http://www.svankruistum.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:23:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the recent release of itunes 8 and it's built in genius feature, it would seem that my work on similar playlist creation has become outdated.  However, there is one thing that genius lacks: a feature that allows exploration of similar music apart from my own collection.  Of course, there ... http://www.svankruistum.com/itunes-music-discovery/ With the recently released iTunes 8.0, it seems that my itunes tagger app's similar playlist functionality isn't a big priority anymore.  While I sometimes like the results from last.fm's similar tracks better than itunes', having Genius built into itunes is just a lot more convenient. The one thing iTunes is still ... http://www.svankruistum.com/a-new-working-itunes-lyric-downloader/ Unfortunately, during a hosting package transfer, things did not go as smoothly as I had anticipated.  It now looks like everything is up and running, though there may be some odd bugs in the site here and there.  Sorry for any inconvenience. The Management http://www.svankruistum.com/site-downtime/ The itunes last.fm tagger program has been updated.  The old beta version has replaced the current itunes tagger program, and there is a new beta program on this page.  The beta version has a couple cool new features that you might want to check out, including faster tagging, last.fm tag ... http://www.svankruistum.com/updated-itunes-tagger-program/ Alright, so it's all out there in the open now.  If you download it, it'll probably be the worst coding you've seen.  But maybe some people can fix that?  We shall see.  Anyways, have fun folks.  Just goes to show that if enough people ask for open source, they'll get ... http://www.svankruistum.com/itunes-lastfm-tagger-now-open-source/ I've just put together a new beta release of itunes tagger.  It includes a couple really exciting features, which took a little bit more coding under the hood, but I think it was worth it. saves a list of tagged tracks saves your options on exit can make a playlist from a selected ... http://www.svankruistum.com/new-itunes-lastfm-tagger-release/ I just finished updating the last.fm tagger. It actually wasn't too bad finishing it off in vb.net. I'll be looking to add some other features to the program in the near future. Leave a comment if there's anything in particular that you'd like to see. http://www.svankruistum.com/itunes-lastfm-tagger-v14-beta/ I've just come up with an idea to continue the trend of writing software to extend last.fm's web services. This program is just a little example so you can see the direction I'm heading. The program takes some selected tracks and will automatically create an itunes playlist of ... http://www.svankruistum.com/lastfm-similar-track-playlists-in-itunes/ So, here it is. I finally got around to working on Cherbonsy's suggestion of using the top Artist tag instead of the track tag from last.fm. I've updated the iTunes Tagger Page, so go take a look. http://www.svankruistum.com/itunes-lastfm-tagger-v13-beta/ Once I moved my old PC into the living room to act as a media pc, I decided it just wasn't practical to carry the keyboard around whenever I was doing work on my computer. The good news is, you can use your basic computer functions with a simple ... http://www.svankruistum.com/use-any-old-ir-remote-to-control-your-computer/