Geek-end report

[mdlbear]

So, I never did get as far as laying down tracks over the weekend, but I did manage to figure out the directory structure I'm going to need, and get it all put together and documented. This involves three different subdirectories under the pseudo-user record's home directory: tracks, albums, and songs. The actual recording happens under tracks.

It also involves not one but four ``home directories'' for record: one for the RedHat-based distribution I've been using so far, one for the Debian-based distro we'll be using from now on, one that they symlink to on the huge partition that they'll share with ripped CDs, downloaded .iso images and the like, and a dummy for use elsewhere on the network.

I've also figured out how to get the recording box to boot differently when it's being used as a recorder; that bit isn't complete yet but won't be terribly hard.

chaoswolf and I spent some time last night discussing the economics of the music business, and figuring out what to record first. That will be The Programmer's Alphabet, mainly because we want to replace the truly horrible recording that Eric Gerds has been playing on Filk Radio.

The main task facing me at work this morning is to finish merging the changes mr_kurt made to my Java mini-server's plug-in architecture, and rip out the overcomplicated setup code I started out with. Mildly tricky, since I don't want to break anything in the process, but basically trivial.

Comments

[trogula.livejournal.com]

Eagerly looking forward to the technical details of your recording setup and experience, as well at the final outcome.

[mdlbear]

Expect a write-up in the How I Work series in a couple of weeks when I've had a chance to see how it actually does work.