The world won’t listen

Everyone has heard of stories about hidden messages in songs, many of which could only be heard by playing the record backwards. That was in the vinyl era. CD owners had to rip their songs into wav files and process them with a suitable software tool. For example the manpage of SoX describes its reverse […]

Although it doesn’t officially end until 21 September, the best days of summer are gone, so I’m using the title of a single by British band Disco Inferno to post again after two months of inactivity.
This has been a good summer overall. I went a lot to the beach, attended many concerts, spent a lot […]

I’ve had a great time in Primavera Sound 2007. It was a really good festival and -despite some flaws this year- very well organised.

This time more than 100 artists and bands played in the festival so it’s really hard to summarize everything in a few lines. Some of my favourite concerts were (in no particular […]

I’m glad to announce that, after some months of unofficial packages, John Stamp is now the official Debian maintainer of the Last.fm client.
You can find his packages in the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. So if you’re using the development version of either distribution you can forget about this page and install this software using […]

We had a great time last weekend at DudesConf. We met a lot of Debian people from all parts of Spain (and some non-Spaniards too) and had some interesting talks and BOFs. Check Mario’s report and don’t miss our photo with Steve Langasek!
As usual, John has been doing the hard work and has updated the […]

Johh has backported the latest patches he created for the etch/edgy versions of Last.fm to version 1.0.7, so Debian sarge and Ubuntu dapper users can benefit for them. Changes include the ability to select the web browser from the configuration dialog, a new ALSA plugin and some other minor fixes.
Last.fm 1.1.3.0 for Debian etch and […]

Although there are only official binaries of Last.fm for x86 processors, faxm0dem has managed to have Last.fm compiled for amd64. And it seems to work, so I put it in my webpage.
Currently just for Debian etch, but I guess it should work in Ubuntu edgy too.

Just a couple of days after we published an update for Last.fm 1.0.9.6, a new version was released: Last.fm 1.1.3.0.
Besides some bugfixes, the UI has been translated into several languages, so you can run this program in english, italian, german, french, spanish, portuguese, polish, russian, japanese and korean.
Moreover, this time the Last.fm team has released […]

John has been working in the Last.fm client code and prepared some nice patches, so here’s a new minor release for Debian etch (1.0.9.6-0etch3) and Ubuntu edgy (1.0.9.6-0edgy3).
Changes include:

Some leaks were fixed, so now the client wastes less memory ;-)
A new ALSA plugin has been introduced.
Users can select the web browser from the options dialog.

Get […]

I have updated the last.fm packages for Debian sarge (1.0.7-0sarge2) and Ubuntu dapper (1.0.7-0dapper2). This update solves a bug that caused the program to segfault when double clicking on Friends.
Download them at http://people.igalia.com/berto.
Version 1.0.9.6 is not affected by this bug, so if you’re using Debian etch or Ubuntu edgy you don’t need to do anything.
Happy […]