Itunes

iTunes was reporting a incorrect track time length for an audiobook that I created concatenating several mp3 together. I had to reencode the whole thing again to make iTunes recognize propertly the track lenght. I could’t reencode the concatenated file itself as that ended up with a Segmentation fault in lame cat *.mp3 |lame --mp3input - - >resultfile.mp3 cat *Night.mp3 |lame --mp3input - down.mp3 ID3v2 found. Be aware that the ID3 tag is currently lost when transcoding. LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/) Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 16538 Hz - 17071 Hz Encoding <stdin> to down.mp3 Encoding as 44.1 kHz single-ch MPEG-1 Layer III (11x) 64 kbps qval=3 bitstream problem: resyncing... bitstream problem: resyncing... bitstream problem: resyncing... bitstream problem: resyncing... This uses the lame streaming mode, decodes the input stream (all mp3 concatenated) as mp3 and then reencodes it as mp3. Although it complains about “bitstream problem: resyncing...”, the resulting mp3 sounds fine. ...

I just downloaded and installed iTunes 8 from apple website, turning on Genius. we will see what kind of recommendations does it give me. via iTunes 8: Ready for download - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

Continuing with my previous posts 1,2 …. I wrote a little script that I run every day via Windows Scheduled tasks. The script adjust the volume and EQ setting of all the podcasts and audiobooks everyday. I find hard to listen to podcast and audiobooks at the gym (that’s were I listen to podcasts and audiobooks) at the standard volume so I like to adjust the volume +100% and change the EQ setting to “Spoken word”. ...

The other day I found out this post. Thanks to the examples javascript (or more accurately jscript) provided in the post I learned to write my own javascripts to manage muy iTunes library. Here’s the result a script to find out files under the “iTunes Music” folder that are not present in the iTunes library. It helpful we you mess up the library (I used the “Consolidate library” feauture and ended up with tons of duplicated files in the hard drive that didn’t show up the iTunes interface). ...

It seems that the company I’m working on has blocked http://media.libsyn.com. They have categorized it as entertaiment/radio so I cannot access the podcasts from Java Posse at work. I’m sync my iPod with the ITunes at work so I cannot hear them anymore. Because I’m not happy with the situation I tried to overcome the blocking using my connection at home, so after googling a little bit I found PHP Proxy that allows to access other sites throught it. So I installed at home and now I point my iTunes to retrieve the javaposse feed through it. ...