♬♪ A Voyage Around My Ears ♬♪
It's been a little over a fortnight since I modified my AMP player to work with a database -and, when it does so, to record every 'play' it decides on in a database table of its own.
So now, 15 days later, I can analyze that 'plays' table to determine if AMP has been doing the job I designed it for: picking a wide variety of composers and music genres, at random, and thus not creating any 'favourites'! [...]
Well, that didn't take long!
First, I discovered rather late in the day that a cue sheet describing a large 'super-FLAC' audio file cannot, by technical design, list more than 99 files. So, if you've got more than 99 FLAC-tracks that you want to combine into a single super-FLAC then, you can't, because the cue sheet cannot contain enough entries to describe it all. [...]
I've been having an interesting discussion of late, over on the Talk Classical forums.
It began life as someone saying they still preferred to use physical media for their classical music listening pleasure rather than any of the streaming, YouTube or similar 'consume-but-don't-own' musical options available these days. [...]
I have bumped the Absolutely Baching Universal Audio Converter script up to version 2.0 (from 1.13). The changes are minor and mostly cosmetic, but there are some bug fixes applied too, so the upgrade is recommended. Upgrade by downloading the script by clicking this link. Then, assuming you downloaded it to your $HOME/Downloads folder, just issue this command:
sudo mv $HOME/Downloads/auac.sh /usr/bin/auac.sh
The full documentation has been corrected slightly, too. [...]
I had a slight mishap with my main PC on New Years' Eve: Manjaro released a new kernel and I installed it without thinking -and, though I believe the PC rebooted fine, I couldn't actually see anything on my monitor, so whether it had or not was really kind of moot!
So, a swift rebuild later, and we're back in business -though it's not quite how I imagined I would spend my New Years' Eve! [...]
It soon being my birthday (and Christmas having just been and gone), it seemed appropriate to buy myself some presents.
The results are as you see them on the left (which you can click on, to make bigger), which encapsulates the current state of my study's approach to things audio-visual. [...]