MeyerBros

video: mplayerplug-in is great. After half a day wrestling with plugger and mozplugger and totem, with little success, mplayerplug-in works straight out of the box. Embedded streaming video in Linux. Beautiful. (Stop laughing, Mac user. You can’t understand.)

audio: podcasts and bashpodder are great. Contents of my bp.conf: democracynow.org, radio.linuxquestions.org, lugradio.org, twatech.org, hackermedia.org, colts.com and newworldarts.org. Perfect driving-around-the-rez listening material for when KILI is playing bad country (which is most afternoons) and NPR is boring (which is occasionally).

Not exactly great, but functional: gnomad2, which lets me copy mp3s to my Creative Zen mp3 player from Linux. Ideally I would be able to treat the Zen as a plain old filesystem, so I could rip CDs or download podcasts straight to it and eliminate a step of the process. Apparently this is more difficult than it seems, because the Zen stores files in a database, not a flat filesystem - but the folks over at Neutrino are working on it with njbstack.

I also had something political that I was going to blog about this morning after listening to Democracy Now! But now I forget what it was.

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