Waking up this asleep unblog to say that I’m this week’s guest one the excellent musical blog “Song of the Day“. Pearls to be discovered very often (and not only this week, huh 🙂 ).
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Bored of freedb’s woes ? Here’s a cure !
Today, I’ll share one of the greatest secrets ever concealed. It makes you able to
- use the freedb lookup function in your cd ripper, while
- avoiding freedb’s crappy (euphemism here) data
- and using MusicBrainz‘ good quality data instead.
How that, you ask ? Well, as per musicbrainz.org/doc/CddbGateway musicbrainz.org/doc/FreeDBGateway:
The
mb2cddbmb2freedb gateway […] can be accessed using the following settings:
host
www.mb.inhouse.co.ukfreedb.musicbrainz.org
via http
port 80
path /~cddb/cddb.cgiIt should be just a matter of changing the host and possibly the path, as the other settings are standard for most applications.
Enjoy.
last.fmCode: Firefox extension to manage last.fm’s boards code easily
or, How I Got to Become a Firefox Extension Developer. 🙂
What’s that ?
Getting tired of typing [-a-r-t-i-s-t-] etc… on last.fm‘s journals & forums for the nth time, I quickly hacked another Firefox extension I was using, BBCodeXtra, to make last.fmCode.
It allows you select a type & select a string (“mll” for instance) and right-click>last.fmCode>User and you get “[user]mll[/user]”. Idem for an artist name, a tag name etc… You can play with the clipboard submenu too, and also the eXtra one.
I left the BBCode there, so bolding, making links, changing colors, etc. just need a few clicks.
Before you download
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Some Greasemonkey scripts for Last.fm
OK, I just took the time to try Greasemonkey, and it’s cool as I expected. I started fiddling whith some scripts downloaded at the -well made- central greasemonkey scripts repository, and made the following:
- Last.fm with Google
- Last.fm with Amazon
- Last.fm with Allmusic
- Last.fm titles with Google
- Last.fm titles with Allmusic
You may download them on userscripts.org.
I’m quite happy with them now (though Amazon clutters the charts a tad too much IMHO).
Many thanks to kepp for his help in tracking the glitches & providing solutions.
Ripping CDs into MPC (Musepack) files using CDex
Wonder what is Musepack (also known as MPC) ? There I explain how to make nice MPC files with CDex | Version anglaise uniquement, désolé. Vous pouvez utiliser le service de traduction automatique en haut de cette page. |
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Patrice Deceuninck composes Tolkien-inspired music
You like Tolkien and good music ? Don’t wait any longer, go there : | Vous aimez Tolkien et la bonne musique ? N’attendez plus, allez ici : |
pdeceuninck.free.fr | |
Howard Shore did rather well with his soundtrack for the LOTR movies, but frankly… Patrice has something more : inspiration ! | Howard shore ne s’en est pas trop mal sorti avec sa bande-son pour les 3 films du SdA, mais franchement… Patrice a quelque chose de plus : l’inspiration ! |