Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-WEB] Developing the HantsLUG website

2012-10-18 Thread pavithran
On 16 October 2012 13:49, Philip Stubbs wrote: > I think Alan is right. > > Installing a fresh new CMS will generate some excitement, it does > nothing for the longer term. +1 to that . Wordpress with a decent theme should work nicely . Security patches should be regularly applied to it . Regard

Re: [Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
If I were going to do this, I'd use mp3fs (see, for example, http://www.roysindre.no/a/2008/12/10/convert-flac-to-mp3-on-the-fly-with-mp3fs/). That uses fuse to convert to mp3 on the fly; however, I'm not sure that it is exactly what you need. -- We're looking for smart Linux people: http://www.ti

Re: [Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Vic
> Question - > does anyone have a script to take a whole tree of files (artist / album / > tracks) and convert them to a similar tree structure of just mp3 files? Not exactly... Amarok used to have the facility to recognise portable devices and do on-the-fly conversion when you moved tracks to t

Re: [Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Sean Gibbins
On 18/10/12 14:30, Alex Dicks wrote: I'm too lazy to have bothered to write a script to do this. I have my ripped music saved as FLAC, and use SoundConverter to compress them into more portable formats as required. It's clever enough to spawn multiple threads and

Re: [Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Alex Dicks
On 18/10/12 12:18, Edward Beckmann wrote: My music collection on the PC (all my purchased CDs) is of the highest quality available - some CDs were flac, others wav or mp3. That's fine when I am sat at the PC, but I want to create mp3 copies of the whole collection to put onto portable devices (cu

[Hampshire] Audio collection to mp3

2012-10-18 Thread Edward Beckmann
All I admit I'm asking for an answer before trying to write one myself, mainly because I use scripts so rarely that between times I forget how to write them! So please forgive my apparent laziness. My music collection on the PC (all my purchased CDs) is of the highest quality available - some CDs

Re: [Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]

2012-10-18 Thread Benjie Gillam
On 18 Oct 2012, at 08:48, Anton Piatek wrote: > We could perhaps try and combine any of the meetups where there are > overlaps - Southackton recently had a hack day and there would have > been space for people to turn up and talk about linux hacking rather > than just robotics and 3d printers. The

[Hampshire] [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]

2012-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
> LUG / Hackerspace relations: (subject line [ADMIN][IMP-HACK]) > Hackerspaces are becoming more prevalant, and I don't believe that > they > are any sort of threat to the LUG. I think there is a lot to learn from making > and building things, and there's a lot of information in both the L

[Hampshire] [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]

2012-10-18 Thread Anton Piatek
> Christmas Lecture: (subject line [ADMIN][INI-CHRISTMAS]) > This is meant to be something a bit special for the December meeting. > The > plan is to hold a formal lecture (open to the public) with a guest speaker; > followed by a formal dinner for HantsLUG members. I am trying to get this