Last week I recovered a friend’s mp3 library from a 2nd generation iPod. All was well except for that fact that any music put onto the iPod is given a random file name such as C00XY.mp3. Not helpful. After scratching my head and thinking that we would have to rename most of the files manually, [...]

I’ve just been reading John Young’s post on his forum about paying for gigs where you live:John Young Message Board – New ways…… It strikes me as an odd idea where you pledge an amount of money and once there’s enough money pledged, then it’s likely a gig will be arranged. I suppose this explains [...]

Well, Mo’s been beavering away and has almost finished the new forum over at the-company.com. Keep your eyes peeled! In the meantime there are considerations of webcrawlers and such to extract the content as ProBoards have said, quite simply, you can’t have the database with your content. Ho hum.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron over the weekend. The process was relatively painless, and some of the upgrades made little, but nice, improvements. Finally, the UPNP media rendering functionality in Rhythmbox is working! To set this up, you need to access the command line, and install the pyhton-coherence package: <code>sudo apt-get install python-coherence</code> [...]

It seems that this is old news generally, but I found Mario Paint Composer on the Internet yesterday. It was actually due to a YouTube video (why the hell I ended up looking at a Rick Astley song I still don’t know). Of course, there is not one but two composer programs emulating the features [...]

I wanted to extract Marillion’s cover of Toxic today, which lives on the DVD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys. I found a useful page over at Ubuntu Geek which covered the topic nicely using a tool called transcode, which I’ve used a little of in the past. I was having some [...]