After working on twiddly pixel pushing, design twiddling, and display code, it’s actually relaxing to unwind and do some actual coding. I wrote a recursive function for the id3 tag viewer, based on the getID3() library (it’s reading a Prodigy song I threw up on the server to test with in debug mode). I’m putting together a ripping machine from one of my spare systems. I fully intend to rip my whole collection over the next few months. I figure if I can be bothered to do one or two in the morning before I go to work, and a few each night, I should be able to have all the CDs I own in a few months. From there on out, I’ll just rip as I acquire.
In other MP3 related news, a new version of MP3ext is out! I don’t think I’ve really found a better id3v2 tagger than this. (I really liked Helium and even paid up front for a beta version, but the writers abandoned that without releasing a finished upgrade and then started charging money for Helium2, which left me pretty soured me on that so they don’t count.) Came across a few interesting projects: the cool MP3 database of the future (not sure I like some of the stuff like the file tracking via id3v1 comments), and Netjuke, a streaming server that is a lot more like what I’m envisioning than most of the other ‘jukebox’ software out there.