This year, I went to the Lute Society of America Seminar at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a lot of fun, and I'm going to share some of my experience here.

Due to the recent news Regarding Stallman's heart attack, I ended up on the wikipedia page for The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and I was reading the "Guidelines for creating good opensource software". Number 3 says:

In December, 2007, I was watching the History Channel, like I often did at the time. I'm not sure what show was on, but the episode was, I think, about ancient instruments and early music.

This sparked a wikipedia session, where I looked up the origins of my own favorite instrument, the guitar. I found out about one of the guitar's cousins, the Lute. I wondered if people still played it, and looked it up on...

A few versions ago, Exaile had Last.FM streaming support using LastFMSource, a pygst plugin created by Philippe Normand of Elisa. It worked... sort of. Every other time you tried to connect to LastFM station, Gstreamer would lock up entirely, taking Exaile out with it. Not being able to fix this problem, it was eventually removed from Exaile entirely.

Enter: LastFM Proxy...

I’m pleased to announce that Exaile gained a new developer last week – Aren Olson. Aren has been contributing here and there for a while now, and as of last week with his new plugin, daap-share.py. What is DAAP you might ask?

I do this every time I have to reinstall the OS on my work machine... and as you saw in the previous article, it's about that time again. I always forget to save the configuration files for it....