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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Foreground wallpaper

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 04:06 PM »

Hi, Blueplanet888, and welcome to the site.  Here you go:

Website | Download
v1.0.2 - 2011-09-07
    + Added slider to adjust transparency.  (Thanks, Blueplanet888)
    + Single-clicking the tray icon will now toggle the transparency effect. (Thanks, Blueplanet888)
    - Removed the 10%, 20%, 30% etc, entries from the tray menu in lieu of the slider.

An additional idea for further development (if Santa comes and commands you to make it NOW!  ) would be to autodetect the wallpaper image (Windows knows in the registry or other file which file it must wallpaperIZE. So you can stole the path from it there i think.)

-Blueplanet888 (September 07, 2011, 09:52 AM)

The problem with this is that there are so many of these "standard" locations across all the Windows versions that I'm not sure this is feasible.  Windows XP has three or four alone and I don't know about Vista and 7.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Add cover art to MP3 from command line

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 12:39 PM »

Hey, why didn't you tell me earlier? Could've saved me some work.     

-wr975 (September 07, 2011, 12:32 PM)

I apologise.     In hindsight, I really should have mentioned that method but it wasn't a commandline method as per your original request.

I didn't know MP3tag could so such thing. Sounds like a great program.

-wr975 (September 07, 2011, 12:32 PM)

mp3Tag is an awesome program and one definitely worth donating to (I did).  It is the only tagger I use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: custom reminder

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 10:30 AM »

Have you done any searches for "task management" and/or "reminder" software?  There are numerous options in these categories that you could use for your purposes.

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Finished Programs / Re: SOLVED: Add cover art to MP3 from command line

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 02:18 AM »

basically, I want to be able to drag and drop 950 folders onto this app (each has folder.jpg inside of it) and have them embed the photo to all of my mp3s, unicode or not and leave tags.

-stisev (September 07, 2011, 02:06 AM)

If you can't get wr975's solution to work, I would recommend using mp3Tag for this.  I have an "Import folder.jpg" action set up within the program that does this beautifully. 

• Choose: Actions > Actions from the menu.
• Click the New button, give your action a name and click OK.
• Click the New button again, and choose "Import cover from file" from the dropdown and click OK.
• Enter "folder.jpg" without the quotes into the field and, optionally, check the "Delete existing cover art" box.  Click OK a few times to get back to the main interface.
• Add all your music folders to the list, highlight them all, and choose your new Action from the list and sit back.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scan music collection for missing covers/artwork

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 02:07 AM »

Website | Download
v1.1.3 - 2011-09-07
    + Added sort arrows to the column headers.  (Thanks, zzynx)
    ! Fixed a clipboard copy bug.  (Thanks, stisev)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 01:49 AM »

If I have any more ideas for software, I will definitely let you know.

-stisev (September 07, 2011, 01:31 AM)

Sure, just post them to this Coding Snacks forum; that's what it's here for.  =]

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Scan music collection for missing covers/artwork

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 01:43 AM »

You're welcome.  I'm glad you found it useful.   

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 01:41 AM »

The only thing it needs now is "autocheck for updates on startup" and it's golden.

-stisev (September 07, 2011, 01:31 AM)

I don't add this to any of my apps.  Help, Check for Updates will have to do.  

What does "s" stand for in sPlaylistMarker?

-stisev (September 07, 2011, 01:31 AM)

It's sort of an inside joke that, when I can't think of a good name for an app, I add a small "s" in front of what it is.  The "s" can stand for anything you want.  skwire, stisev, small, simple, super, shitty, stupid, sucky...you get the idea.  

Also, thanks for mentioning me in credits! Wow!

-stisev (September 07, 2011, 01:31 AM)

You're welcome.  Thanks for the feedback and original request.  BTW, I assume one of the four write options covers your needs, eh?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 07, 2011, 01:21 AM »

I changed the name and gave this a full release on my website:

Website | Download
+ added
* changed
- deleted
! bug fixed

v1.0.0 - 2011-09-07
    + Initial release.



sPlaylistMaker allows you to easily create .m3u and .m3u8 playlists via drag-and-drop or via the commandline.  sPlaylistMaker will recursively scan  through dropped folders and create a playlist file in each folder with the name of that folder.  Existing playlist files are left untouched, though.  

sPlaylistMaker supports Unicode characters and offers four playlist writing options:

• "Automatic" - This mode will automatically determine which extension and file encoding type to use.  If any filenames in a given folder use non-ASCII characters, the resulting playlist file will use a .m3u8 extension and be written in UTF-8 format.  Otherwise, the playlist file will use a .m3u extension and be written in the system's default codepage.
• ".m3u, write ASCII" - This mode will always use the .m3u extension and files will always be written in the system's default codepage.
• ".m3u8, write UTF-8" - This mode will always use the .m3u8 extension and files will always be written in UTF-8 format.
• ".m3u, write UTF-8" - This mode will always use the .m3u extension but files will be written in UTF-8 format.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 06, 2011, 05:33 PM »

The only item in your request list that I didn't implement was "give user the option of m3u (ANSI) or m3u8 (UTF)" one.  Currently, all playlist files are written as UTF-8 with an m3u8 extension.  Also, my version doesn't create empty playlist files in folders where there are no audio files like the original CreateM3U app does.  Here's the download: CreateM3U8

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 06, 2011, 05:23 PM »

My version of CreateM3U is just about done.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 05, 2011, 02:01 PM »

Do you use the commandline features of it?  Or just the GUI?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 05, 2011, 12:48 PM »

If SnapList won't cover your needs, I can write you a CreateM3U clone that will handle Unicode characters.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 05, 2011, 12:03 PM »

The page says SnapPlay but the app is called SnapList.  It saves the resulting playlist files as UTF-8

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Batch m3u8 creator - similar to createm3u

« Last post by skwire on September 05, 2011, 10:36 AM »

SnapList will do what you want.

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Living Room / Re: Building a home server. Please help, DC!

« Last post by skwire on September 03, 2011, 10:05 PM »

superboyac, in regards to a backbone switch, what they're referring to is the ethernet switch you're going to be using in this setup of yours.  In other words, you have your desktop and this forthcoming server.  You're going to have to network them together using an ethernet switch of some sort.  Knowing your preferences, this will certainly have to be a gigabit speed switch. The load-balancing and NIC teaming that's being spoken of is more commonly called aggregated ethernet.  This means that your server has two or more gigabit network cards that, along with the switch, can be configured to act as one multi-gigabit capable network interface.  Obviously, the switch itself must have this capability, too (and not nearly all switches do).  Does this help clear things up?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free simple database progam needed (that can import from Works DB ideally)

« Last post by skwire on September 03, 2011, 12:08 PM »

How simple of a database app is your friend looking for?  Maybe my Snap DB app could be of some use?  FWIW, it can easily import CSV files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for very light IM (ICQ) client

« Last post by skwire on September 03, 2011, 08:51 AM »

What do you guys think? Is all this extensive skinning an overkill? Should the IM app really stick with a native appearance?

-apankrat (September 03, 2011, 02:09 AM)

Regarding my use of Miranda (and almost any other app), I don't use any sort of skinning with it.  So, yes, I would say forego any skinning and stay with the system's native appearance.

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General Software Discussion / Re: recommend a flexible *command line capable* MP3 tag and rename program?

« Last post by skwire on September 02, 2011, 07:20 PM »

Back in the day, there was tag.exe by Ca5e.  However, it seems that his original site is no more.     You can grab the latest version I had in my archives from my site:  http://www.skwire.net/~apps/misc/tag.zip

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Tag - Automatic Tag from filename
Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Case.  Minor additions by Neil Popham, 2004-2007
Version 2.0.52, Compiled 2007-05-04

Usage: Tag [options] <filenames / directories / @file_with_parameters>
Wildcards are supported in filenames and directories

Options:
 --title   <value> : set title to <value>
 --artist  <value> : set artist to <value>
 --album   <value> : set album to <value>
 --year    <value> : set year to <value>
 --comment <value> : set comment to <value>
 --track   <value> : set track number to <value>
 --genre   <value> : set genre to <value>

Tag fields can also be set with:
 -t <item=x>       : set tag item <item> to value <x>
 -f <item=x>       : set tag item <item> from content of file <x>

 --help            : show full help

Supported tags: ID3v1, ID3v2 (reading), APE v1.0, APE v2.0, Vorbis, FLAC, Lyrics3 v2.0.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: [Release] SRTFilter: Simple Automatic Subtitle Editor & Renamer

« Last post by skwire on September 02, 2011, 05:31 PM »

Welcome to the site, antekgla.  Thanks for sharing your application.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for very light IM (ICQ) client

« Last post by skwire on September 02, 2011, 05:29 PM »

You probably don't even need to bother building it as there are several contact list UIs that you can use with Miranda.  I prefer simple icons and plain-text, so I use the very sparse "Classic contact list" (clist_classic.dll).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for very light IM (ICQ) client

« Last post by skwire on September 02, 2011, 02:39 PM »

I've used Miranda IM for ten years now (since it was strictly an ICQ clone called Miranda ICQ).  Because it's plugin based, you can strip out all that you don't want.  I use it for ICQ, Jabber, Yahoo, MSN, GTalk, and AIM.  Great application.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Key counting script

« Last post by skwire on September 01, 2011, 05:36 PM »

Also, that works just fine, I don't think that I'll need any other updates, I appreciate your work. Thank you very much.

-Robby250 (September 01, 2011, 05:33 PM)

You're welcome.  I'm glad I was able to help.   

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Key counting script

« Last post by skwire on September 01, 2011, 05:11 PM »

Double post as a notification perhaps?

-Robby250 (September 01, 2011, 03:50 PM)

Please understand that I am employed full-time and that I do these Coding Snacks when I can get to them in my spare time.

Any news of the AltGr fix though?

-Robby250 (September 01, 2011, 09:53 AM)

If I'm understanding your issue, I don't think this is something I can fix.

Edit4:I binded those like I said, now all I need is a version of the app without the browser forward and back. Could you make one for me please?

-Robby250 (September 01, 2011, 09:53 AM)

Grab the latest build from the same URL as above.  In this build you will find two additional files: Keys.txt & KeyExclusions.txt.  Keys.txt contains a complete list of countable key names.  If you want keys excluded, add the respective names, one per line, to the KeyExclusions.txt file and restart KeyCount.

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Living Room / Re: Building a home server. Please help, DC!

« Last post by skwire on September 01, 2011, 02:31 PM »

FWIW, I don't think 10+ TB of data space is over-the-top.  I currently have 12TB of space in my Windows Home Server box.