Samsung's Hardware is pretty awesome. It's like they are Sony in the 80's, or Nintendo until 2006. Sadly, Samsung's software is a bit worse*.

So here is a thing I made to convert metadata formats for use with Samsung's range of media players.

This should allow conversion of such playlist formats as M3U, M3U8, PLS, and WPL. It will also handle basic cleaning of ASS, SSA and SRT formats for external subtitle files, for those of you who are up-to-date with your firmware.

If you have a suggestion for improvement to this converter, feel free to use the comments section…

This is now a regular feature! The last one was "Another Retrospective" (http://www.last.fm/user/Gnac/journal/2006/12/31/302256/).
This one has had more effort put in.

µ-Ziq

Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique
Ah yes, what better way to start a rundown of this year's notable albums than with a disappointment. Apparently this is too dark for me. It's not boring at all, no. Each track is totally unique, fresh and exciting.
I can't even pick out a single standout track here, so let's leave it at that.

Standout tracks: feh.

Aesop Rock

None Shall Pass
Ace is one of the few Hip-hop artists keeping the…

My last journal entry was really shit (even though I hoped it would accurately convey my distaste for list entries while simultaneously demonstrating how effortlessly you can draw people to look at your profile with them), so I'm putting more effort and cynicism into this one.

I used to buy a certain weekly music paper religiously from 1998-2001, before my musical tastes evolved and I got fed up with reading about what I should like. I recently bought aforementioned music paper again not long ago to see if anything exciting had happened in six years, and I remembered one thing…

This entry serves two main purposes: one is sort of useful and the other(s) is/are utterly stupid.

First, the stupid reasons: to pimp this link in the artist pages of everyone I listen to, to shamelessly get people to click on it, and to annoy those who did.

Second, to test a PHP script which automatically extracts data from Winamp generated HTML playlists - so I can honestly say that this DOES contain everything on my playlist at the time I made this entry.

1300 Items

1
1-Speed Bike (1-Speed Bike)
13 & God (13 & God…

At least 15 years ago, there was a bunch of cheeky monkey-boys called The Stone Roses. This entry is not to debate about how badly they lost it after snorting the marching powder, but it is intended as a quirky observation on how this band have influenced the most unlikely of artists. If not in spirit, definitely in melody.

Stone Roses fans will be familiar with a song called The I Am the Resurrection; Stones Roses fags (meaning: those like me who can tolerate even the Garage Flower stuff) will be even more familiar with its distinctive bassline,…

A sort of sequel to last year's "Obligatory Retrospective List Entry" (http://www.last.fm/user/Gnac/journal/2005/12/29/50986/) Only with some different stuff in and less effort put in. Eh, sometimes I buy stuff and forget about it.

EDIT: Sorry, a lot of these don't appear to be streamable.

Boards of Canada

Trans Canada Highway
BoC is one of those outfits I didn't know I'd already heard. I made an effort to find as much of their old material as possible, and I was suprised at how many songs I recognised. Even this release sounded familiar… have I heard the songs before, or is the style…

As I fumble this rare journal entry out, I'm trying to put into words my excitement at having found a long-lost choon. Some backstory to this choon will ensue while I calm the hell down!

Back in around 2002'ish, I was getting my nightly dose of John Peel's show on Radio 1 (gawd bless'im). On one particular night, the show had some sort of technical difficulties for about an hour, so an "emergency tape" had whirred into life until someone could shove all the guts back into whatever had exploded in the studio. This tape had some quality moments, but…

"hey look we are female and we are menstruating over your shitty male-dominated industry"

YAWN.

I've been listening to a lot of Bonnie Pink, Kahimi Karie and Lali Puna lately, and I've noticed that my playlist is now too nice. It's devoid of SKULLFUCKING NOISES.

To remedy this, I need some GRR METAL, and / or general antisocial mayhem in the vein of Venetian Snares or Melt-Banana. The noisier / harder to listen to the better.

http://www.last.fm/forum/21713/_/78807

Oh dear. This user paid $3 and expects instant service. I'd like the charts to update as much as anyone, but I also know that once you've run out of space, there are few options available. You could buy more space, make more by pruning old data, or you could think of nifty ways to compress it. These things can't be done in a snap; I know from 5 years of messing with Databases and full hard drives.

I also know how stressful it can be to fix a large problem on a live website with a lot of…