This Isn’t the Webpage You’re Looking For

This blog has been moved.

Actually, this blog started somewhere else, was moved here, and now it has moved to yet another site.  I haven’t heard of any problems with blogs running through the wild Internet untamed, but it seems this blog is quite illusive and difficult to catch.

Ok, seriously.  I started using Blogger way back before it was bought by Google. It sucked.  It still kinda sucks, but I have no doubt Google will make it better.  Then, I moved to WordPress.com.  Well, WordPress.com has its own limitations, which are rational and logical limitations — the way the software is designed, individual bloggers can’t do certain things individually because it would end up affecting everyone. That makes sense, but only in the “we sorta painted ourselves in a corner” kind of sense.  However, I do enjoy the WordPress interface; it is super-friendly and ultra intuitive.  So, I decided to download the Open Source version of WordPress(.org), and host it on my machine at home.  This is where you’ll find the rest of this blog.

Music Video Update

Its been months since I updated the blog, so here’s the latest…

After hitting a huge snag with my transcoding videos (after only getting about 90+ out of 300+), I stopped for a bit while I troubleshot and regrouped. The issue was that for every new video I transcoded, there would be no audio in the music video. After quite a while of poking around, I found out that the ffmpeg utility I was using wasn’t built with an MP3 encoder — usually Flash video is encoded with MP3 audio. So, then I had to download the source for ffmpeg, and rebuild with the helper libraries (libmp3lame, etc.).

Now, I’m back on track, and almost to the ‘T’s. ~230 music videos in the library as of now.
Here are some of the artists I have:

3 Doors Down
Black Eyed Peas
Bon Jovi
Britney Spears
Celine Dion
Cher
Collective Soul
Duran Duran
Eminem
Enigma
Fergie
Gwen Stefani
Heart
Hillary Duff
INXS
Jamiroquai
Jennifer Lopez
Kelly Clarkson
Kylie Minogue
matchbox twenty
Paula Abdul
Pussycat Dolls
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rihanna
Roxette
Santana
Shakira
Shania Twain
Spice Girls
Stacie Orrico
Sugababes

ACDC
Damn Yankees
Eric Johnson
Evanescence
Golden Earring
Green Day
Journey
Linkin Park
Motley Crue
Rob Zombie

JPop
Aya Kamiki
B’z
Eri Nobuchika
Foxxi misQ
Heartsdales
Kumi Koda
LISA
m-flo
Namie Amuro
Orange Range
Shanadoo
SOULHEAD
Southern All Stars
trf

I even have a song named “Anti Hero”, which was a collaboration between Rin (JPop) and Lisa Loeb.  Excellent song. Good video, too.

At the rate I’m going now, as long as I don’t add a large number of videos to be transcoded, I should be done in a few days.