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Monday, 23 February 2026
Reliably recording Internet radio programs
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In a previous blog , I've explained how to use mplayer to dump Internet radio programs to a file. In practice the recording sometimes te...
Monday, 3 November 2025
E Unibus Unix
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Today I was reminded of what I think might have been a fortune cookie from Bell Labs Unix: E Unibus Unix . Unibus was the backplane bus of t...
Thursday, 2 January 2025
Installing mplayer on dietpi on Raspberry Pi
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In a previous article , I explained how to use mplayer to record Internet radio broadcast non-interactively. I got it working on my workhors...
Recording Internet radio with mplayer
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It's not widely known, but mplayer can be used to listen to Internet radio stations. If you just want to listen, my recommendation is t...
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
An interesting anomaly in my car player re MP3 and AAC
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I discovered by accident that my 10-year old car's entertainment system can accept .aac suffixed files on USB flash memory sticks to pla...
Saturday, 6 January 2024
Clever function names
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It came back to me today that in the language that influenced Python , ABC , developed at the CWI to teach programming, there were 2 string ...
Sunday, 5 November 2023
Excluding devices from pipewire control
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In my previous blog post I described how I used pipewire to add a bluetooth dongle to the audio outputs of my computer. Unfortunately activ...
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