Monthly Archives: September 2009

Record Last.fm MP3’s from Rhythmbox

September 30, 2009 — Add Comment

I have dreamnt of this! I am, most of the time, near an internet connection so I just listen to Last.fm. Last.fm recommends music I like very well, so I don’t have to go hunting for new music. But, sometimes I am not near an internet connection and would like to listen to that music! Well, thanks to Sukimashita, there is a plugin  for Rhythmbox that does just that! It will record each song that plays in Last.fm in Rhythmbox, write tags, etc in ogg format.

Download recorder-to-music.tar.gz and extract the contents to /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins, restart Rhythmbox and enable the plugin. Then, look for a record button!

Note, I did not write this, but I did make a minor change: It will create the audio files in your ~/Music folder instead of on the ~/Desktop where Rhythmbox is set to watch for your music. Now, when an internet connection is not around, you can listen to your favorite music from Last.fm!

Note, at the time of this blog I was using Ubuntu 9.04 on a Dell Mini 9.

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Accolade & Honors

September 16, 2009 — 2 Comments

No, no; I’m not graduating. And as far as I know, I won’t be graduating soon, or with honors. But, I am working for the Honors College at New Mexico State University! I started there this month, about a week ago. I got the word they were looking for a web designer and a “computer” person, so I applied.

But that’s not really what I’m excited about, although I have enjoyed working there so far :). The fun part of this job is going to be taking what I did for the College of Business and getting to re-vamp (I love that word) everything! When I began working for the College of Business I had plans to create a WordPress theme that would work great with WordPress, represent NMSU and it’s branding well, and serve to the college’s needs. Well, as time went on many of my plans to create such a theme were overthrown by the college’s desire to please administrative concerns (i.e. giving up common sense to eradicate administration’s fear of change) instead of concrete modern-day solutions. Multiply that with heavy time constraint and stressful deadlines and you have a site that isn’t quite how I pictured it. Though, it is pretty good :).

So, as I start to re-vamp the old College of Business Wordpress theme into what I am code-naming (just to be as nerdy as possible) “Accolade,” I hope to better reflect my original vision. I also hope this will become a theme anyone within the entire university can use. WordPress is such a powerful content management system. Especially compared to some of the from-scratch stuff I’ve seen come out of the university.

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Ubuntu 9.04 NR Suspend/SD Card Problem on Dell Mini 9

September 3, 2009 — 1 Comment

So, I decided to install Ubuntu 9.04 NR after starting my semester as a Computer Science Major, main reason, gcc. Plus, the Linux itch was getting to me, thought I’d give it a try again, give it another go.

But, right away, Ubuntu was running fine, of course with some of the usual drop in experience from XP: slow video, slow Firefox, etc. Even thought I still feel bad for grandma and still have no hope of her enjoying the Linux experience, I found a few tweaks to help:

But, other than that, Ubuntu is still not quite running well enough to give it even a B+, you get a C+. As we speak last.fm in Rhythmbox is skipping once in a while! But, that’s not what this post is about.

This is about when you close your lid on your Dell Mini 9, nothing comes up when you open it up except a cursor. After thinking for just a few hours, I figured it out, if you have an SD card in the slot, and sleep it, you are going to keep getting that. So, now, you have to remove the SD card before suspending the computer! Annoying, still wondering why I let the Linux itch get to me (as Last.fm keeps skipping and typing is freaking out, writing this post).

Bah!

Fixed: I had recently tried installing Ubuntu UNR on the SD card and had not formatted it since. After formatting the card (FAT16), it sleeps! Check out http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=208980 on how to format your card.

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