I’ve just had to delete over 11,000 temporary files from my temp directory! All created from one or other of the wave manipulation programs I’ve been experimenting with.

I do so dislike messy software that doesn’t clean up after itself. I’m not sure which is the culprit, but I can make a guess at Audacity as I’ve used that the most.

I’ve been manipulating wave files tonight. I recorded the soundtrack of a video onto my hard disk using a cool piece of software called Singulator. This is a great piece of software. It is intended to allow you to record old vinyl albums on to disk. It asks for a base file name and automatically splits the recording up into several sequentially numbered files. It uses the silence between tracks to determine where to split. So far so good.

But the soundtrack to a film like Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats is full of silences in strange places. Soooo, after letting Singulator do it’s stuff, I ended up with 25 wav files. Some of which were not split enough, others of which were split too far.

So I’ve been joining them back together in the right places, and splitting them apart in the right places. But I cannot find a decent piece of Wave manipulation software. I particularly looked at free and shareware packages. But none of them seemed to do all the bits I needed. I’ve settled on Audacity. Unfortunately it crashes regularly, particularly after the second paste in a cut and paste session. But I also discovered that if you open up a wav file, edit it, and then export to wav, overwriting the file you opened, it seems to replace all but the first few seconds with silence! 🙁

I’m giving up now, and I’ll look at it again tomorrow.

Hmmm. looks like the recently updated B2 blogs list at cafelog.com is broken. It’s returning a 403.

I’ll have to remove it from my sidebar.

I wonder if Michel knows? Although I seem to remember he is away from his computer for a few days.

Hmmm… I think I should look at trimming my list of referrers in the left hand column.
But not now, I’ll put my Perl head on tomorrow and look into it.

I’ve been amazed at the growth of visitors to my domain this month. I can hardly believe the numbers. This month there has been an average of 119 visits per day, and with the total of unique hosts for the month being over 1200, they can’t all be me pressing refresh! 😀

I have to give some credit to Steve though, his blog, which he started in the tail end of the month is hosted here too. I’m sure some of the hits are for him! 😀

Thank you to all my visitors.

I’ve just posted a temporary fix for a minor problem in the ‘recently updated b2 blogs’ list, where some entries have an extra newline in them.

Check this topic on the forum.

I’ve just discovered a new blogging tool blogBuddy.
It’s a small Windows progam written in Delphi. It supports blogging to Manila sites (provided a small tweaking), Blogger.com, Blogger-2-LiveJournal, gir.blo.gs, Movable Type 1.3 or newer and b2.

It seems pretty cool. This will be my first post with it.

Well it’s installed. It looks good. I’ll swear it’s rendering faster,… and they’ve swapped the order of the ‘open link in…’ commands in the context menu! 🙁

That’s going to be a hard habit to break.