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Oracle

• Last updated ?

Calendar

• Last updated ?

Reading List

• Last updated: April 2023

Back ups

• Last done: Summer 2023

Commonplace Book

• Last updated: December 2023

Radio Astercote Playlist

• Folder list - last updated: March 2024
• Tag list: March 2024
• Backup: unknown

• Last updated: March 2024

• Last updated: May 2024

Others

• mix tapes
• Wilderblog

Mixtape

Things to check:

• bitrate is 320 if possible
• file is mp3 not flac if possible
• There is a artist and song name
• Disc & volume: none
• Various artists
• Check for duplicates

Radio Astercote Playlist

1. Move all new music to primary hard drive
2. Update Mediamonkey Library
3. Run powershell code to get Album List
   • Regex to select newlines: /\n/g
   • Replace with: lis, and a \n
4. Run Mediamonkey report to get Fenvibes list
5. Back up to 2nd hard drive
6. Optionally, add music to music player
7. Optionally, upload new data to website

Powershell Code

Remember to change file urls:

Tag List

• Open MediaMonkey
• Open a view with all tracks in it - All Tracks
• Click filter
• Fenvibes: is known
• Press enter to display all songs with a fenvibe
• Ctrl+A to select all songs in view
• File > Reports > File List
• Sorting - change to Fenvibes
• Columns - leave as is for now, it's sufficient

To update portable radio:

• plug in phone
• select 'transfer files' on phone
• Open Media Monkey
• sync

Quick Radio Show

• Clear some space on C:
• Mediamonkey. Sortilege Playlist -> Asterandom
• Deselect any tracks which don't look good
• Drag into Audacity
• Select all. tracks -> align tracks -> align end to end
• Listen.
• Top-and-tail with intro and ending.

To make a list of tracks:

• Select all tracks in Audacity
• Tools -> Nyquist Prompt
;type analyze ;version 4 ;debugflags trace (format t "~a~%" (get '*track* 'name)) ""
• Click OK
• Then copy & paste this text to a file

Download sound from youtube

Pictures

! remember to update the vision and the veil source code

Commonplace

• Always use the highlight tool, even in part, and put in a note about what you've spotted. In a physical book, a page number and a few words
• Open Update/kobo-notes-wip
• Open the next book on the list on the e-reader
• Check if it is in the CB already
• Open up a digital copy of the book
• Survey each annotation, copying it into 'unsorted commonplace'
• Arrange in the commonplace.js
• Delete from kobo-notes-wip
• Check it is on the RL
• Mark as done on the Book Log

Wilderblog

• use command prompt, not power shell

Sitemapper

• Go to Sitemap folder
• Right click sitemapper.ps1 and run with Powershell 7

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