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User Name MrRedwood

Member Since 2007-07-06

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CocoaJT 5.2.2 (Mac OS X)

I have a smiliar problem trying to capture Real Audio. Seems to be working -- which would be wonderful! -- but only captures 640KB of data, which is only about 1 min 30 sec of a thirty minute program. I guess I'm still looking, although this got me so close! [alert admin]

TextToMP3 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Why it's broken, how to get around it.

I explored the innards of the app, and discovered it does three things:
1) Uses the Macintosh-built-in /usr/bin/say program to create an AIFF file from the text;
2) Uses a copy of LAME included in the download to convert the AIFF to MP3; and
3) Deletes the AIFF file.

The problem appears to be that the Mac program /usr/bin/say is very finicky about what it will 'speak'. The whole CR-LF vs. LF thing seems to be enough for it to barf; other text like long hyphens instead of double-dashes (— vs. --), and 'curly quotes' instead of plain-vanilla-ascii quotes also may play a role.

It should be tough to add a sed script to the front end to clean out everything but plain ASCII, but I'm already over the time limit I'd allocated for this :-)
[alert admin]

k-notes widget 2.0 (Mac OS X)

How do you close a note?

I just d/l'd this, and it looks fine... except... how does one remove a note when it's empty? I now have four lying around my dashboard in different colors, and only one has any text... [alert admin]

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Thursday, November 01 2007 @ 11:49 PM PDT

MP3 Rename 8.3.0.1 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)

Tries to use illegal characters

One of the frustrations with using iTunes is that it has poor support for many non-iPod MP3 players. Although I use iTunes on my computer, when I drag-and-drop music files onto my player (mounted as a hard drive) the iTunes naming convention leaves my music pitiful organized. E.g., "%n %t". MP3 Rename fixes that (and apparently does much more than I really need), and does it quickly and well. With one exception: if the track name (or album name) of a track has an illegal character, MP3 Rename will try to use it and fail while renaming that particular track. Since a significant number of albums have bad characters in their names (e.g., the colon in "Stay Awake: Music from Vintage Disney Films" or the query in "What is Beat?") this happens often enough to be annoying. The desired fix might be a triplet of options: "Illegal characters: [ ] Fail, [ ] Remove, [ ] Smart Substitution". Since that is the only flaw I experienced, I give the software four stars. Keep in mind, it might be a swooningly delicious program if you need one of the features I ignored, or an exercise in sadistic frustration if you need a feature I ignored and it works poorly. [alert admin]

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