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I started brewing my own beer recently, and I’m here to tell you, it’s pretty sweet. You can instantly tap into a rather ancient human activity, spend a little time in the kitchen playing some specialized equipment and at the end of it all you have five gallons of beer. Five. Gallons.

So, while I was pondering what a cool thing homebrewing is, I figured I might as well blog about it. A lot. On a site dedicated to such blogging. With JR, who is now also brewing.

And so WorldofWort.com was born. Hopefully, it will flourish.

Posted at 10:04 pm.
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iTunes handles .m3u playlists in a way that has been found wanting by many advocates of streaming music. You see, iTunes thinks you would like to add the contents of an m3u playlist into your library in the same way that you add actual mp3 files. This works fine if the m3u contains only a single reference to some Internet radio stations continuous stream, but it fails quite spectacularly when the playlist actually contains a number of items, all of which will be streamed individually. MyTunesRSS, Jinzora and essentially every other personal remote music streaming solution uses m3u playlists in this way.

So, after discovering this problem in iTunes I quickly found a solution. Some kind soul out there had written a nice little piece of Applescript to fix this problem by generating a new user playlist in iTunes and adding the m3u entries to it. And some even kinder soul had wrapped this Applescript up into a nice little .app which can be associated with all .m3u files and does all this magic, well, automagically.

But then MacWorld happened.

So, it seems that the iTunes 7.6 update has broken this functionality. The code now throws the error:

Can’t get item 1 of {alias “Macintosh HD:Users:username:Desktop:playlist.m3u”}.

I am a total Applescript n00b so I cannot immediately find out what is wrong, so I’m posting this so that perhaps some Internet traveler will stumble upon it and, having the same problem as I, quickly find the proper solution. Everyone else posting about this issue apparently stopped blogging some time in 2006.

Here is the offending code:

on open m3uFileList
	tell application "iTunes"
		activate
		set newPlaylist to make new user playlist
		set name of newPlaylist to (current date) as string
		repeat with m3uFile in m3uFileList
			add m3uFile to newPlaylist
		end repeat
		play newPlaylist
	end tell
end open

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Even if it’s cold outside, there are upsides to riding the bus.

Posted at 4:36 pm.
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