Looking For Quacks In The Pavement

Category: Linkage (Page 1 of 75)

dBpoweramp: Big Thumbs Up

This afternoon I pulled up an album in MusicBee that I hadn’t listened all the way through in years, Depeche Mode’s Music for the Masses. Partway into it I noticed one song (Little 15) had a bit of a skip. I scrubbed back, listened to that part again, and sure enough… skip confirmed.

Well, great. How long ago did I rip this CD anyway?

Checking the codec properties for that song’s data file revealed that while it wasn’t made with the beta versions of the Ogg Vorbis codec (thank goodness), it certainly dated back to roughly 2002, thus a very early release version. This means the skip glitch could be on account of a newer playback decoder disliking something about early Ogg Vorbis encoding, but is more likely just a result of the cheap fast CD ripper software I used back then.

No time like the present to freshen the library up a bit, then, is there?

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A Blog Old Enough To Drink

Sweet mercy, it’s been twenty one entire years as of today since journal post number one landed in a database on a long-forgotten web host somewhere. It wasn’t the start of my blogging experience, as I’d been running Monaural Jerk on a workstation at the office called Zero previously, but it was the start of this grey duck dot net experience, such as it’s been. The software and the memes and the hosting environments have changed along the way, but the silly man behind the keyboard remains the same… older, but relatively unchanged, for good or ill.

More than two decades later and I’ve still managed not to figure out what I’m really doing here, but I intend to keep doing it anyway.

Good Logging

Fediverse user “c0debabe” posted thus, this afternoon:

Bad logging is worse than no logging because then there is false hope that the info you want might actually be there.

https://hackers.town/@c0debabe/109667298320413659

And that inspired me.

It’s unusual for me to use an existing, well-known template. Enjoy this rarity.

Look, I am a delight, okay? Also, I might as well get something useful out of that year I spent living deep in “spotted owl makes good eating” country as a teenager.

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