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Rhythmbox daap download queue

ryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:50:59 +0000

I sometimes use rhythmbox to download music from other people's daap shares. I wish I had a better interface to the download queue. Right now, there's just a progress bar. I want to see what songs are being downloaded. If a share suddenly goes down, I want to be able to delete those things from the queue without stalling the rest of it. Or set things to pause and resume later when the share comes back online.

Rhythmbox playlist folders

ryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:43:32 +0000

I have a weekly freeform radio show on WCBN. I've had this show for a number of years. Every week, I put a playlist together. I like having them around for historical purposes, but now my list of playlists in rhythmbox is quite long.

I wish that I could create a playlist folder to store all my old playlists, and I could choose to show it expanded or not.

DAAP proxy

ryan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:38:59 +0000

So, "I" have a lot of computers at my house, and each of them has a part of "my" music collection. I opened up the daap port on my firewall and I have it go to the daap server on one of "my" computers.

But I want them ALL.

Rhythmbox daap should understand ratings

ryan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:00:18 +0000

itunes music sharing protocol (the old one that we know how to use, not the new one that was created as a hostile attack against us) has the ability to serve ratings with its export.

But Rhythmbox doesn't seem to be able to read those ratings. That would be useful. Ratings are important to me, cuz I have too much music to keep in my head at once.

Rhythmbox also doesn't have the ability to serve those ratings out.

Gnome-terminal activity notifications

ryan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:05:13 +0000

There is a terminal application for Mac OS X called iTerm. It's pretty excellent. If you're using Mac OS X, this is the terminal to use. It's got tabs and transparency and all the good, modern stuff.

But if you're a real person like me, you use Linux, and you use gnome-terminal. Or, I'll concede, you might use Konsole.

Music Brainz Input From Sound Juicer

ryan — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:40:52 +0000

I often find myself ripping CDs that don't have metadata on the web yet. Of course, I want to help out the community by adding this data, but sometimes I'm too lazy. To me, this sounds like a situation where the data entry should be made easier.
Sound Juicer has a menu item that says "Submit Track Names", but all this does is take me to the Music Brainz website, looking up the TOC for the CD. Then, the Music Brainz submission process is a little complicated.