• Typo fix of sysnc/unsync data. Thanks to Gergan Penkov <gergan@gmail.com>
• Infinite loop fix when dealing with malformed APIC frames.
• Added Tag.removeUserTextFrame helper. Thanks to David Grant <davidgrant@gmail.com>

Downloads:

tarball - eyeD3-0.6.16.tar.gz
ebuild - eyeD3-0.6.16.ebuild

Now Playing: Death - Zombie Ritual

Bug fixes:

• ID3 v1 comment encoding (latin1) bug fix (Renaud Saint-Gratien <rsg@nerim.net>)
• APIC picture type fix (Michael Schout <mschout@gkg.net>)
• Fixed console Unicode encoding for display.
• Fixed frame de-unsnychronization bugs.
• Round float BPMs to int (per the spec)

New features:

• Lame tag output enhancements.
• Added –no-tagging-time to quell updates to TDTG frames.
• Added -F to specify a different delimiter for multi-field options. Useful when one of the fields contains a ‘:’
• Added –remove-images to remove all APIC frames.

Downloads:

tarball - eyeD3-0.6.15.tar.gz
ebuild - eyeD3-0.6.15.ebuild

Now Playing: Cannibal Ox -Straight Off the D.I.C.

Pancake/waffle batter in a pressurized can! Organic and shit. Since it is not available in Colorado yet, I think a road trip to San Francisco is in order.

• New features:
  • New playlist keybindings ‘Q’ and menuitem for adding tracks to the front of the playlist queue.
  • New playlist keybinding Alt+q for clearing the queue.
  • Album covers fetched from amazon are now cached
  • Better notification using “busy cursor” during large playlist adds
  • Gentoo ebuild uses ‘mp3′ instead of the ‘mad’ USE flag.
• Bugs fixes:
  • Relative paths in playlist URIs now work.
  • Gajim status plugin talks directly with the Gajim DBus service rather than through the shell which fixes the problem encoding ‘♫’
  • Playlist name is exported correctly.
  • Prefer the latest python version installed instead of the minimal version
  • Fix configure options and ebuild USE flags.

Downloads:
tarball - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/mesk-0.3.2.tgz
ebuild - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/mesk-0.3.2.ebuild

Now Playing: Mogwai - Travel Is Dangerous

Bugs fixes since 0.6.13:

• Fixed a nasty corruption of the first mp3 header when writing to files that do not already contain a tag.
• Fixed a bug that would duplicate TYER frames when setting new values.
• Fixed the reading/validation of some odd (i.e.,rare) mp3 headers

Features added since 0.6.13:

• Encoding info extracted from Lame mp3 headers (Todd Zullinger)
• Genre names will now support ‘|’ to allow for genres like “Rock|Punk|Pop-Punk” and ‘!’ for “Oi!”

Downloads:
tarball - eyeD3-0.6.14.tar.gz
ebuild - eyeD3-0.6.14.ebuild

Now Playing: E Razor - India

• Bugs fixes since 0.3.0:
  • Fixed process renaming bug. Removed since it never really worked and was not portable.
• New features since 0.3.0:
  • Lyrics plugin that will load a Google search in a web browser.
  • Better filtering and selection of album art search results.
  • Added Swedish (sv) translation, by Daniel Nylander

Downloads:
tarball - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/mesk-0.3.1.tgz
ebuild - http://mesk.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/mesk-0.3.1.ebuild

Mesk in Swedish:

Now Playing: Modest Mouse - Cowboy Dan

• Changes since 0.6.12
  • Add –no-zero-padding option to allow disabling of zero padding track numbers. (Thanks TMZ!)
  • Add –nfo option to output NFO format files about music directories.
• Bug fixes since 0.6.12
  • Numerous tag write fixes, especially regarding ID3 v2.4.
  • Time computation fixes when incorrect MP3 frames headers were found.

Does not look like much, but both bug fixes are pretty major. The write bugs were innocuous but they would grow your tag over time (10 bytes/write) in some circumstances. And who does not want correct times? This bug was rare due to the fact that it required “close but no cigar” mp3 headers. I probably got 5-7 emails about it over the years. Plus two new features. Get rid of leading zeros in track numbers and output NFO files from music dirs.

Downloads:
tarball - http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/eyeD3-0.6.13.tar.gz
ebuild - http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/eyeD3-0.6.13.ebuild

Now Playing: Panurge - Leper ]]> http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/04/30/eyed3-0613-undercovers-on/feed/ http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/04/20/mesk-030-blood-on-the-wall/ http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/04/20/mesk-030-blood-on-the-wall/#comments Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:34:56 +0000 travis http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/04/20/mesk-030-blood-on-the-wall/

Changes since 0.2.x

• DBus service and interface for remote control (e.g. to bind to multimedia keys)
• CD audio support.
• System tray icon (requires Gtk+ 2.10)
• Playlists can now be exported to any of the supported playlist types.
• Support for read-only playlists and annotations (i.e. comments).
• More feedback for potentially long operations via status bar.
• Improved startup time for large/many playlists.
• Refactored plugin API to ease writing plugins and the ability to add menu items to the View menu.
• XSPF (Spiff) playlists used as internal playlist format.
• PLS playlist support.
• Jump to current (Ctrl+j) is now in the View menu and will display the playlist tab if necessary.
• Toggle compact UI mode with Alt+c
• Many playlist errors which resulted in a dialog are now reported in a message window that can be opened by clicking on the status bar image.
• A new log window (View->Logs) for viewing logs when not started from the command line.

Plugin changes since 0.2.x

• Download album covers from amazon.com with the albumart plugin.
• Gajim status plugin allows customization of the format through the preference dialog.
• Last.FM status and stats shown in plugin configuration dialog and home page link added to view menu.

Top 10 bands rocked during Mesk 0.3.0 development:

1. Blood On The Wall
2. Modest Mouse
3. Melvins
4. Tragedy
5. Meat Puppets
6. The Giraffes
7. The Sword
8. Hot Snakes
9. Film School
10. The Roots

Now Playing: Mr. Bungle - Quote Unquote ]]> http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/04/20/mesk-030-blood-on-the-wall/feed/ http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/03/05/eyed3-subversion/ http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/03/05/eyed3-subversion/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:46:27 +0000 travis http://www.nicfit.net/blog/2007/03/05/eyed3-subversion/ The other day I migrated eyeD3 from CVS to Subversion. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but since I was the only one committing to the code it was pretty low on my priority list. But this is no more! Todd Zullinger has sent many great patches over the years and apparently got sick of maintaining a separate tree with all his patches, so the result is that eyeD3 now has two devs with commit access. Sweet!

Get the development trunk here: svn://svn.nicfit.net/eyeD3/trunk

I also set up Trac so users can now submit bugs there instead of just via email:
http://trac.nicfit.net/eyeD3

Hack on!

Changes since 0.6.11:

• Handle Mac style line ending in lyrics and display with the proper output encoding
• TDTG support and other date frame fixes.
• Even more output encoding fixes.

Downloads:
tarball - http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/eyeD3-0.6.12.tar.gz
ebuild - http://eyed3.nicfit.net/releases/gentoo/eyeD3-0.6.12.ebuild

Now Playing: Bloodlet - New Age 1993

Screll in response to my blasphemous comments

- Face Value (1990)

• Support for GEOB (General encapsulated object) frames.
• Decreased memory consumption during tag rewrites/removals.
• Allow the “reserved” mpeg version bits when not in strict mode.
• Solaris packages available via Blastwave.org

Much thanks to Aaron VonderHaar for GEOB support and Eric Enright for putting together the Solaris packages.

This is the first release in a long time that does not include an RPM because rpmbuild decided to fail on me. It’s been so long since I cared about (or used for that matter) RPMs that I simply disabled it in the Makefile rather than digging in to see what the problem was. I’ll leave that up to the maintainers of RPM-based distros.

Get eyeD3 0.6.11 here.

The comparison between Mesk and Foobar2000 is sort of interesting, especially since I’ve never seen or used that application. I checked out some screenshots and I guess I can see how the tabbed interface is similar. *shrug* Just so everyone knows, Mesk does not aim to be a clone of Foobar2000. It’s purely coincidental, not to mention Foobar2000 is way more mature.

Check out the review here. A bonus is Adam’s comment, fucking hilarious.

Download tarball / ebuild

Now Playing: Pelican - Mammoth

Many thanks to João Pinto for putting together the .deb package. Check out GetDeb for more bleeding-edge packages for Ubuntu.

Now Playing: As Hope Dies - Emotion Over Repitition

Download tarball / ebuild

Now Playing: Born Against - Riding With Mary

Download tarball / ebuild

Now Playing: Government Issue - Vanity Fare

• Playlist Add button
• Playlist context menu supporting add, remove, and queue functions
• Show version in About Dialog
• Handle drag-and-drop from konqueror (ACTION_MOVE)
• Language files install correctly now (ebuild)
• CTRL+f will open the playlist search UI
• Be explicit about librsvg being a dependency (ebuild)
• Bug fix: Clear album cover when playlist is cleared

Download tarball / ebuild

Now Playing: Master - Constant Quarret

$ sshfs nicfit.net: /mnt/nicfit.net

Unmounting is as simple as:

$ fusermount -u /mnt/nicfit.net

How cool is that?!  It shows up in a ‘df’ listing like any other mounted filesystem, although the size report is off by a little

sshfs#nicfit: fuse    7.5T     0  7.5T   0% /mnt/nicfit.net