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Another music in a different kitchen
I’ve long wanted some sort of solution for centrally storing and serving music for listening around the house. There are all sorts of commercial products (like Sonos) out there, some eye-wateringly expensive even without any storage, plus numerous open-source projects, … Continue reading
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Tagged music, Raspberry Pi, Rune Audio, Volumio
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Fip has moved
As you may know, I love making little internet radios from Raspberry Pi computers – mostly so I can listen to the wonderful French radio station Fip. Fip plays a mixture of jazz, left-field rock and pop, classical music – … Continue reading
Accept no substitutes
It’s the end of term in most schools today, and I’d like you to take a moment to think about the supply teachers. (Vested interest declaration: reader, I am one.) Nobody loves a supply teacher. The class teachers (usually) have … Continue reading
How to get Word to paste unformatted text by default
This is something that drives me mad. Why (oh why) do word processors (Word, Open Office) paste formatted text by default? Almost always what you want to do is to paste unformatted text, so that it matches the font of … Continue reading
Adobe Audition 3 on a modern Mac
I wrote previously about getting CoolPlay to run on a Mac. CoolPlay is WindowsXP software used for playing audio clips, developed for BBC Radio, but it has other uses too, and I don’t know of any Mac software that does … Continue reading