Re: [LAU] Just a reminder

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 08:30:14PM +0200, rosea grammostola wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Folderol <folderol@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
>
> > I see quite a few songs posted here - nothing wrong with that, but I wonder
> > how
> > many of you know about this: http://lam.fugal.net/
> >
> > The site is dedicated to music made with linux, so it is a real shame so
> > few
> > people on here seem to post links there.
> >
>
> That website is nice, but not very 'sexy'...
>
> Isn't is a idea to make a LinuxMusicians page on bandcamp or soundcloud?
>

Ugh, both of those are Flash. Please, no.

I'm personally very happy with Patrick's "Best Of" compliations! I've been very much enjoying the 2010 one. Excellent music, as good or better than a lot of commercially-released stuff I've heard lately.

His format is perfect: just a simple, straight-up m3u playlist, all the songs are tagged, goes right into my player for mobile listening enjoyment, and onto my hard drive for archiving. For example, I make a directory and then do this:

wget -O - http://djcj.org/audio/lam/lam-tracks-2010/lam10.m3u | while read i; do wget -c "$i"; done

It couldn't get any simpler or more elegant for linux. He mirrors it so it downloads quickly and there are no dead links (as are occasionally the case with LAM).

I think if he (or a couple people) could be coaxed into producing such a compilatoin playlist quarterly instead of annually, that'd be just about perfect.
I think the missing peice of LAM is the discussion. You post stuff here on LAU, you get feedback, comments, suggestions, thanks, praise, and an ego-boost. Post stuff to LAM and you never know if what you did was any good, no feedback. So I don't think LAM will ever replace posting to the list, unless he wanted to turn LAM into a BBS, and then it'd just be yet another BBS to log into and check, then from there turn it into a mailing list, and then we've come full circle back to LAU again.

Now, all that said, maybe if someone were to write a perl or python script that automatically scraped mp3 or ogg URLs off of LAU and added them to an RSS feed or M3U playlist (or even submitted them to LAM), that might address the issue too.

f'rinstance, some years ago I hacked this up for some long-since-forgotten purpose:

> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import re
> import sys
>
>
> res=['.*"(http:.+mp3)".*',
> '.*>(http:.+mp3)<.*',
> '.*>(http:.+ogg)<.*',
> '.*"(http:.+ogg)".*',
> '.*"(.+m3u)".*']
>
>
> for line in sys.stdin.readlines():
> for rem in res:
> m=re.match(rem, line)
> if type(m) != type(None):
> print m.group(1)
>

-ken
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Received on Tue May 17 00:15:03 2011