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Back in October I started work on a new app for PiBox: an XM radio player. The hardware is an XMPCR, a device sold in the early 2000’s that connected over USB to a PC. The device didn’t last long. I think there was some concern that people would steal […]

PiBox: XM radio app (PiXM) and wifi scanning in PNC

Wed December 14, 2016 in Audio / General / GTK+ / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / PiBox Network Config / PiClock / PiXM / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / XMPCR tagged Android / busybox / colorado springs / graphics / GTK+ / laptop / Linux / linux journal / Media Server / PiBox / Radio / Raspberry Pi / Roku / routers / signal / Sirius / ui components / video playback / video player / wifi / ximba / xm radio / xmpcr

One of the longterm goals for PiBox is to integrate it into the home. I want to see the PiBox Server provide centralized communication for an array of IoT devices. One way to do this is with Bluetooth Low-Energy, aka BLE, aka Bluetooth 4.0. This specification allows very low power […]

PiBox: bluetooth for video means no omxplayer

Mon July 27, 2015 in Audio / Hardware / Linux / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / Software Development / Video tagged crosstool-ng / gcc / kernel / Linaro / mplayer / PiBox / Raspberry Pi / toolchain / Video / video player

I'm still a Fedora user, even after years of releases that seem to cause more headaches than they solve. I understand it's a bleeding edge distro. But at the current rate of change it's bound to bleed out by the end of the year. Systemd is a pain for me […]

F19 upgrade: is this really getting better?

Tue August 06, 2013 in Fedora / GTK+ / Linux / NVidia / PulseAudio / X11 / XFce

I've posted a page linking to my Slideshare presentation on Crunch Cloud, a product my company (or rather the software group) is working on. This presentation has the added bonus of audio – my voice reading from a script I wrote for the slides. Kind of a cool process to […]

New slide presentation with audio: Crunch Cloud

Tue January 19, 2010 in Audio / CEI / General / Links / Writing tagged Cloud / crunch / slide presentation

I’ve been having problems playing flash video on my new system at home. The system is a 64bit AMD running F10. Flash video plays but the audio skips a lot. I had similar problems with other applications but was able to get around it by using the right audio setup, […]

Quickies: Flash 64, fixing skipping audio, mapping keys to applications

Thu March 26, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Linux / PulseAudio / x86-64 tagged 64bit amd / f10 / Fedora / flash player plugin / gnome / keyboard shortcuts / keycodes / logitech internet navigator / MythTV / X11 / xine / xmodmap

AcidRip hasn’t been updated in a long time. In fact, I’m not even sure anyone is maintaining it anymore. But I still use it quite a bit. Today I noticed, after an yum update for F10, that the previews just wouldn’t work anymore. So I looked at the debug window […]

AcidRip mod: Fix for faulty previews

Sat March 14, 2009 in Audio / Hardware / Linux tagged acidrip / f10 / mplayer / sdl / update / Video / yum (updated 5523 days ago)

Prior to F10 I always created a second user that I allowed to display applications on my desktop that I use to launch a second instance of Firefox. There are lots of reasons to want to do this. The most obvious is that the second user is completely isolated from […]

Multiple Firefox instances with different network settings

Mon March 09, 2009 in Audio / Fedora / Firefox / Linux / PulseAudio tagged f10 / Fedora / firefox / gnome / MythTV / MythWeb / proxy / PulseAudio / sound drivers

I got an email from XM Radio last month stating that my multi-radio discount would be going away in March. I have two radios subscribed (though we actually have more radios than that, they just aren’t all turned on right now), both in our cars. The increase in price is […]

XM Radio and Linux? Who cares.

Wed March 04, 2009 in Audio tagged Cinemagic / djs / iPod / ipod nano / music / Radio / Sirius / xm radio

The Boulder Linux User Group mailing list had a short but interesting discussions today. Karl Horlen asked how he could reduce a constant buzz he was receiving from his power amp/speaker connected to his laptop. The buzz only occurs when the power supply is plugged in. I found this problem […]

Reducing audio buzz for the average guy

Fri January 30, 2009 in Acer Aspire 1690i / Audio / Hardware tagged battery powered speakers / Boulder / cheap microphone / electromagnetic interference / ground loop / isolation transformers / laptop / recording

I'm building a mythclient for use at home. It's being installed on FC5 using the ATRPMS repository so I can do a simply yum install mythtv-suite. Except that there is a missing dependency that, as it turns out, is hard as hell to resolve. MythMusic depends on libmp4ff which (after […]

MythTV 0.19 and Fedora yum dependency problem: libmp4ff

Mon September 04, 2006 in Audio / MythTV tagged atrpms / Fedora / Linux / MythTV / rpm / yum

My daughter won the Colorado High School 4A State Championship for #2 Singles in tennis this past weekend. High school team tennis runs with 7 lines, with 3 singles lines (1-3) and 4 doubles (1-4). My daughter plays line 2, primarily because the state champion at line 1 is also […]

Linux video editing: Avidemux2

Fri May 19, 2006 in Audio / Linux / MythTV / Video tagged Fedora / graphics / Linux / MythTV / Video / yum (updated 6553 days ago)

I’ve recently discovered that XM Radio provides streaming audio for subscribers with existing radio id accounts. I have multiple radios, so I thought I’d give it a try. The web interface only supports Windows and Macs – no Linux. Fortunately, there is a way around that. The streaming audio is […]