Mac – Right Click – convert to mp3

With the help of from this website, I have been able to create an automator script in MacOS Big Sur (and others) where you can right click on a WAV file, and choose "Convert to MP3" or "Convert to 320k MP3" as per the name of your automation extension. This workflow sets it to a...

StationPlaylist Schedule auditing

I know this is really premature of me to post something like this, but I've been working on this project for several months now, and it is something that we have stated to use in-house, and so hopefully others will want to use it too. I come from many years of using various radio softwares,...

Sound4 – Getting metadata in a stream

There are many different ways of getting data in to a web stream using the Sound4 streamers. In my case, I'm using an x4. It has taken a little while to understand how this method presented works, as the documentation requires a bit more clarity - hence why I'm writing this entry. Sound4 have numerous...

Downloads from archive.org not always working

It's not everyday your web browser hangs up on a download, but I discovered something weird today. I was being a little nostalgic and so was looking up a great old program called Netbus. It's a remote access tool that you can use for nefarious reasons, or you can just have a little bit of...

Exploits are great sometimes – Printer password

For some reason along the way, I must have changed the password on my printer, but as always, when you need to get in to that admin area, you always seem to misplace the password. Well, it turns out that sometimes, it's a good thing to have exploits that work, especially when you don't upgrade...

Power Saving: Macmini8,1 > MacPro4,1->5,1

This why I got a 2018 Mac Mini. Yes, my 2009 Mac Pro was getting to the end of life regarding official support for software upgrades (as it's deemed vintage), but It was also for the power savings. When I got my new little MacMini, I upgrade it to 64GB of RAM, and I set...

No provider for [object Object]! appmodule find unknown module

This error had me stumped for the longest time, where my angular ionic5 app would compile, however, it just failed to run. After trying organising my provider list to make it easier to compare what was or wasn't loaded from other pages, I must have changed the order, which is what had made all the...

Using SourceTree with AWS CodeCommit

Managed to import my project from AWS to SourceTree. Here's the screenshots workflow. Hopefully this helps you too. How to import AWS codecommit GIT projects with SourceTree. Create a key https://docs.aws.amazon.com/codecommit/latest/userguide/setting-up-ssh-unixes.html C:\> ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 After trying to add an AWS repository to a Mac using SourceTree for a few hours - I...

VMWare Fusion vs VirtualBox CPU consumption

I've used both Fusion and VirtualBox extensively in the past, and after swapping over to VMWare Fusion Free Personal edition, I've discovered something quite interesting. My Current settings: VirtualBox: VirtualBox Graphical User InterfaceVersion 6.1.18 r142142 (Qt5.6.3) VMWare Fusion: Player Version 12.1.2 (17964953) Using VirtualBox on my MacMini 2018 (3.2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7) with...

How to export audio between Cue Markers in an Audition 3 multitrack session

This has taken me a little while to figure out, but it's something that I'm surprised Adobe didn't do with Audition 3. The problem arises when you make a multi-track session in Audition 3, and you have put all of your markers on the session, where your exports should be. The question remains for some...