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To get your station really singing, I'd suggest using Hooks. What is a hook you say? A hook is a 10 second snippet of the meat of the song, such as the bit that gets stuck in your head, or a snippet of the chorus or similar. So, how does this make the station sound... Continue Reading →
Probably the easiest way to read and write settings.ini files in VB.NET is with a little bit of code from NuGET from MarioZ called https://github.com/MarioZ/MadMilkman.Ini This is a section that I wrote using the examples to check and see if values exist, before writing a default settings file. Imports MadMilkman.Ini Public Class Form1 Private Sub... Continue Reading →
Here's some crazy programming that will do your head in, for it's storage efficiency. public void Main { DateTime now = DateTime.Now; int yearnowfix = (now.Year + 20); string[] theArray = { yearnowfix.ToString().Substring(2), now.Month.ToString(), now.Day.ToString(), now.Hour.ToString(), now.Minute.ToString(), now.Second.ToString() }; Console.WriteLine(PlayDateConversion_ToHex(theArray)); } public string PlayDateConversion_ToHex(String[] HumanDate) { String DateHEX = ""; // Convert the array to... Continue Reading →
I'm doing this on a journey and writing things as I go, because while all audio editors do things the same - play audio - the way you navigate and actually achieve those results is different. This is not comprehensive, but written as a bit of a starter guide, not only for other people but... Continue Reading →
I don't have any of the new Apple M1 silicon devices. This is on the cards, but first, I have to investigate this. So, I write this in the unknown, as not many are talking about how this will be for developers. It's Just YouTubers doing video benchmarking. which will suite their workflows. Firstly, Ionic/Angular... Continue Reading →
Today I was working on a website application and I saw a strange thing happen with a date checking related library called moment.js where it was calling a website to get some usage statistics. Well, that's what I thought was the case initially... I have a few ad blockers installed in my browser, and so... Continue Reading →
I've recently found ScottPlot, and it's amazing. Most things are straight forward, and there's plenty of recipes to try out to get the graphs to do what you want. However, sometimes things aren't as easy as you'd think. No, I may or may not have gone about this the right or original way as the... Continue Reading →
Fortunately this is not something I do very often, but when I do, it's usually good... One of the things I like to do is have a document with lots of settings and commands I call my cheat sheet - for times that things don't go to plan. This time, I was trying to upload... Continue Reading →
To make this work properly, you need to make sure you have the right speech pack installed: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/download-voices-for-immersive-reader-read-mode-and-read-aloud-4c83a8d8-7486-42f7-8e46-2b0fdf753130?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us The other thing, is to make sure the voices you want to use are enabled correctly. On Windows 10 - and I have not tested this on anything else, so use it at your own risk! You... Continue Reading →
After upgrading to the latest version of VirtualBox for Mac, with a Windows 7 as the client, I have struggled to get audio working with a USB audio device. I have a Presonus Studio192 device, and it's a fantastic piece of kit, but in the current setup, VB doesn't want to play nice. I am... Continue Reading →
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