Prosthetic Conscience

Jason McBrayer's weblog; occasional personal notes and commentary

Tue, 25 Apr 2006

Blog upgrades

I’ve upgraded my blogging software to the newest version of PyBlosxom. This broke the comment plugin, so comments are not working for now. On the positive side, I now have my blog running on FastCGI like it should be. Hurrah! On another negative, I’ve had to disable the pager (doesn’t work under fastcgi). So, we’ll see.

Eventually I want to move over to a Django-based blog, but I need to be able to import all of my old entries, and I’d like to keep it filesystem-based rather than in a database. Hmm…

Update: Comments are fixed. Pager still broken. Trackbacks broken, but I’m not sure they ever worked anyway.

[ Posted: 09:09] | [ Category: /computing] | Permalink | Comments: 2 ]

FC5 packges for Quod Libet

Quod Libet is a very good music player, written in Python. I was having trouble with Rhythmbox (on startup it would hang and start consuming memory until it OOMed). I tried Banshee, but it doesn’t yet have support for internet radio, or for podcasts. Quod Libet is more complete than Banshee, and more stable than Rhythmbox.

It is also a very capable tag editor, and makes fixing inconsistencies in your music collection’s tags very straightforward. It is extensible with plugins in Python, though I haven’t looked into this very much yet. The one feature I am missing would be to write mp3 cds, which Banshee does, and which would be terribly handy for my cheap-ass mp3 player. Apparently there used to be a QL plugin for this, but it needs to be updated.

I have built rpms for Quod Libet and its dependencies for Fedora Core 5. They are in my yum repository. You will almost certainly also want gstreamer-plugins-good, gstreamer-plugins-bad, and gstreamer-plugins-ugly and their dependencies from freshrpms.

[ Posted: 08:15] | [ Category: /computing] | Permalink | Comments: 0 ]