Muxtape is a website that lets users share mixtapes online, which is pretty cool, as is their minimalistic design. This Ruby tutorial will show how to use Mechanize (together with Hpricot) and rb-appscript to scrape the site, download the mp3’s and add them automatically to an iTunes playlist. The last part will only work on Mac OS X (because of rb-appscript).
I was in Chicago on Saturday. What a great town! It was just a day trip so I just walked around for a few hours, but I really liked the feel of the city.
Update: More photos of Chicago on my Flickr page.
Recently I listened to something I haven’t heard in quite a few years, namely the album “Whiskey”, by Swedish crooner Jay-Jay Johanson. I remember I listened to it all the time when it was released some time in the mid 90’s. It was then described as a trip-hop Scott Walker. I was surprised I still enjoyed the music as much. Have I changed that little?
I was in Lille today. It was cold, rainy and very windy. I didn’t do much sightseeing : only the 2 railway stations and the mall between them, and even then, only in passing. Did I miss much? I’ll probably never know.
Like I wrote a few days ago, I am currently in the process of deleting a lot of unlistened (often unlistenable) music from my collection. A part of it consists in Bollywood songs, most of which are in a lossless format, ripped directly from the “original” records, and that takes a lot of space for something that I almost never listen to anymore.
it is currently 1:30 AM, and I am not sleeping. Just trying to delete all the crappy music I’ve accumulated in the last few years. I deleted 13GB today, still 455GB in the collection. When I hear some of the things i am deleting I can’t help but think : “What in hell was I thinking then??”. yes it is that bad…
Reading xkcd while waiting for each deletion batch to complete (iTunes does not do too well for large collections and my NAS is not exactly as fast as the lightning either).
