Organise your music with Rhythmbox File Organizer

Basically this is a short plug for my Rhythmbox Plugin, Fileorganizer. The plugin Supports all the latest versions of Rhythmbox in current distros. HomepageDownload Fileorganizer is a Rhythmbox Plugin that will move and rename files according to your tags and then update the database so you don’t lose your ratings and play counts. Don’t waste your …

MiniDLNA: The best streaming software hands down!

*UPDATE* – minidlna is now a package in Debian! It’s also a package in Ubuntu 11.10 so you can just install it from your package manager. 😉 I stream to my Xbox 360 and other devices from a file server in the office. For years I’ve used (and purchased) TwonkyMedia Server but I was never …

Forget Samba. Use sshfs!

Background: sshfs is something i only just stumbled across after 5 years of using linux and i could just kick myself for all the effort this would have saved me. Because i prefer the couch to a desk I wanted to rename and retag my music collection remotely using audio tag tool. (packagename tagtool) tagtool …

Create a local deb repository

If you download a lot of individual deb files and use them over multiple computers a good idea might be to use a central place to store your deb files. if you store them offline and maintain a lot of systems. downloading once and updating your repo will be a lot better than downloading the …