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Converting from iTunes to Banshee

Jan 21

Posted by Chris in Code, Geek, Life | No Comments

itunes is great, don’t get me wrong, but I use linux at home 99.99% of the time.  Lately all I boot into windows for on my main rig is to sync my ipod with itunes.  I already have the songs rated and smart playlists and straight playlists setup, it seems I’m married to itunes.  I really like Banshee and have my whole library in there as well, just no ratings or playlists.  I know I can sync my ipod with Banshee but without all the other stuff, it’s pointless.

I knew someone must have had the same dilemma I did when it came to switching, so I did a google search and came across this wonderful post By Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp Converting from iTunes to Banshee – Contentment.

I’m running the perl script right now to convert my itunes library to Banshee, then I’ll swiftly recreate my smart playlists, and be on my way.

EDIT:

Looks like I jumped the shark, New in Banshee 1.5.2 itunes Import.

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How to Get Postie to work with Wordpress 2.7

Mar 13

Posted by Chris in Code, General | 3 Comments

Postie is a great tool for posting to your wordpress blog from email,. I use it to post pictures and simple things from my Treo, but it hasn’t been updated for some time, and when installed it on wordpress 2.7 I would always get the error “Postie Only Works For Word Press 2.0 and above.” that I had the wrong version of wordpress installed when I would try to run postie.

Find the file on your server “wordpress home directory/wp-content/plugins/postie/” and the file “get_mail.php”

Edit with your favorited text editor of your choice, Kate, Gedit, Phpedit, etc.  I wouldn’t recommend notepad as it doesn’t format it correctly.

Comment out or delete the following line from the file and save, or save and upload if you haven’t ssh’d into the server.

get_mail.php

get_mail.php

This worked like a champ for me, hope it helps anyone else who is trying to figure this out, at the time of writting this I couldn’t find any answers on the web.

Apparently a few people have taken it upon themselves to continue postie, not quite a fork but a pseudo tourch passing.

 

Update: Just updated to Postie 1.1.4 and still had the version issue, commented out the above code again and it worked fine.  Also seems 1.1.4 was put out by Robert Felty.

Update: Again, updated to 1.1.5 and even after completely deleting the plugin and folder and dumping the postie table.  I get “Postie Only Works For Word Press 2.0 and above.”  Oh well, I’ll delete the line above again..


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