Technology – Page 2

Concatenate artist tags using Mp3tag

My music player of choice is Neutron https://neutroncode.com/ unfortunately this doesn’t deal with multiple artists for one track, it only displays the name of the first artist. So for the track “Bangla Dhun” it would show the artist as Ravi Shankar. This is pretty frustrating as I like to know who are all the known… read more…
New categories can’t be added to post

I have now found that if I add a new category in WordPress I can’t add it to my posts. For example I have added the top level category “Trains” and a category beneath that “Wrapped Trains”: However if I try to select “Wrapped Trains” it isn’t in the list of categories: In fact before… read more…
CD Archiving

Rip the music to FLAC First rip the CD Using EAC and the post Archiving a CD using Exact Audio Copy (EAC). This will put the ripped songs *.flac, EAC log file *.log, CUE file *.cue and playlist *.m3u8 files in the root of the folder for that CD: Archive the artwork Archive the artwork… read more…
Install Netflix on Kodi

I wanted to watch Netflix on Kodi on Windows and although there are no official add-on’s for Netflix I chose the “Netflix” add-on by Stefano Gottardo, aka. CastagnaIT, as it seems to be respected by many people including comments in the Kodi forums This plugin was born in 2017 designed and created by asciidisco with… read more…
Open VMware remote console from url

If like me you run a lot of stuff in ESX, then you will know that you can open up the console in the remote This is very handy and opens up VMware Player connected to your VM in ESX. This gives a much better experience than using it through a browser: As handy as… read more…
Dr Who season list for MythTV

This is a list, for myself, of a mapping of actual seasons to season numbers I use in MythTV. This is necessary because Doctor Who went from seasons to series and MythTV only has one field. This means the latest “Series” will have different Season numbers to those expected – the world is an imperfect… read more…
This file exceeds the maximum upload size for this site

This is related to the WordPress error you may get when trying to upload a file greater than 2MB: While you can install plugins to get around this I found this did not work for me and I then got the error: My install of WordPress or more specifically PHP follows the instructions in CentOS… read more…
Display Year In MythTV Recordings

If using the “MythCenter 1.4” theme for Myth Frontend then when looking at PVR recordings it only displays the “Short Date”. The short date is just the day and month, it does not include the year. Thus it looks like: So in the above case for “Asterix and Obelix – Mansion of the Gods” the… read more…
Display MythTV filename in Kodi

I use MythTV as my media center and PVR and Kodi on Windows as my frontend. In an effort to organize my recordings and utilize subtitles, I needed to update the MythTV recordings metadata. For my situation the only practical and “supported” way to update metadata is via the MythTV frontend. My plan of attack… read more…
Enabling copy and paste in ESX VM

I really wanted copy and paste between Windows and VMs running in ESX. This is what finally worked for me. Note this was for ESX “6.0.0 Update 3 (Build 5050593)”. I was using VMware Workstation 16 Player “16.1.2 build-17966106” on Windows 10. Also, this only worked when I ran “Console | Launch remote console”. It… read more…