I’ve been a fan of TiddlyWiki for a long time now. It’s an HTML file that contains self-editing powers. You download this file, load it in your web browser, and it presents a note-taking application where the notes are stored within that same HTML file (very portable). I really like this functionality, but I’d like […]
Unfortunately, it’s got some database error (at least with FreeBSD 8 + MySQL). Every time I add a catalog (my eMusic collection for example), it cuts out at 95 songs. (I have over 1000 songs in my eMusic folder.) Guess I’ll wait until it’s release ready. Don’t get me wrong: I love the work the […]
I’d rather run nginx and PHP5-FPM on my FreeBSD machine (to server Ampache). I’m not sure if this is possible, but I figured it’s worth a try. The idea is to use less memory and speed things up. apparently, when you use mod_php in Apache, it means that Apache loads php for every request. It’s […]
AAC+ (also called HE-AAC) is a method to lower the bit rate of AAC (LC-AAC) while maintaining the audio fidelity. There’s a really good paper from the makers of AAC+ here. Seeing how I just set up ampache, and I have low upstream bandwidth, I decided to get AAC+ going. It was a little bit […]
