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2024-11-11 21:09 #

/me is listening to “Love Hides” by The Doors

2024-11-11 21:02 #

Apparently, they will soon get a new home!

2024-11-11 20:42 #

The Beauty of $\LaTeX$: Some of the crap that has kept me from using MS Word for years. Now I’m too old and remain a happy $\TeX$er for the days ahead. Fun thing: we did the same MSc (which was called a DEA at that time in France) one year apart!

2024-11-11 20:36 #

I’m pretty happy with new management system for my audio file. Thanks to Beets I now have access to the whole power of command line utilities. Here’s a brief overview of the top genres in my library:

» beet summarize | head -n 12
genre                  | count
---------------------- | -----
Rock                   | 3045
Post-Punk              | 2754
Jazz                   | 2509
Alternative            | 1212
Electronic             | 948
Indie Rock             | 838
Pop                    | 817
Classic Rock           | 679
Alternative Rock       | 497
Indie Pop              | 424

How many total tracks having a genre tag, excluding tracks from playlists which contain, following poor design choice, duplicate records?

» beet summarize ^context:playlist | head -n 12 | cut -f2 -d\| | tail -n +3 | paste -sd+ | bc
10603

And so on… Wanna looks at the tlistening stats for the current song?

» beet ls -f '$artist ($album): $title ($length) [$genre, $play_count, $last_played]' $(mpc current | sed s/-//)
Diana Krall (The Girl in the Other Room): Narrow Daylight (3:31) [Contemporary Jazz, 12, 2024-11-11 20:38:09]
2024-10-30 10:34 #

/me is listening to “Darkening of the Light” by Concrete Blonde

2024-10-29 18:16 #

Ncmpcpp with no color enabled. Much better for my eyes!

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2024-10-27 10:43 #

I was going to spent some times trying to output the sound of my built-in speakers to my old Apple TV which is connected via a DAC to my wi-fi system, until I realized it is as simple as loading Pipewire RAOP module, pactl load-module module-raop-discover. Then, launch pavucontrol and switch to your Airplay device.

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The Airplay system is now listed in the list of available devices.

» wpctl status
PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, cookie:758904776]
 └─ Clients:
        32. WirePlumber                         [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:1915]
        33. WirePlumber [export]                [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:1915]
        34. pipewire                            [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:1916]
        54. gnome-shell                         [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:2575]
        55. GNOME Shell Volume Control          [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:2575]
        56. GNOME Volume Control Media Keys     [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:2728]
        57. xdg-desktop-portal                  [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:3033]
        58. Music Player Daemon                 [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:1905]
        64. Mutter                              [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:2575]
        65. gsd-power                           [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:2732]
        81. pipewire                            [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:1916]
        88. Firefox                             [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:82644]
       102. speech-dispatcher-dummy             [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:90304]
       103. wpctl                               [1.0.5, chl@aliquote, pid:90700]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      50. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   51. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.28]
 │      66. Apple TV Salon                     [vol: 1.00]
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 ├─ Sources:
 │  *   52. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 1.00 MUTED]
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 └─ Streams:
        59. Music Player Daemon
             61. output_FL       > Apple TV Salon:send_FL       [active]
             63. output_FR       > Apple TV Salon:send_FR       [active]
        82. speech-dispatcher-dummy
             98. output_FR       > ALC3254 Analog:playback_FR   [init]
            101. output_FL       > ALC3254 Analog:playback_FL   [init]

We can even make it the default output audio channel:

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Now, since Pipewire supports multiple streaming output devices, much like mpd, I just need to configure the audio source in their config files to get everything right for the next time.

2024-10-25 18:38 #

/me is listening to “Man of Anatomy” by Tom Hickox

2024-10-22 21:17 #

/me is listening to “Amor Fati” by Washed Out

2024-10-21 21:23 #

I guess all is working now ;-) I’ve converted my automated script that shows current track on the micro-blog (for casual IRC users), I’ll just need to figure out how to manage tagging and playlist management under ncmpcpp.