Regular Tasks
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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
Picturebook
- Last updated: March 2024
Sitemapper
- Last updated: May 2024
Others
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
- Move all new music to primary hard drive
- Update Mediamonkey Library
- Run powershell code to get Album List
- Regex to select newlines: /\n/g
- Replace with: lis, and a \n
- Run Mediamonkey report to get Fenvibes list
- Back up to 2nd hard drive
- Optionally, add music to music player
- Optionally, upload new data to website
Powershell Code
Remember to change file urls:
Get-ChildItem -Path 'E:\FILE\PATH' -Name -Recurse -Attributes Directory| Out-File -FilePath 'E:\FILE\PATH\RA Month Year.txt' -Encoding utf8
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
- 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
Book Log
Key
- 🕰 - Read; awaiting quoteage
- ⚙ - when combined with another symbol, WIP
- 🏚 - in the RL database
- 🕮 - in the physical CB
- 🕸 - in the online CB
- 💤 - Complete in all ways
Log
Next up:
- Becoming Animal - last two chapters
- 🕸⚙ | The Wave - Susan Casey
- Lavondyss - Robin Holdstock
April 2024
- 🏚 The Outcasts (1982)
December 2024
- 🏚 Mythago Wood, the Bone Forest, the Hollowing, Lavondyss
- 🏚 After the Ice
October 2024
- 🏚🕸 | Redwall
March 2024
- 🕸 | Four Weird Tales
- 🕰⚙ | Becoming Animal (last chapter & conclusion still to read)
- 🕸 | Mythago Wood
- 🏚🕸 | Peter Pan; Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
- 🕸 | Winters in the World
- 🏚🕸 | Hill of Dreams
- 🏚🕸 | The Man Whom the Trees Loved
- 🏚🕸 | Far Off Things
- 💤 | The King in Yellow
Wilderblog
- use command prompt, not power shell
Sitemapper
- Go to Sitemap folder
- Right click sitemapper.ps1 and run with Powershell 7