Clean up music tags with a Groovy script
Aug30

Clean up music tags with a Groovy script

Clean up music tags with a Groovy script Chris Hermansen Tue, 08/30/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this Lately, I’ve been looking at how Groovy streamlines Java. In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In my last article, I used the framework developed previously to create a list of unique file names and counts of occurrences of those file names in...

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Share screens on Linux with GNOME Connections
Aug30

Share screens on Linux with GNOME Connections

Share screens on Linux with GNOME Connections Seth Kenlon Tue, 08/30/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this When someone needs to share their screen with you, or you need to share your screen with someone else, you have several options to choose from. Video conferencing software, like the open source Jitsi web app, and while we call that “screen sharing,” it’s really presenting. You’re...

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Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy
Aug29

Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy

Clean up unwanted files in your music directory using Groovy Chris Hermansen Mon, 08/29/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In the last article, we used the framework created for analyzing the directory and sub-directories of music files, checking to make sure each album has a cover.jpg file and recording...

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4 ways to use the Linux tar command
Aug29

4 ways to use the Linux tar command

4 ways to use the Linux tar command AmyJune Hineline Mon, 08/29/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like When you have a lot of related files, it’s sometimes easier to treat them as a single object rather than 3 or 20 or 100 unique files. There are fewer clicks involved, for instance, when you email one file compared to the mouse work required to email 30 separate files. This quandary was solved...

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How I use Groovy to analyze album art in my music directory
Aug28

How I use Groovy to analyze album art in my music directory

How I use Groovy to analyze album art in my music directory Chris Hermansen Sun, 08/28/2022 – 03:00 Register or Login to like Register or Login to like In this series, I’m developing several scripts to help in cleaning up my music collection. In the last article, I used the framework I created for analyzing the directory and sub-directories of music files and carried out the analysis with the fine open source JAudiotagger...

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My favorite open source library for analyzing music files
Aug27

My favorite open source library for analyzing music files

My favorite open source library for analyzing music files Chris Hermansen Sat, 08/27/2022 – 03:00 1 reader likes this 1 reader likes this In my previous article, I created a framework for analyzing the directories and subdirectories of music files, using the groovy.File class, which extends and streamlines java.File and simplifies its use. In this article, I use the open source JAudiotagger library to analyze the tags of the...

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