I’ve gotten back from my second year at K-State. Thank God finals are finally over. I’ve gotten all of my stuff setup in my room back home. I’ve got a pretty good setup going now. I’ve got my Xbox, this server and laptop plugged into my WRT54GS. I can use everything I need from the comfort of my bed. Oh, wondrous luxury. I’ve got my speakers plugged into the sound card on my server and through a combination of mp3blaster and my own custom script, I can play music on those speakers from anywhere through putty. I think it’s pretty sweet.

Here’s a copy of my shell script:

#!/bin/sh
#
# Music Script 0.1
#
# Plays specified or default playlist using mp3blaster.
#

default=/home/kyleh/playlists/syntax.m3u
custom=$1

# If no playlist is given, play the default
if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
mp3blaster -a "$default" -p allrandom
else
# If custom playlist is readable
if [ -s "$custom" ]
then
mp3blaster -a "$custom" -p allrandom
else
echo "ERROR: Unable to open custom playlist, opening default"
mp3blaster -a "$default" -p allrandom
fi
fi

exit 0

Here’s a link to my script: music.zip

This got me thinking about the relationships between various groups and genres of Rock/Alternative. I’ve found an awesome website that graphically depicts how close a certain set of artists’ styles are related.

http://www.mp3.com/musicvine/index.php