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Oh how excited I am, for Picard works (without building from source) on my Mac now. Oh, this is the greatest day in a long freakin' time. It was the one last app missing from my usual Windows routine.

Get it now! and start tagging.

Maybe this fella should think about paying the wonderfully awesome MusicBrainz team now :)

Labels: apple, computers, mac, nerd, osx, windows

I've once again improved my little Last.fm script for use with RubyOSA. It needed updating badly. There were quite a few things bugging me.

What's new:

• Nice console messages telling you what's happening.
• Support for skipping over identical genre's.
• Ability to continue or abort tagging process. So if you don't like that tag, type 'n'.
• Use -q to subdue tagging confirmations.
• Full UTF-8 support, as well as proper URL escaping.



Download it now! And have somewhat useful genre's to choose from.

I will tackle cleaning it up later. Add me to your RSS reader if you want script updates.

Remember, you can get RubyOSA with the Last.fm Tagger here.

Labels: computers, last.fm, lastfmtagger, music, nerd, osx, programming, ruby, software

I finished a v0.1 of my eMusic.fm Greasemonkey script. What it does is pretty simple. On an album page, it will pull the 10 most popular tags from last.fm and inject them into the page below the description.

I found myself looking at last.fm for a particular artist to see what the community has labeled it as. This provides a more insightful look into artists you may not be aware of.

Download my eMusic.fm greasemonkey script

Labels: computers, firefox, last.fm, music, nerd, programming, software

My iMac shipped today from Shanghai! HAPPY AMERICAN CONSUMER

Labels: computers, mac

It’s been a while since I changed my mouse. I’ve been attached to the Intellimouse for years now, but I finally made the switch.

To start with the bad… I’m not very fond of the form-factor. My hand does not rest on it fully. That issue can be overruled by the remote functionality.

So many times I’ve been in bed and the music is either too soft or too loud, (I have neighbors to worry about…). Now I can just modify the volume accordingly from the bed. I can also pause and change tracks. This is a very good mouse/remote combo for lightweight remote usage. It works great for music, don’t know how well it would work on a media box. It is perfect for my room. Almost exactly what I wanted!

Labels: computers, gadgets