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• Top 2 reasons why WMP10 isn't my audio player

  1) No OGG support. Come on Microsoft, you can do it. I know you can. You were even willing to ( apparently ) pony up the money to include high bitrate mp3 encoding. You can't hire a contract/temp developer for like a month to add support for completely... Posted Sep 02 2004, 05:37 PM by Andy Smith with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• mp3s, album art, and c#

  So I was messing around with Winamp and this plugin which pops up some toast when the track changes. The latest version will use the windows xp “folder.jpg” feature to show the album art for the track if it can. I thought this was pretty cool... Posted Jun 12 2004, 08:12 AM by Andy Smith with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• WMP 10

  WARNING: RANT AHEAD So, ya, Windows Media Player 10 is coming out soon. Yawn. Come on Microsoft, add Ogg Vorbis support. The format is completely open. Heck, somebody even already made the directshow filter for ogg . Andy wants tag/media library support... Posted Jun 03 2004, 03:32 AM by Andy Smith with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• Thinking about trees

  I just got back from one of my semi-regular midnight-ish walks after a long day of coding. It was a fairly windy nite, and the trees were fairly alive with the creaks and the rustling… so they were attracting my attention. Back in the day, I was... Posted May 18 2004, 06:06 AM by Andy Smith with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• The anonymous wikki under fire

  I would be seriously angry if this happened to me. Of course, any site or application which accepts anonymous 3rd party content is going to fall for this eventually… but it’s just so sad that we can’t have a single thing that spammers... Posted Apr 13 2004, 10:27 PM by Andy Smith with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• Apple Laptop Design

  Even tho Greg only has on complaint about apple laptops , I have one more, and it's a deal-breaker for me.In their quest for “thin“, they didn't recess the touchpad quite enough, and meat of my thumb would constantly move the cursor around... Posted Apr 02 2004, 03:27 PM by Andy Smith with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• a little facelift

  As cool as the msdn css was, I decided to brand my blog with my own site's look. So I sat down for about 15 minutes and now, those of you not using aggregators should see a metabuilders style. Hope you like it. Posted Oct 11 2003, 03:53 PM by Andy Smith with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• why do i get sucked into these things

  I generally don't indulge in the define-me-tests that tend to sweep across blogs. What OS am I? What Matrix character am I? blah blah blah... But I do happen to think that Meyers Briggs is fairly useful and accurate. I've taken the M-B test quite a few... Posted Sep 16 2003, 01:33 AM by Andy Smith with | with no comments Filed under: rambling

• media player is my latest target

  Media Player has always had two major flaws that stopped me from using it. No support for ogg No support for listening to music in one player while watching random videos in another Now that you can hack media player to play ogg , i figured, hey, I can... Posted Jun 12 2003, 07:07 PM by Andy Smith with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: rambling

• interest in waves

  Over the time that I've had metabuilders up, I've noticed one thing in particular that has always made me wonder about global community and human behavior. I have many controls available on metabuilders. Some are more popular than others, understandably... Posted Jun 05 2003, 01:53 PM by Andy Smith with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: rambling