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General Software Discussion / Re: 24 Hour Music Server

« on: July 12, 2007, 02:43 AM »

WMP is one proggie I would prefer not to use.

Does anyone have any more suggestions?

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General Software Discussion / 24 Hour Music Server

« on: July 11, 2007, 04:14 PM »

Hello,

I am looking for some software to realize a 24 hour music server.

This is the situation:

I have a large collection of Classical Indian Music Ragas which are supposed to be played only at certain time slots of the day (or night) to unfold theirs full effect.

These are three hour time slots.

So I have lets say a dozen Ragas in MP3 or OGG or Flac format, which go in a certain time slot.

Now I would like to fire up a program and which then automatically starts playing the correct ragas for the time of the day without any additional intervention.

Is that time over (let's say it's one o'clock) I want it to automatically go to the next playlist with the corresponding ragas for the next time slot from one to four o'clock and so on.

If I could have some more features, like have the pc go into hibernation at a preset time or when playing stops, even better.

Also some way to play random ragas from that playlist for the corresponding time would be great.

I have helped myself with batch files, which pass to Winamp the filenames of the ragas and at the same time start psshutdown to put the computer into hibernation when the playing has ended. But of course I had to manually start the batch file and was not able to switch to the new playlist when the next time period has started.

Would anybody have any idea?

I have read with interest your posts about jukeboxes, and thouhgt maybe somebody knows of a proggie that can do that.

Thanks for your help.

Kind Regards,

Brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need some help in recovery data from a damaged external HDD

« on: July 11, 2007, 03:03 PM »

Oh sorry,

just saw that the original question was from Februar and then the thread got revived. Oh well ... 

Maybe it will help some other people with similar problems!

Regards,


Brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need some help in recovery data from a damaged external HDD

« on: July 11, 2007, 02:59 PM »

If you are serious about your data, here is what you need to do:

1.) Never let Chkdsk do anything to a damaged hard drive, it will only make things worst and unrecoverable. 

2.) Attach the drive to a second IDE channel, since HD utilities cannot reliably read all drive data from a USB drive. Especially when you are trying to rebuild the MFT and recover partitions this is absolutely essential, since USB drives give wrong physical information to the OS.

3.) Don't do anything to the harddrive until you have mirrored the drive to another drive with special software (NOT with backup mirror software like Ghost or Acronis TI) that is used for HD recovery (pcinspector clonemaxx, Raw Copy by Roadkil http://roadkil.net/RawCopy.html is the only free util that does reverse copy, which is easier on a failing drive, driveimage xml clones from windows, http://copyr.tetroni...ownload/copyrR13.zip  copyr is the best free clone  util for inaccessible drives - though there are much better commercial ones).

4.) Start the actual recovery process:

Handy recovery has a very capable freeware solution after you have cloned the drive. Commercial: Restorer 2000, Handy Recovery later not free versions. All around HD solution: diyrecovery.nl. Testdisk is also very good but only if you really know the program (and not via USB!).

5.) Suggested further informations:

Here is an exhaustive freeware link collection for hard drive related troubles:

http://www.s2service...iskrecoverylinks.htm

Hope that helps. If you are careful and don't mess up too much, you should get all your data back, though it may take some time. 

Regards,

Brahman

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.125 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - July 7, 2007

« on: July 11, 2007, 01:48 PM »

Hi Mouser,

thank you so much for adding the tooltips so quickly.

Works beautiful! Helps a lot to keep the window small yet see the whole thing.

Great! 

Regards,

Brahman

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Find And Run Robot / Missing Tooltips

« on: July 08, 2007, 05:06 AM »

Hi,

great work, Mouser!

One thing I am missing (I believe it was in previous releases) is the tooltip when f.e. the full name of the file does not fit in the column.

It is important, because I work with very long names for my Start Menu shortcuts, which explain in detail what the many sw do best.

Thanks.

Brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: [free] dictionary -lingoes

« on: June 22, 2007, 09:02 AM »

Very good program!

The Longman Dictionary is particularly nice.

If you are a heavy German word user, I recommend LingoPad at

http://www.ego4u.com/en/lingopad

which has a better German dictionary. It is also freeware.

Get the Beta 2.61 which is vista ready here:

http://www.lingo4u.d...tionary_2_6_beta.exe

Regards,

Brahman

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Mini-Reviews by Members / InfoSelect 2007

« on: June 21, 2007, 10:53 AM »

After having tried many info dump programs, my favorite is InfoSelect 2007.

They also have again (after a many years hiatus) a 30 day trial version.

www.miclog.com

Pricey but in my opinion the best!

Greetings,

Brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your favorite Registry Viewer + Editor?

« on: March 29, 2007, 11:51 AM »

Regcool and Vilma are both free alternatives:
http://home.tiscali..../zdata/regcool_e.htm
http://www.vsft.com/regexp/

RegCool and the developers other programs are always in beta ... 

Regards,

Brahman

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine

« on: March 29, 2007, 11:03 AM »

I have been highly satisfied with the SynchronizeIt! / CompareIt! combo from Grigsoft. 

http://www.grigsoft.com/

In combination with Total Commander (which has an excellent synch tool itself, though the ability to do multiple batches is missing) SynchronizeIt! works superbly and I prefer it much over BeyondCompare, because it is simpler and much more intuitive to use, while in combination with Total Commander SI has at least the same functionality at a lower price.

Also speed is excellent, and it supports rar, zip and 7zip (in latest beta). Synchronize It! and CompareIt! integrate very well also: When you want to see exactly where the files differ, simply double click on the file pair and CompareIt! will do its magic, even comparing ini files if the sections are in different places within the file (if set up properly with the ini plugin). Then you can do a merge operation if you want line by line or change by change. In the new beta even binary comparisons are possible.

If you use them via Total Commander, you make a button on the button bar and then when you click on the button, both dirs are synched or files even within the same folder compared.

Some more info on TC integration is here:
http://www.grigsoft.com/art_totcmd.htm

SynchronizeIt! synchs folders, archives and FTP sites; it also has very powerful compare and synchronize files on non-connected PCs functions, logs and is very very fast. Preferences are stored in an ini file, thank god.

You can setup really complicated synch and backup jobs, exclude and include to your hearts content.

The interface is uncluttered and nicely designed. Download the current versions and then install the current (stable) betas/alphas over them, because the betas are bare bone programs only and this way you maintain help functionality.

SynchronizeIt! only costs about $14,50 or the combo with CompareIt! $29,50 and has a full function trial (the amounts are the 25% discounted prices by using coupon ICANSAVE). 

The developer is very responsive and genuinely interested in helping his users even with complicated situations. Forum answers are prompt.

I have tested many synching programs starting with the Laplink for DOS almost twenty years ago, and I have found this software to be the best in the market.

Kind Regards,

Brahman 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« on: January 17, 2007, 07:42 AM »

Please be so kind and send me a DL link.

Thanks,

Brahman