Analog-Theater 2.0

Well now, we do have a lot to cover but I can’t remember half of what I wanted to talk about now.

Lets see.  Betty Crocker!  You buggers.  I bought your Chocolate Chip cookie mix, and wow did that not work out right.  The directions are fairly simplistic, but what came out of the oven wasn’t work the $3.00 for the bag.

Silk Soymilk.  Dear WhiteWave, I have enjoyed your Organic product for years.  This sudden shift to all natural is nonsense.  At least let me know you are going to change the formula and mark up the one I’ve been buying.   I’ve spent hours trying to nail down exactly what is required to call food “All Natual” and have had no luck.  I’ve scoured the FDA website to no end, but it turns out that no one really regulates it.  So, guess what, I am now buying the cheaper Organic store brand.  Thank you.

Lets see, what else is going on.

I went to see Star Trek.  I highly recommend this.  Very good movie, but did they need to kill 6 Billion folks to break the story line?

Amarok 2.0.2

Many of you are likely aware that I don’t always use Windows.  I tend to move around and my desktop of preference is KDE 4.2.2 at the moment.  Recently I went and installed Kubuntu 9.04 and noticed that I was having some serious difficulty in getting the Vocal Trance channel at di.fm to launch.  I’ve never had this problem before, for the last several years it has been simply click the link in Firefox and then point it to the program I want to have open it.  In the past this has always been Amarok.  Amarok has been a wonderful program that played everthing I wanted it to, and has done so with optimal sound quality.  But that was version 1.4 Amarok Fast Forward.  Today  I discovered the bloody aftermath of a bad train wreck on an interstate with a downed international flight that they for some reason call Amarok 2.0.2.

The new process to open steaming audio is to launch Amarok and try to figure out the interface.  This is not easy, to save time I recommend The Right of AshkEnte, but for those of you who aren’t up to summoning death, well your on your own.  Once you have mastered the interface visit your favorite online radio station and download the .pls file.  With Amarok open, click the Amarok drop down menu, open the .pls file, and then double click on the odd looking set of numbers with dots (ip address) now in the playlist field on the right…I think that is the playlist field.  I gave up and simply started using VLC.

Edit:

It appears that you can actually click the play button once you have told it to play the .pls file.  Why you need to download a playlist file, then manually point Amarok to this file, and then after having told it to play this file, click play I have no idea.  1.4 would open the file and play.

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