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iBrainer

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3 years ago
by Boris in

Shameless plug:

iBrainer is now ready for public use. Feel free to give it a try, either on download.com or iBrainer.net

In a nutshell: fix your MP3 collection in a snap. No more Unknown Artist or fixing tags yourself.

I might be biased, but I use it all the time — and I’m loving it!

Genpuid troubles

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4 years ago
by Boris in ,

Since there is no managed or open source way to get a PUID for MusicBrainz (Thank you, thank you MusicIP…), you have to call it as an external process. However, since Windows makes all the console-based executables have a character set of SBCSCodePageEncoding, accents get messed up.

After several hours of smashing my head against the wall and venting on GTalk w/ scottp, I finally got it to work:

Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ProcessObj.StandardOutput.CurrentEncoding.GetBytes(“yadda yadda”));

And now it all works. Yay! iBrainz is almost finished…

Working with MusicBrainz

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4 years ago
by Boris in , ,

I decided that while I’m on winter break, instead of doing something useful like.. I don’t know, finally getting some rest, I’ll code yet another MusicBrainz client. Yes, yet another project. Picard sucks and the MBTagger is being discontinued quite soon, so…

I stumbled upon Scott Peterson’s awesome MusicBrainz-Sharp library and I’ve been talking to him re: some issues it has, but so far it’s been great help. Kudos to you, Scott!

Suggestions,  comments, etc? Feel free to leave a comment!

(And here I thought MBTagger/Picard were slow… and it’s MusicBrainz.Org forcing you to do 1 query per second. Is it time to implement a separate server cache? Hrm… Maybe.)

Open-Source GPS

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4 years ago
by Boris in ,

Being sick of all the commercial GPS solutions out there, I’ve decided to start coding my own GPS solution – with autorouting and all! Let’s see how this goes…

So far I’ve already coded the NMEA/GPS integration. Took me about 30m to write it up; should be fun. IMO the hardest part will be getting the maps to work. Any takers on reverse engineering Destinator/TomTom/etc formats?

Once it’s finished, it should work on all .NET enabled platforms – standard and/or Mono-based. I’ll be supporting Windows Mobile as the standard mobile platform for development.

Drop me a line.

I miss Visual Basic

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4 years ago
by Boris in ,

I stopped using VB about 6 years ago, after VB6 was launched. Having since moved to PHP/Perl/C# and such, I miss one of its functions. Sure, VB programmers are spoiled – everything’s coded in. What I can’t understand is why VB.NET has an InputBox and C# doesn’t.

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