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Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:26:16 +0000

From http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?topic=37473.msg725451#msg725451 :

I am listening to my entire CD collection on random play.  Well, not quite the entire collection yet, as I'm still only part way through ripping them.  Once upon a time I used to keep them all in alphabetical order but for the last couple of house moves they're never been properly unpacked - hard disk prices are now low enough that it costs less to rip them and keep the originals in a box in a cupboard than it does to buy more shelves for them.

I'm turning up some stuff I'd forgotten the tunes to, some I'd forgotten even having bought, and some stuff I'd rather stayed forgotten.  What was I thinking with that Alice Deejay CD?

Last played: Badly Drawn Boy/Magic in the Air; The Levellers/Just the One; Autechre/Lentic Catachresis

Ripping is courtesy of abcde and flac and then the files are kept on my desktop box and played with mpd and sonata

I did first try playing on my media centre/laptop with the files served by DAV from the desktop, but it was cripplingly slow. But then I tried PulseAudio and it turned out not only to do the job but to be be fairly painfree as well.

It all seems to be getting scrobbled as well - should do something for my last.fm stats, but I don't know exactly what.