Recent experimenting with launchd led us to today’s (failed) experiment in the on-going “SyncTunes” project. (See previous references here and here.) Short version: have tunesync-in.sh activate via launchd when a user logged in, copying a master $ituneslib file over to $userlib. Then, while the user was logged in and playing songs through iTunes, tunesync-out.sh would […]
Trouble sleeping last night. Dreams that aren’t worth posting here because all they really seem to be are chilling previews of some stuff scheduled for Friday. So instead I jumped out of bed and decided to try and cross off one of the things on my to do list. AFP548 had a great article that […]
After the other night I kind of wanted to give up… But the Malkovich restoration continues. I’ve managed to neglect DHL’ing the bunk hard drive back but soon enough. I guess I was holding out for the remote possibility I’d get stuff off of it. Not so much. Anyways…: …that was successful. But then I […]
[18:34:40 ~] rob@Malkovich $ tar -czf $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar $SHARED/Music tar: Removing leading `/’ from member names [13:11:50 ~] rob@Malkovich $ du $BACKUPS/iTunesLib.tar 89272296 iTunesLib.tar
Get started w/ launchd rather than cron Malkovich to death… Figure out some other way to automate exports from iCal to phpCal since there more/less isn’t an ics file to copy w/ a shell script any more and AppleScript support for iCal’s export feature is confusing and weak at best… currently playing: Amon Tobin “Reanimator”
Would programmers become better programmers if they would just lighten up?
In addition to today’s one and two other posts, I’ve crapped my brain in to this one… I was super stoked earlier today to discover that A’s surprise for me came in and I snatched it up. (How I have missed this disc!) Other than that: Shit is hitting the fan left and right. It’s […]
With a little help I made my first Dashboard Widget: the Oblique Strategies widget This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. For those unfamiliar with the Oblique Strategies, may I recommend Gregory Taylor’s site on the subject. Short version? Musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt, faced with the “creator’s block” […]
And just as mysteriously as my synctunes scripts appeared to stop working, they appeared to start working as expected. Keeping an eye on these though since I’m not so sure I trust their reliability at this point. Questions: Are both the LoginHook and the LogoutHook working? Is it successfully updating the play counts (etc.) on […]
Submitted for scrutiny (esp. since it doesn’t appear to be working…): synctunesin.sh gets the latest iTunes Library info from the iTunes User account #!/bin/bash TUNESHARE=/Users/itunes/Music/iTunes AMYLIB=/Users/amy/Music/iTunes GUESTLIB=/Users/guest/Music/iTunes ROBLIB=/Users/rob/Music/iTunes if [ $USER != itunes ]; then if [ $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library -nt $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library ]; then cp $TUNESHARE/iTunes\ 4\ Music\ Library $AMYLIB/iTunes\ 4\ […]