I have a lot of music (legally owned and legally given to me from friends. Where they got it I don’t always know). Either way the tags on the music are all over the place and the file names are just horrible. Some of them are in the format I like (Artist/Album/Track# – Artist – Track Title) and some are not even close. While working at Code Greene I met Dexter The Dragon who is just as obsessed as I am in making sure the file names are in a specific way too.
I was using Windows and Dexter told me about a great tool that helps with this. The tool is excellent and it is known as Media Monkey and it does a good job. But I didn’t stick with Windows too much longer and moved to Linux as my Operating System. Sad as it seems I was not able to get all my music tagged and the file names into the format that I wanted so I was stuck with them as is. But then I found a program after many months of searching. It needed to work in Linux as I was not going down the road of Windows anymore. The program was named EasyTAG.
EasyTAG is just what you would think from the name. It is “easy” to use and “tag” your music and structure the file names in any format you choose. EasyTag is a utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, MP4/AAC, FLAC, Ogg, MusePack, Monkey’s Audio and WavPack files. And for you Windows users it even runs on Windows too.
EasyTAG has a “scanner” option that is divine. The scanner option fills out tags for you based on the file-name. Because of the way I wanted my music tagged I had to go through a few extra steps to get them in my format but still it took me far less time to rename the files and tag the files the way I like. This process still took me some time to get done but now that it is I am so glad that my music is in the format I want.
EasyTAG is free and does a great job. It even helped me find Album Art that I was not able to find myself. How? I am unsure but I am happy it did.
If you are anything like me and ike your music formatted and tagged in a specific way but have a bunch that is so far gone that you felt there is no hope. I am here to say there is. It will take time but still there is hope. EasyTAG was the answer to my problems and saved me so much time and headaches.
As I briefly mentioned EasyTAG can be run on all types of OS’s. To list a few: Debian, Fedora, SuSE, FreeBSD MacOSX and Winodws. EasyTAG Download If you give it a try I would be interested to hear what you thought of it.
At work we have a few developers that use Mac’s. I have come to like them much more then I used to. So much I bought one for my wife. Still not for me cause I can buy a PC for much cheaper and have grown very happy with Ubuntu.
Any way to the topic at hand I found that helping set up CakePHP on a Mac with MAMP was a bit different and thought I would post here for others to use and for myself to reference if I need to do it again.
These steps are based on the environment we work on and are in some cases preferences too. You can choose to do the steps differently to your setup but for my purposes this has worked great.
- Download the latest version of CakePHP (http://www.cakephp.org)
At the time of this writing the current version of CakePHP is 1.2.2.8120
- Unzip and rename the folder to cake
- Go to the “Sites” directory and drop the new cake directory there
- Find the path for the CakePHP console (i.e. /Users/username/Sites/cake/cake/console )
- Find the path for the php directory (i.e. /Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin )
- Launch a terminal window
- Type nano .profile
- Some alias I prefer to have:
- alias www=”cd /Users/username/Sites/public_html”
- alias mysql=”cd /Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql -uroot -p”
- Enter the following:
- export PATH=”/Applications/MAMP/bin/php5/bin:/Users/username/Sites/cake/cake/console:$PATH”
- CTRL X
- Save
- Restart your profile
- In your terminal you can now bake
- Type www
- This will take you to your web directory
- Type cake bake project name…
That is it. As I mentioned this post is mostly for a refrence for myself but I hope that it can be a help to others as well. But I would be interested to hear what others have to say and prefer.
I came across this post from Linuxhaxor I thought it was funny and wanted to post it here for others to see and read.
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… you actually enjoy paying for an operating system that is so mired with bugs and issues that it shouldn’t even released as an alpha build. What recession?
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… change is always scary. Look at Obama, he scares the shit out of me. I voted for him but he always talks about change and change is always scary even if that change will make things better.
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… the only thing you use your computer for is to play games. I mean people still use computers for things other than games?
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… You love to dedicate one whole day of your week just for scanning purposes. Anti-virus scan – Spyware Scan – Defragmentation scan – Registry Scan & defrag. What Fun!
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… You love to pay for Anti-virus/spyware (with yearly subscription renewal) for protection that the OS should provide you with in the first place. Even though Windows Defender does a fabulous job, its just not there yet.
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… most people use Windows. If most people use windows it must be good!
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… you realize that nothing lasts forever. Eventually your windows will succumb to a BSOD, while Linux has its version of kernel panic, you might have to wait a couple of years to experience it, if at all.
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… you LOVE Internet Explorer and you can only use the latest version of Internet explorer on windows. Imagine going online without IE.
- You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… you have to be a geek to use Linux and we all know that geeks don’t have girlfriends.
- Last but not least. You shouldn’t switch to Linux because… you don’t want to be a conformist and do what everyone tells you to do. You want to be unique, which is why you want to use windows. Oh wait…
I thought this was funny so if you have any funny lists please let me know by posting a comment or sending an email through the contact us form.