Version 6.0ish. Digital Humanities. Running. Linux.

For years, I’m talking about ten, I have been looking for a good tag editor for music files. I like to be very precise with how music files are tagged so I can organize them in really specific ways. Over the years, I have tried out a bunch of editors but none ever did what I really wanted. Many were buggy, or only worked with certain kinds of files, and most just stunk.

Not surprisingly, the answer came from the open source community. EasyTag is an extremely easy to use program (available for both Linux and Windows) that has an ftp style interface which allows mass tagging and an ease of use that I have never encountered before in tagging programs. This should be an essential part of anyone’s tool kit.

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I haven’t found a lot of use for Wine, Ubuntu’s Windows Emulator, in the past because I have been able to find open source alternatives for most of the programs I use. MP3 Gain is a program I haven’t found an alternative to use yet so I decided to try it out via Wine.

Getting the program up and running with Wine is easy. Once Wine is installed on your system you install programs via an .exe file as you would in Windows. My only problem is that MP3 Gain runs really slowly on my system. I’ve had a lot of issues with freezing and lag. I don’t know if this is just my system or a general problem, Wine gives the emulation high marks, so I am curious if others have had the same problem.

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• OpenOffice 2.4 is out! http://download.openoffice.org/

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Now that there is a grammar check plugin for Open Office, I can see no reason to use Word anymore. Open Office is a much better, and open source, program overall. I have been using it for about three years now almost exclusively. The lack of a proper grammar check did hurt it, but the addition of that reduces the compelling reasons to keep Word around to zero.

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Last week Apple announced that the newest version of their browser, Safari, was going to also be available for Windows. I’m not much of an Apple user. , but these days the computers in my room either run on XP or Ubuntu Linux. After hearing about Safari being available for Windows, I became curious enough to download it. So did over one million other people.

I played with Safari for a few hours and I have to say it is very fast. That is, however, about the only thing it offers that stands out. Tabbed browsing is nothing new anymore. RSS integration is nice, but I read my feeds via Thunderbird. I’ve never found a web or browser integration I really enjoyed. The lack of plugins, like Firefox, or widgets, like Opera, really turned me off as well. My Firefox browser is deeply customized, and my Opera browser, via their speed dial feature, opens everything I use in it with a mouse click.

Safari also has some serious security issues. TechCrunch reports that there is a variety of known problems already. Wired goes as far as to ask who in their right mind would run Safari on Windows?

I uninstalled Safari the morning after I downloaded it. There isn’t any reason for me to use it; with good options like Firefox, Opera, and the new, admittedly nostalgia ridden download of, Netscape out there, Safari offer nothing that would compel me to use it.

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Forever Geek is reporting today that my favorite instant messaging program Gaim is now known as Pidgin. I downloaded 2.0 this morning and so far I am really impressed. The interface is nice and, as always, I can incorporate all of my messaging screen names into one program (which at this point is only AIM and IRC). This is pretty superficial, but my favorite part so far is that they changed the noise you get when you receive a message to something quiet and not as obnoxious as the previous one. It might seem trivial, but I am thrilled to be able to keep the sound turned on for the new version.

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I am really excited about Second Life becoming open source. Boing Boing puts it best:

Second Life is distinct because it allows in-game creators of objects to “own” them, sell copies of them, give them away, and license them under Creative Commons. Most other worlds require that you assign all your copyright to the game’s corporate owners — and prevent you from doing some kinds of creative stuff to avoid copyright hassles (musicians in Star Wars Galaxies could only perform compositions provided by Sony, for example).

But there’s a fly in the ointment — it’s not very meaningful to amass in-game wealth if your ability to use it is contingent on your ongoing good relations with a single company. What good is your wonderful Second Life real-estate, architecture, gadgets and wardrobe if Linden Labs can throw you out at any time? It’s like amassing Soviet-era rubles — you could only spend them in Russia.

But by opening up the source code for Second Life, Linden is inviting a competitive marketplace for Second Life hosters. Indeed, they describe a “Second Life grid” of multiple Second Life hosters who interconnect — the way that today’s Web consists of a single Web with millions of servers that are all linked together by their users.

O’Reilly Radar has more information about the actual source code.

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