Update Banshee’s internal audio file URIs after moving
28. August 2010
After moving the audio library to another place, the internal URIs of music known to Banshee has to be updated. There is no perfect way implemented into banshee. But maybe the “Rescan Music Library” works for you. If not, it’s easy to update its database because great sqlite3 is used.
# necessary tool installed? sudo apt-get install sqlite3 # change to config dir and backup cd ~/.config/banshee-1 cp banshee.db banshee.db.backup # dump track entrys to sql file sqlite3 banshee.db > .output CoreTracks.sql > .dump CoreTracks > .quit # update sql file sed 's,file:///old/and/much/too-long/path/to/music/,file:///new/path/music/,' < CoreTracks.sql > NewCoreTracks.sql # change db sqlite3 banshee.db > DROP TABLE "CoreTracks"; > .read NewCoreTracks.sql > .quit
Don’t forget to update the banshee preferences to the new path.
Peek Tiny URL from bit.ly, tiny.cc, etc
2. July 2010
If you want to see full addresses from URL shortening services like bit.ly (see Twitter), tiny.cc, tinyurl.com or even gimi.name/go I got something for you.
This code just looks up the redirection address and returns it to you. Every service with immediate redirection should work, because they use the same method.
function peekTinyURL($url) { $context = stream_context_create(array('http' => array('method' => "HEAD"))); $fp = fopen($url, 'r', false, $context); if(!$fp) { return false; } $header = fHttpHeader($fp, array('Location' => false)); fclose($fp); return $header['Location']; } // example $url="http://gimi.name/go/Ns1FO"; // redirects to this article $location = peekTinyURL($url); if($location) { echo "$url redirects to $location\r\n"; } else { echo "That didn't work. :(\r\n"; }
This code uses the function fHttpHeader from Short HTTP POST function for PHP
Live Demo:
Lighttpd and PHP for Ubuntu
6. May 2010
sudo apt-get install lighttpd php5-cgi sudo lighty-enable-mod fastcgi sudo /etc/init.d/lighttpd force-reload
NFS Mount fails: “RPC Error: Success”
29. April 2010
mount.nfs: mount to NFS server '$host:/$path' failed: RPC Error: Success
Solution:
mount -o nfsvers=2 $host:/$path $dst
Banshee and a “Mass Storage Media Player”
31. January 2010
cd /media/$device touch .is_audio_player
Works with SD or Phone Cards …
This is more like a hack for standart USB devices.
Thanks to hyperair.