Year End Review: Music
WIth the end of the year here in a few days, I thought I'd spend some time reflecting on things from the past year. We'll start with music.
This year has been good for me and finding new music. My roommate over the summer, Adam has a wide taste in music and introduced me to a number of bands. Some of these aren't represented in the following list because their albums did not come out during the past year. My top three albums are all new artists to my collection.
Number One: The National, Boxer. I thought it was good the first time I heard it, but after seeing them live in San Fransisco there was no doubt. This band is amazing. Boxer contains a great range of wonderful songs. From the laid back songs like "Brainy," "Green Gloves," or "Start a War" where the vocals and ...
Oggify 2.0 In Progress
So it happened. I got a new album ripped and went to run Oggify on my Mac Mini. It didn't work. Audio::TagLib was no longer installed due to the OS X upgrade, and I really didn't feel like making a new, sub-par, patch. That and install TagLib again. So Oggify 2.0 is in progress. Here's an idea of the big changes to deserve a major version number bump:
- It's written in Python.
This change and being able to start fresh has provided a number of excellent benefits. These are also worth noting.
Plugin architecture. Oggify provides a parent class, oggify.plugins.Codec, which if implemented provides everything for Oggify to use an input or output format. Currently I've got plugins done for flac as a source. Ogg and MP3 (vbr, cbr, abr) as output formats. So someone writes a file (flac.py), puts ...
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