programming – sardonick http://motespace.com/blog Disclaimer: The following web space does not contain my own opinions, merely linguistic representations thereof. Fri, 14 Oct 2011 16:26:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 Consolidating Music Metadata http://motespace.com/blog/2006/12/04/consolidating-music-metadata/ Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:48:41 +0000 http://fairuz.isi.edu/blog/index.php/2006/12/04/consolidating-music-metadata/ Finally finished a script a couple weekends ago to synchronize data between Amarok, Rhythmbox, and iTunes. I now use Amarok exclusively, and it’d been bugging me for a long time that my old metadata from multiple machines and multiple apps was locked away and unexploitable. So i fixed that, for myself at least. I harvest everything into a common format and populate a big ol database with everything. Then I merge all the metadata together (averaging and adding, whatever, where necessary).

The code is ugly for now, so no public release. I might clean it up some time if anybody else wants it. Just ask.

]]> things elecronic http://motespace.com/blog/2005/10/06/things-elecronic/ http://motespace.com/blog/2005/10/06/things-elecronic/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:51:24 +0000 http://fairuz.isi.edu/blog/index.php/archives/2005/10/06/things-elecronic/ I think part of the reason I enjoy programming so much is that there is no entropy in what I create. Information gets out of date, standards change, yes, but that’s just a synchronization problem, not a Universe problem.

Or is entropy a bad thing? It’s the enemy of order and structure, yes. But it does keep things clean, and as the old stuff wears out, it gives us an excuse and a drive to innovate the new.

Huh.

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