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Incorporating an iPad into a DAW controlled studio (or, how to build a ghetto Alesis IO Dock for slightly less)

By On October 21, 2011 · 4 Comments

I’ve been experimenting with various methods to control the iPad via MIDI as well as getting pro-audio out of it, and now I’d like to share my results.

First – this video by tekserv is a good introduction on some of the possibilities to get MIDI working as well as how to [...]

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Amazon Cloud Player, now with Keyboard Shortcuts & Growl Notifications!

By On April 2, 2011 · 2 Comments

…Sorta. :) Code is at GitHub! Explanation below:

Andy Lemay made a very useful post on how to use fluid to run Amazon CloudPlayer as its own app. In a nutshell: You can download an excellent application called Fluid to create a desktop version of a webpage – in this case, the [...]

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Trace Flex & Flash content (minus Flex/FlashBuilder junk)

By On September 10, 2009 · 1 Comment

I use a tail command alias (from FlashApe) to constantly output the contents of my flashlog file to the terminal which makes reading output very useful. However, if you use FlexBuilder/FlashBuilder at all, you’ll notice it will dump millions of useless comments such as

-> Begin call to AS: getSelectedItems()
Begin AS external [...]

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Automatically Ripping FLAC Files to mp3s Via Shell Script – Update!

By On September 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I have made a slight update to the earlier post at Automatically Ripping FLAC Files to mp3s Via Shell Script. I have updated the script so that it will automatically make the database directory the first time you run it. Without that change, the script wouldn’t work as expected unless you manually created the [...]

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Hacking Cog to have an iTunes style library

By On August 22, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I use Cog on OS X as my primary music application which I’m pretty happy with – It’s very lightweight and plays FLAC files. Still, I prefer how Rhythmbox and iTunes manages your music in one large library. Cog, on the other hand, gives you a directory listing and requires you to drag and [...]

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Dynamically Rescaling Flex Applications

By On August 5, 2009 · Leave a Comment

For a project, we’ve been meaning to implement some accessibility features such as providing the ability to resize all of the text in the application. The problem with this is that it requires a lot of overhead to build your application so that it can handle dynamic text sizes. I wanted instead to try some [...]

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Automatically Ripping FLAC Files to mp3s Via Shell Script

By On August 3, 2009 · 3 Comments

Disclaimer: These instructions are for Ubuntu (or other Linux distro) – I will be doing an updated post later on to cover OS X.

Being somewhat of an audiophile, I’ve been encoding my music in lossless FLAC format for a while now – which is great, except when you want to put them on an [...]

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Required First Post

By On August 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Jello!

Since I’m starting a blog, I have to get the introductions out of the way. I’m Zachary Berry, a web developer with a leaning towards Flex and Flash work. Since the end of 2004 I’ve been working as a Web Application Designer & Developer at the University of Central Florida under the New Media [...]

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