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iTSfv Explorer enhancements

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Enhancement #1 iTunes Users with "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" setting disabled, can use iTSfv to add new music to the library to a specified folder in the folder structure they like to have. For example, if you have Default Music folder location set to be F:Music in iTSfv Options > Explorer and you have music folder structure set to %Genre%%AlbumArtist% - (%Year%) %Album% then when you add / drag new music (e.g. Artist: Infected Mushroom, Album;  Vicious Delicious) to iTSfv it will first copy the files to F:MusicPsy-TranceInfected Mushroom - (2007) Vicious Delicious folder and start adding to iTunes Status Bar in the screenshot below demonstrates a similar instance: The options required to archive this are below:   Enhancement #2 iTSfv can also automatically add newly found music to iTunes. For this option to work you will need to enable Folder Watch.

iTSfv Explorer enhancements

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Enhancement #1 iTunes Users with "Keep iTunes Music folder organized" setting disabled, can use iTSfv to add new music to the library to a specified folder in the folder structure they like to have. For example, if you have Default Music folder location set to be F:\Music in iTSfv Options > Explorer and you have music folder structure set to %Genre%\%AlbumArtist% - (%Year%) %Album% then when you add / drag new music (e.g. Artist: Infected Mushroom, Album;  Vicious Delicious) to iTSfv it will first copy the files to F:\Music\Psy-Trance\Infected Mushroom - (2007) Vicious Delicious\ folder and start adding to iTunes Status Bar in the screenshot below demonstrates a similar instance: The options required to archive this are below:   Enhancement #2 iTSfv can also automatically add newly found music to iTunes. For this option to work you will need to enable Folder Watch.

Windows Vista Media Center uses 200x200 Artwork

Some interesting findings about VMC and WMP11. Both WMP11 and Windows Vista Media Center (VMC) cache the artwork from the tracks in the WMP library as 200x200. In a Windows VMC PC there will be two locations: one by VMC and the other by WMP11.  The artwork cache by VMC is a DAT file. The VMC artwork cache location is as follows: C:\Users\%UserName%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\eHome\Art Cache\ UrlToCoverArt.dat The artwork cache files generated by WMP11 are named based on some sort of a GUID which is not yet figured out by me. The WMP11 artwork cache location is as follows: C:\Users\%UserName%\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS C:\Documents and Settings\%UserName%Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS To make VMC use higher resolution artwork you would need to replace 200x200 files in C:\Users\%UserName%\Appdata\Local\Microsoft\Media Player\Art Cache\LocalMLS and/or update the reference in the UrlToCoverArt.dat file to

Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone

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As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “ Acid2 Face ” correctly in IE8 standards mode. If you’re not a web developer, the details of this blog post probably aren’t all that interesting for you. I’d like you to know that we’re building IE8 for many different customers (consumers, web service providers, independent software vendors, enterprises, web developers, and others), and we’ll cover more details of the non-developer oriented work (e.g. user experience, reliability, security, etc.) in other posts in the future, after MIX . While web developers will immediately recognize what Acid2 means, I want to step back and offer some context for other readers of this blog who may not be familiar with web standards. Briefly: Acid2 is one test of how modern browsers work with some specific features across several different web standards. Read more at IEBl

Office 2007 SP1 Download Links

Office 2007 Service Pack 1 http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=DC102486291033&Origin=HH102511011033&CTT=5 Visio 2007 Service Pack 1 http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=DC102486301033&Origin=HH102511011033&CTT=5 Project 2007 Service Pack 1 http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=DC102486311033&Origin=HH102511011033&CTT=5 Microsoft Office Visio Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B109187E-6FEE-48B7-B822-9D9143A2891A&displaylang=en&hurl=7A3FFFD36A32B0E9980C4EAB6772B2E0&QueryID=_AaCbOCQ00&respos=12&rt=2&pid=CD102003431033 Microsoft Office Project Language Pack 2007 Service Pack 1 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D322BA67-B199-4503-8AFF-6813B320D708&displaylang=en&hurl=79C9FEA313EF2478A25AEF9F85488A05&QueryID=_AaCbOCQ00&respos=15&rt=2&pid=CD102179521033 Microsoft Office S

Eyes Of Eden - Faith

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An awesome album for this being their debut album. I have bolded the really good ones. 01 Winter Night [245 Kibit/s] [6,758 KiB] 02 When Gods Fall [229 Kibit/s] [6,350 KiB] 03 Star [228 Kibit/s] [6,602 KiB] 04 Pictures [240 Kibit/s] [7,595 KiB] 05 Dancing Fire [233 Kibit/s] [5,833 KiB] 06 Sleeping Minds [217 Kibit/s] [6,626 KiB] 07 Daylight [234 Kibit/s] [7,221 KiB] 08 Man In The Flame [228 Kibit/s] [7,563 KiB] 09 From Heaven Sent [231 Kibit/s] [7,534 KiB] 10 Not Human Kind [201 Kibit/s] [15,072 KiB]

Windows XP SP3 RC1

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system. Microsoft made a build of XP SP3 available to subscribers to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers on December 3. At that time, company officials declined to say when the company planned to make a public test build of XP SP3 available. Microsoft officials have said the final XP SP3 bits should be available some time in the first half of 2008. Who knows: If the Windows team follows in the Office 2007 team’s “underpromise/overdeliver” footsteps, maybe we’ll see the final XP SP3 release a few months early….) XP SP3 is primarily a collection of fixes and updates that Microsoft has released over the past few years since it rolled out XP SP2 in 2004. XP SP3 also does include a few brand-new features, like black-hole r

Windows XP SP3 RC1

Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) includes all previously released updates for the operating system. This update also includes a small number of new functionalities, which do not significantly change customers experience with the operating system. Microsoft made a build of XP SP3 available to subscribers to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet subscribers on December 3. At that time, company officials declined to say when the company planned to make a public test build of XP SP3 available. Microsoft officials have said the final XP SP3 bits should be available some time in the first half of 2008. Who knows: If the Windows team follows in the Office 2007 team’s “underpromise/overdeliver” footsteps, maybe we’ll see the final XP SP3 release a few months early….) XP SP3 is primarily a collection of fixes and updates that Microsoft has released over the past few years since it rolled out XP SP2 in 2004. XP SP3 also does include a few brand-new features, like black-hole router

Messenger Plus! Live 4.50 Impressions

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A great feature now is that you can have separate chat logs for separate accounts!  

Nemesea - Mana

Nemesea, a female fronted gothic metal/rock band founded by vocalist Manda and guitar player Hendrik in September 2002 at the conservatory in Groningen. Subsequent recruits thereafter would be second guitarist Martijn, bassplayer Sonny, and Steven on drums. After recording a 3 song demo Nemesea debuted live as support act to After Forever. Shortly after that Nemesea signed a deal with the small local label Ebony Tears in September of 2003 and recorded the debut album Mana in February of the following year in various studios. Maybe the most impressive thing of this release is the beautiful voice of Manda Ophuis. Making Mana was a lot of effort, but made the band an instant rising star on the musical horizon. Nemesea toured intensively with After Forever but also did a lot of headline shows later on which gained the band a lot of attention and dedicated fans. Not to mention the great reviews. In 2006 the band signed up at sellaband.com. Within a couple of months the band gathered many b

iTSfv now integrates TreeGUI functionality

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It all worked out smoothly. The next build of iTSfv will include a new checkBox in File System tab to export the index file of the album as TXT or HTML to the album folder.

iTSfv now integrates TreeGUI functionality

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It all worked out smoothly. The next build of iTSfv will include a new checkBox in File System tab to export the index file of the album as TXT or HTML to the album folder.

Gotta love OOP

Been making TreeGUI for 2 years but never thought of accessing its Library from another project. I thought of adding indexing capabilities to iTSfv via TreeGUI library. Initially thought there would be a lot of code adjustments to do but it turned out really easy. Dim tgApp As New TreeGUI.cAdapter tgApp.GetConfig.FolderList.Add("F:MusicKylie MinogueFever") Dim tnl As New TreeGUI.cTreeNetLib(tgApp) tnl.IndexNow(cAdapter.IndexingMode.IN_EACH_DIRECTORY) That's all you have to do to successfully index a folder and create a index.html. Any other custom configuration is possible upon need.

ExtractorX - an update

You probably remember the initial version released a few weeks back. Here is an update. 1.0.1.0 Made compatible with .NET Framework 2.0 instead of .NET Framework 3.5 1.0.0.1 Only copied the first NFO file if there were multiple NFO files present 1.0.0.0 Initial Release   Download: v1.0.1

ExtractorX - an update

You probably remember the initial version released a few weeks back. Here is an update. 1.0.1.0 Made compatible with .NET Framework 2.0 instead of .NET Framework 3.5 1.0.0.1 Only copied the first NFO file if there were multiple NFO files present 1.0.0.0 Initial Release   Download: v1.0.1