From the Canyon Edge: Musica Now Supports mp3, ogg, flac, wav!

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Musica Now Supports mp3, ogg, flac, wav!

I have previously blogged about Musica--a web application that provides browsing, streaming, and downloading your music over http/https. At the time, Musica only supported indexing of MP3 files.

Several readers of my blog requested support for FLAC and OGG files. I agreed to hack this up, they opened bugs: Bug #313408 and Bug #288839.

I rolled out musica-1.4 last week, which now contains support for MP3, FLAC, OGG, and WAV files. The code changes were actually really minimal. If you're interested in seeing the PHP modifications, refer to:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kirkland/musica/main/revision/40

You should be able to install the binaries on Hardy, Intrepid, and Jaunty.

Obligatory screen shot:

Note the sample artist, Jeff Luna...one of the funniest guys I know! Head over to http://cdbaby.com/cd/jeffluna where you can listen to this album for free, and buy it if you like it. My Mom's Van is my favorite ;-)

:-Dustin

3 comments:

MichaelJanuary 21, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Thanks Dustin for inadvertently giving me a huge hand! I am packaging a project of my own, wxBanker (my first!) using the Silk icon set, and couldn't figure out how to do my debian/copyright properly. If you have an extra minute and want to help me even more, you could REVU (http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/details.py?package=wxbanker) it :) It is my great aspiration to get it into Jaunty but the feedback lag is causing it to not look up.
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PlodderJanuary 22, 2009 at 10:15 AM
I followed the instructions and everything seems to work fine and end up as and where it should be. However, my browser took exception to "http://localhost/musica" and tried to open / download / save a file called dqvQV04n.phtml.part "which is a PHTML FILE".

Do you have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong?
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Dustin KirklandJanuary 25, 2009 at 11:35 PM
Plodder:

Please file a bug in Launchpad:
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/musica

:-Dustin
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Please do not use blog comments for support requests! Blog comments do not scale well to this effect.

Instead, please use Launchpad for Bugs and StackExchange for Questions.
* bugs.launchpad.net
* stackexchange.com

Thanks,
:-Dustin

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Dustin Kirkland (Twitter, LinkedIn) is an engineer at heart, with a penchant for reducing complexity and solving problems at the cross-sections of technology, business, and people.

With a degree in computer engineering from Texas A&M University (2001), his full-time career began as a software engineer at IBM in the Linux Technology Center working on the Linux kernel and security certifications, including a one-year stint as an dedicated engineer-in-residence at Red Hat in Boston (2005). Dustin was awarded the title Master Inventor at IBM, in recognition of his prolific patent work as an inventor and reviewer with IBM's intellectual property attorneys.

Dustin then first joined Canonical (2008) as an engineer (eventually, engineering manager), helping create the Ubuntu Server distribution and establishing Ubuntu as the overwhelming favorite Linux distribution in Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's cloud platforms, as well as authoring and maintaining dozens of new open source packages.

Dustin joined Gazzang (2011), a venture-backed start-up built around an open source project that he co-authored (eCryptFS), as Chief Technology Officer, and helped dozens of enterprise customers encrypt their data at rest and securely manage their keys. Gazzang was acquired by Cloudera (2014).

Having effectively monetized eCryptFS as an open source project at Gazzang, Dustin returned to Canonical (2013) as the VP of Product for Ubuntu and spent the next several years launching a portfolio of products and services (Ubuntu Advantage, Extended Security Maintenance, Canonical Livepatch, MAAS, OpenStack, Kubernetes) that continues to deliver considerable annual recurring revenue. With Canonical based in London, an 800+ work-from-home employee roster and customers spread across 40+ countries, Dustin traveled the world over, connecting with clients and colleagues steeped in rich cultural experiences.

Google Cloud (2018) recruited Dustin from Canonical to product manage Google's entrance into on-premises data centers with its GKE On-Prem (now, Anthos) offering, with a specific focus on the underlying operating system, hypervisor, and container security. This work afforded Dustin a view deep into the back end data center of many financial services companies, where he still sees tremendous opportunities for improvements in security, efficiencies, cost-reduction, and disruptive new technology adoption.

Seeking a growth-mode opportunity in the fintech sector, Dustin joined Apex Clearing (now, Apex Fintech Solutions) as the Chief Product Officer (2019), where he led several organizations including product management, field engineering, data science, and business partnerships. He drastically revamped Apex's product portfolio and product management processes, retooling away from a legacy "clearing house and custodian", and into a "software-as-a-service fintech" offering instant brokerage account opening, real-time fractional stock trading, a secure closed-network crypto solution, and led the acquisition and integration of Silver's tax and cost basis solution.

Drawn back into a large cap, Dustin joined Goldman Sachs (2021) as a Managing Director and Head of Platform Product Management, within the Consumer banking division, which included Marcus, and the Apple and GM credit cards. He built a cross-functional product management community and established numerous documented product management best practices, processes, and anti-patterns.

Dustin lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Kim and their wonderful two daughters.

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Musica Now Supports mp3, ogg, flac, wav!

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