Went to Hive 76 for their open house night on Wednesday to check out the space. While I was there Jack Zylkin demoed his very cool Arduino based vintage typewriter > USB Keyboard hack, and it’s actually quite ingenious and cool. There are contact relays underneath the main typewriter carriage and he uses magnets for other registers and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Music’
June 9, 2010
Mass .flac to Apple Lossless (ALAC .m4a) conversion
I have a couple posts going on the back burner, namely the re-foaming process on the 8″ woofer drivers from the Advent Heritage speakers I found in Greenpoint and the Mac Mini media server setup we have going now. But first, say you want to convert all the albums you ripped to FLAC to Apple [...]
March 23, 2009
I am Netatalk you are Netatalk we are Netatalk
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it spend all weekend working out Ubuntu 8.04 command line shell commands to make a beautiful thing happen? Namely, mount an Apple Time Capsule share over ethernet via Samba/CIFS and and then serve the data via mt-daapd to [...]
February 23, 2009
It goes – Ethernet > Airtunes > SPDIF > DAC
Got the two Airport Express Base Stations working on the network with Airtunes & iTunes. I bought an older 802.11b/g one for wired usage and an 802.11n one for wireless audio in the kitchen. I had to do hard resets on both of them before they’d show up on the Airport Utility. I turned off [...]
February 17, 2009
Firefly Transcodes FLAC > .WAV for iTunes & Airtunes
So I bit the bullet and ordered a couple of Airport Express base stations so that I can finally listen to music over both ethernet and 802.11n. A small miracle, the old Dell P3 is able to transcode the FLAC on a USB hard disk drive attached to the Time Capsule (a Samba share via [...]
December 2, 2008
The Radio
So there are a couple of stations local to NJ/NY that I really like. One is WKCR 89.9 FM Columbia University, and the other which I first stumbled upon when moving to New York is WFMU 91.1 & 90.1 FM. When I was driving my stuff up through Jersey four years ago they [...]
