Managed to finally get a winning token with the Cokes, myCokemusic.com service which meant that I was able to download a song (which Kristen decided she wanted.) Why the process had to open 4 seperate windows I don’t know. What I didn’t know was that you can use the service to actually stream in real time the songs aka your personal radio service, but you wouldn’t (or shouldn’t!) be able to record it to listen to again. These one off listens cost 1 credit, with a download or a free win being 99 credits.

A friend was getting a problem with Windows Media Player with a “GetIUMS could not be located in Dynamic LInk Library MSDART.DLL”. There is a good mini-faq which covers this problem and lots of other questions on Windows Media Player – well worth reading for future use.

Have some Toast courtesy of Paul Young when he was in Streetband. I remember listening to this on a mix tape when I was at school, and loved it.

Managed to find a solution to convert my 3 hour long real audio file into lots of smaller mp3 files. I originally downloaded Streambox VCR suite which enabled me to record the realaudio stream as one big file. I then used CD Wave from Etree, Etree being one of the sites that I had downloaded concerts from in the past. This enabled me to mark my split points and then save the file into smaller chunks (43 of them!). Then I used my registered copy of Musicmatch to convert from the wav file to mp3 ready to burn onto cd and listen in my Rio mp3 player. It sounds a complicated process but it was actually fairly straightforward.

Anyone got any tips on how to convert a 3 hour long real audio file into chunks of mp3 files *quickly*? I’ve streamed a broadcast of the radio into one big 60MB Real Audio and left the computer converting it into a 1.3GB wav file. I can then burn this onto mp3 but it would be better if I could split it into sizeable chunks, say every 5 or 10 minutes so it makes it easy to stop. start and “rewind” on a mp3 player. So far I’ve looked at lpripper (but that splits it into 36 chunks, 2 of which are 1.5 hours long and the rest fractions of a minute long!.

Finally got round to installing the pants Sony Sonicstage software on the pc after the rebuild over Christmas. Reading the readme files, which looks like it was randomly translated in several languages and back into english via babelfish, I can’t believe the number of restrictions (ie only w2kpro is supported, no other w2k platforms. xp ONLY if you are logged on as THE administrator, etc). I finally got through the maze of website navigations to see if there were any software updates for the system. I eventually ended up at the Sony Musiclub page which is the best portal homepage. From there you can download two updates to the main software, one 45MB the other 4MB (and you need to download and install the 45mb one before you can install the 4mb one.) There are also two player addon’s, one which determines your mood by analyzing the music you are playing (I think) and a Realone player for the software.

Finally got round to installing the pants Sony Sonicstage software on the pc after the rebuild over Christmas. Reading the readme files, which looks like it was randomly translated in several languages and back into english via babelfish, I can’t believe the number of restrictions (ie only w2kpro is supported, no other w2k platforms. xp ONLY if you are logged on as THE administrator, etc). I finally got through the maze of website navigations to see if there were any software updates for the system. I eventually ended up at the Sony Musiclub page which is the best portal homepage. From there you can download two updates to the main software, one 45MB the other 4MB (and you need to download and install the 45mb one before you can install the 4mb one.) There are also two player addon’s, one which determines your mood by analyzing the music you are playing (I think) and a Realone player for the software.

I put the above CD into the computer to rip to mp3 so I can listen to them wherever and a flash box popped up redirecting me to exclusive content at the Relient K website. The actual material is quite funny, with 8 (so far) 5-10 minute documentarys of life on the road with the band. So far I’ve watched Chair High Jumps and Landmine Larry get shot at with grapes from a slingshot. All in all, this has been one good value album as I got their Christmas CD, Deck the Halls, Bruise your hand with it too.

I put the above CD into the computer to rip to mp3 so I can listen to them wherever and a flash box popped up redirecting me to exclusive content at the Relient K website. The actual material is quite funny, with 8 (so far) 5-10 minute documentarys of life on the road with the band. So far I’ve watched Chair High Jumps and Landmine Larry get shot at with grapes from a slingshot. All in all, this has been one good value album as I got their Christmas CD, Deck the Halls, Bruise your hand with it too.

I blogged about slimserver and how I had it working on my local lan, and then the main computer blew up. Well part of the re-install and rebuild included slimserver and this morning is the first day back in work after the holidays….and the launchtest of my streaming audio from home – it works great!