 54 Mbps wireless network, so why not put it to good use. There must be a way to get iTunes to be able to play my OGG files directly off the Linux server.
One option is Rhythmbox which I happened to already use as my main audio player on Linux. It is able to participate in iTune’s music sharing function by virtue of its DAAP plugin. However, this solution relied on me always being logged into the Linux box with Rhythmbox running. What if someone else was logged in?
Then I discovered Firefly Media Server a DAAP daemon capable of sharing a whole directory of music files (including several formats which iTunes doesn’t support — Firefly transcodes them into WAV on the fly!). This seemed like a great solution, so I installed it…
16/08/2007: Elvis
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the day Elvis Presley faked his own death.
jukebox.pl
jukebox.pl is a GTK2 player for Ogg Vorbis files written in Perl. It uses SDL for audio output.
Why yet another Linux media player?
Because this one has just the features I need and nothing more. It provides the facility to select which song you want to hear next (and if no songs are queued, will select one at random); skip the current song; pause; and a volume control. I don't need anything other than that, and I'd image that a lot of other people don't either. (If anything, the volume control is an extravagance!)