This is an old page from Rod Begbie's blog.
It only exists in an attempt to prevent linkrot. No new content will be added to this site, and links and images are liable to be broken. Check out begbie.com to find where I'm posting stuff these days.
HOWTO rip the audio from 5.1-mix music DVDs and play it back on a Squeezebox. I’ve got an increasing number of surround music releases, so this’ll come in handy.
Win32 remote controller for Slimserver. I now have toast popping up on track changes, which makes me happy.
I’ve been playing with SlimServer as a replacement for iTunes’s role as my listen-on-my-laptop-to-the-music-on-my-server tool, and it’s pretty damned impressive. Open-source, plenty of plugins, deals well with my collection, and hey! It’ll work if I choose to buy one of their delightfully-tempting $300 Squeezebox networked music players.
This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.