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Sat Jan 21 10:26:16 EST 2017
Slept from eleven to ten, although I woke up for an hour around five.
Foggy. High of fifty two!
- Try gnome-music
Well, this is stupid:
"/home/paulgorman/Music is a symlink, this folder will be omitted"
Why?!
There also doesn't seem to be any way to chance the music folder location in the program or by command-line arguments.
By doing:
% strace gnome-music 2>&1 | grep -10 'symlink'
I discovered that it's getting XDG_MUSIC_DIR from `/home/paulgorman/.config/user-dirs.dirs`.
Sure, that way more intuitive that just letting me set it with a command line argument or GUI dialog.
But what the hell is wrong with a symlink anyhow? God damn Gnome.
OK... setting XDG_MUSIC_DIR made the warning go away, but I still don't have any music.
Looks like Gnome Music relies on some sort of indexer called "tracker".
Several sources mention needing `tracker-control` to make Music find files, but `tracker-control` isn't available on Debian.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnome/comments/3rb37r/gnomemusic_doesnt_find_any_files/
$ tracker reset -r
$ tracker daemon -s
$ tracker daemon -f
And that seems to have fixed it.
...No. Gnome Music is not good. Deinstalled.
- Take out trash, clean up a little
Done.
Took out the trash, blew the dust out of my computers, vacuumed, watered plants.
I emailed mom about her birthday.
IF I were to rebuild my computer to dual-boot into Windows for gaming:
- be quiet! STRAIGHT POWER 10 600W ATX 12V 80 Plus Gold power supply $110
- MSI Radeon RX 480 8G $245
- Crucial MX300 2.5" 525GB SATA III SSD $140
- Window 10 Home Full $130
Total: $625
...but I'm not much of a video gamer these days.
I'd probably be better off dumping that cash into a 4k display, like the Dell P2715Q.
Could my current card even support a 4k display? No. Sigh.
And the 2560x1600 displays my current card supports are hilariously more expensive than many 4k displays.
Haircut.
Thirty minute walk in the early evening. Warm out. Startled a Cooper's (?) hawk behind the city offices.
Today went by quickly.
https://github.com/gnumdk/lollypop
This looks like a better music player!
It's really nice.
It even has a "party mode" that can filter out genres.
Lollypop is much, much, much better than Gnome Music.
The mechanism for adding albums to playlists is a little awkward.
Unchecking "network access" in the hamburger menu is a must.
Is there any way to look at the info for a track or album?
Wish it would show the file path to an album.
It generally really needs detail screens for artists, albums, and tracks.
Very promising, anyhow.
Watched Yoga Hosers on Netflix. OK.
I spent a couple of hour tidying directories, names, cover art, and metadata of my music collection.
It made me really miss dad.
Breakfast: carrots, coffee
Lunch: corn chips and hummus
Dinner: fish
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