Tag Archives: music

Songbird: glibc 2.8 detects invalid free() pointer

Posted by on April 10, 2009 No comments

Sometimes I use Songbird to listen to my music files or internet radio. On some systems running Ubuntu 8.10 it does not run. The error is a known bug reported by some people.
The resolution is simple. Just remove libvisual-0.4-plugins.

sudo apt-get purge libvisual-0.4-plugins

Enjoy your music!

Bash script to retrieve info about current playing track on ARM.FM

Posted by on April 10, 2009 4 comments

I am a big fan of ARM.FM.
Their playlist contains the freshest tracks in the dance music.
I wanted to keep track of the tunes I like the most, so I made a little script to update a file on my desktop with the name of the track currently playing.
Here is the script, you may use and/or modify it as you please.

#!/bin/bash
 
## arm_fm.sh 1.0
## Keep track of the best tracks playing on http://armageddonfm.net/
## It creates the file 'tracks' on your desktop
##
## Also, the file _output.html can be used on your site
## to display last 3 tracks played on ARM FM
 
 
curl -s http://armageddonfm.net/ -o _arm.txt
start_line=`grep -n 'current' _arm.txt | cut -f1 -d':'`
html_tag='
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
    <tr>
    <td valign="top">
 
      <div style="width: 250px; margin: 20px 0px 0px 0px;">
        <div style="margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px;">
          <table cellspacing="0">
                                          <tr>
              <td style="padding: 10px;"></td>
'
echo $html_tag > _output.html
sed -n "$start_line,81p" _arm.txt >> _output.html
 
sed -i -e 's/<img src="\/tpl\/images\/dot.jpg">//g' _output.html
 
sed -n '2,2p' _output.html > _temp
sed -i -e 's/              <td valign="top" style="border: 1px solid #ccc; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding: 10px; font-size: 11px; color: #444"><b><font style="color: #900">//g' _temp
sed -i -e 's/<\/font><\/b><br> //g' _temp
sed -i -e 's/<br><\/td>//g' _temp
sed -i -e 's/  (current)/ - /g' _temp
 
artist=`cut -f1 -d '-' _temp`
track=`cut -f2 -d '-' _temp | sed 's/^ *//'`
 
echo $artist - $track >> $HOME/Desktop/tracks
rm _output.html _arm.txt _temp