Tag Archives: music

Making iTunes Suck Less With Firefly

Friends of mine know that I have much to complain about where iTunes is concerned. To summarise what is a long rant (which I may someday write), the problems are poor support for file formats—Ogg Vorbis and FLAC in particular—and various UI issues. Getting a better music-playing program running on OS X is a secondary [...]

Text. Why Not?

A day or two ago I reinstalled Debian on my PC, removing in the process a mostly broken installation of Ubuntu 9 (no, it came like that). In the interest of avoiding the problems usually associated with Linux on the desktop I declined to install an X server. This afternoon I fired it up and [...]