on November 21st, 2009 by admin
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on November 14th, 2009 by admin
Software:
Smart Pick for Winamp, by Kornel Mezo, GPLv3
A program to assist you with eliminating duplicates from your music collection. A sophisticated play-list generator – randomizer -, and a virtual-DJ that plays a mix from your collection.
User Manual:
Smart Pick User Manual
Download:
Smart_Pick_2_7
Current development activity:
none
Version history:
2.7 – randomizer ‘warmup’, better handling of genre exclusions, composer tag accepted as [...]
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on October 18th, 2009 by admin
More than 4 years ago I had a project, where I implemented a Piano Resonance script in the Kontakt embedded scripting language. My original web page that was dedicated to the script is not any more available.
Shortly, I will update this post, I change the script to Open Source and I will post it here. [...]
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on September 12th, 2009 by admin
If you tried to run a wxRuby GUI application with other Ruby threads, you noticed that the wxRuby event loop is greedy, and renders the other threads very slow. Especially, if you do IO operations, file management in the other thread.
The problem is not wxRuby specific, you see the same behavior using other GUI toolkits [...]
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on September 1st, 2009 by admin
After detailed study, here is my take on the audio play-list topic.
Firstly, what are the reasons that people dislike their play-lists:
Using random numbers – however perfect random numbers they are – is not satisfying. See my related post on random numbers.
People with large music collections have many duplicate songs, either the same song in various [...]
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on August 29th, 2009 by admin
Ruby language design is based on the principle of least surprise. Don’t quote Matz on this line, it was not him actually who brought this up. But, true, Ruby is supposed to reduce your frustration while developing.
I was actually surprised yesterday that I encountered a frustrating situation.
Look at the following code:
hn = Hash.new(0)
hn['key'] += 1
puts [...]
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on August 26th, 2009 by admin
Initially I used the binary distributions of Ruby. However, when new Ruby patch levels are released, it is not always easy to find the binaries – if you are like me, and prefer to run the latest versions, then you also need to learn to compile Ruby for yourself.
This article will help people who are [...]
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on August 25th, 2009 by admin
Random numbers are not evenly distributed when the sample size is relatively small.
Let’s take an everyday example – random play mode in Winamp. For this example, imagine that you have 5.000 songs in your music collection.
Generate 5.000 random numbers in a sequence. In other words, listen to 5.000 songs randomly selected from your collection. You [...]
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on August 23rd, 2009 by admin
Ruby 1.9 has been released for quite some time. Netbeans 6.7 supports the 1.9 version, however there was a major obstacle in the way to upgrade: the Ruby debugger was not working in the IDE.
Good news for the Ruby community, Mark Moseley did an awesome job and he recently made debugging in the IDE possible. [...]
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