The Building Coder

WAV Database, Python and GUI Tutorials

My son Christopher is thinking of creating a music database for his personal use supporting some strict requirements that other databases do not fulfil. That prompted me to jot down some advice and a couple of starting points. The initial requirements are simple. Question: I am wondering if I should build my own sample management software since it seems to be quite difficult to find anything useful... My wishes: Build a database of sounds and tags, categories, comments etc. for... Read more →

Nightingale M3U and Denormalized Filename Characters

Here is a post addressing a Mac denormalized filename character issue, music players on Mac and Python file manipulation, so nothing to do with the Revit API. It appears that Songbird is dead, Nightingale is its successor, and nothing much else is happening on that front, neither now nor ever. I guess Nightingale will die a natural death too one of these days, but I am still using it so far anyway. Just like Songbird, Nightingale does not provide any... Read more →

Super Insane MP3 and Songbird Playlist Exporter

I am still in the USA, visiting my colleague Kevin Vandecar in Goffstown, New Hampshire, returning to Europe on Tuesday. Today we worked in his huge garden, loading a bunch of tree stumps on a truck with a tractor, then went for a swim in the beautiful Uncanoonuc Lake: Back in February I mentioned using Songbird to play music on the Mac, extracting M3U playlists from it, and determining the playlist duration using ffmpeg and mutagen. I encountered lots of... Read more →

MP3 Manipulation Using Python, Mutagen and Ffmpeg

Today is an education day, and I am taking another look at displaying a 2D view of a Revit model on mobile devices using SVG. I started off doing so quite a while back, implementing a room polygon and furniture picker in SVG. That implementation displays a read-only view of the model, useful for picking and identifying elements, e.g. for querying or adding metadata to them. Today I plan to go one step further, though, and enable translation and rotation... Read more →