Woooot! My MacBook shipped this afternoon and is supposed to be delivered on Friday! It was possibly going to take a maximum of two weeks to be delivered. This is less than one week. We’re pretty busy this weekend, I won’t have much time to play with it. Perhaps if it’s delivered in time I […]
Technology
Know that feeling…
iPod alzheimers
Losing Memory I had some frustration with my iPod nano this week. I have been using it on Linux with Rhythmbox, which I find quite good for organising and playng my music, but it doesn’t have great iPod support. It can copy files to the iPod and it pretends to be able to delete them, […]
Blech
Hmm, this morning I formatted my iPod for Mac because it was behaving very badly, only allowing about 600MB available memory (advertised as 1GB ) and somehow became read-only on my computer so that I couldn’t delete the half-transfered songs. This probably means I won’t get it working in Linux again until I format it […]
When buying a laptop…
It’s not just the price of the laptop that you have to worry about. You also need to think about some thing to protect your new toytool and something to carry it in. At this point I’m hoping to buy one, pending saving the money and it still seeming like a good idea when the […]
Sound Juicing
I just discovered that Sound Juicer does do ID3 tags. You just need to have audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! lame name=enc bitrate=160 ! id3v2mux in the settings. I was missing the id3v2mux bit in my settings. I still can’t add the year to the data though. Update: EasyTAG doesn’t recognise the Sound Juicer encoded tags so if […]