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Does anyone know anything about ALSA device name and plugs? The new Xine Config dialog is kind of full thanks to the fact that xine has a different configuration for sound devices depending on how many channels are being played.

For instance, by default the mono device for xine-lib is simply default and 6-channel sound is plug:surround51:0

Would there by some way to let the user specify which device they want to use (that's the goal, let users who have two sound cards specify which they want) and have that apply to all the channel settings? I don't think users have a need to change the plug settings, so it seems like it should be possible. I've looked at the xine-lib source code, it appears the device is being sent directly to the ALSA lib more or less.

And now I refer you to Konversation's /weather script:
Current Weather for Columbia, Columbia Regional Airport : Clear skies, Temperature: 71.1°F, Pressure: 30.15" Hg, Wind: 10 MPH N

To translate, its great weather. Missouri's weather could be described as polarized: it can get really cold in winter and really hot in the summer. The Intermediate Value Theorem means its occasionally nice. Today is one of those days. Yesterday a cold front brought in some needed rain and today we're somehow having the cold front without the rain. Nice especially since we've just had a week or so of body temperature weather (to express it in a metric/imperial-neutral fashion).

So when I went to desposit my check at the bank I proceded to go down a path to a creek and watch fishs for about 15 minutes. Then I skipped a few rocks, remembered I'm not any good at that, and just starting throwing large rocks.

Incredible. Really. Watch it. Just do it. Now.

Quarter Master

A couple of weeks ago I figured out I could quit my job about a month and a half early (I had been planning to quit the last week of August) and have enough money. Meaning that if I kept on working, that would be greedy, and I can't have that. ^^ Probably more relevant I need to work on a couple of websites before school starts. So, I gave my two-week-notice with today as my last day since its also the end of this pay period.

Only later did I put two and two together and realize that its also the night of the Harry Potter release. I had already been looking forward to today, since I get off work at 23:00 about two blocks from the Barnes and Noble. Some friends I haven't in a while should be there as well.

So while today should be awesome, I predict work will progress very slowly. Consider this perfect storm:

1. Last day of work
2. Almost to the end of a two year wait for Harry Potter 6
3. Its a slow season, so there isn't much work. I've been working the book sorting line, but there aren't actually that many books. I started reading some Beowolf yesterday and read almost all of Lysistrata the day before, it was surprisingly funny.

Actually if I find something good to read it might not go so slow. Its just that I technically am forbidden to be reading on the job so its hard to be engrossed in a book when you have to keep look-out.

Outside of the website work, I should also start having time to get back into amaroK development. Here is my personal todo list, published to provide some pressure on myself:

• An album tagger of some sort. Right now I'm leaning towards using Amazon.com data.
• Better integrated .cue file support. I've been listening to books and it would be nice to have an easy way to "bookmark" where I left off.
• amaroK needs non-crappy remote playlist support. Right now it just relies on the filename extension. Looking at the Kaffeine code, this isn't an easy problem. Perhaps there should be a taglib for playlist decoding.