A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

This is creepy shit right here:

WELCOME TO OBAMERICA: HOMELAND SECURITY BANS ATLAS

My PHP fu is predictably pitiful. I need to extract text from a free standing block of html and make sure I exclude stuff that’s text inside an anchor tag.

Now, to do so with significant alacrity do I invoke a “real” parser? Or do I just play regex games?

Meh.

Great title eh?

I’m just starting out in paying serious attention to equipping myself with the tools required to make a real solid continuous mix CD. I’ve been noodling around with mixes for a long time and just hate the crippleware that is iTunes for doing the job.

With nearly 9000 tracks at my disposal I really need professional tools.

The first candidate is MixMeister Express. I’ve just downloaded and am installing the demo.

This may be what most of my weekend ends up being about.

More as it happens.

UPDATE: Ok. 14:17 my time, I’ve pointed MME at my network 2T drive to slurp all the music. It’s got to recursively read the directories, load and process the tracks for beat patterns and such, so it’ll take a while. The more I think about it the more I realize it’ll probably take hours.
UPDATE: Ugh. 15:17 20% complete. *bangs head on desk*
UPDATE: Good grief. 18:13. “import” complete… Now it’s sampling for BPM readings. uhm… what was it doing before?

UPDATE: This application is pointlessly slow when operating with music files on fast local lan. I’m going to copy everything to the local machine and see if I’m right about the bottleneck being nothing but lan traffic before I write a brimstone laden review.

UPDATE: Ok. Next day. 10:40. I’ve pulled all the music over to the local drive overnight, wiped the library from MME and have restarted the import. As I type this the initial import is 2.5% complete. Encouraging.