Ever since we moved offices at work I've been busy all days of the week, but finally this weekend I was able to really relax. The only thing I wanted to accomplish was getting my playlists in order. They were a bit scattered between machines and a few weren't stored in the DB. After I got started, I got the itch to upgrade the display page that scrolls across my TV of what's currently playing.

It went pretty quick. It only took about 45 minutes to design on Saturday and half the day on Sunday to integrate it with my current code. It looks great in Firefox, when I have time I'll fix it in IE 6 & 7. One good thing about work is it has allowed me to become pretty experienced with cross-browser CSS support. I received a new notebook and finally installed IE 7. Looks like I may have to make a few adjustments to this site!

While integrating, I ran into a bug with Winamp not playing songs with special character in the name. It worked before so my guess is it was the upgrade from ColdFusion 5 to 7. I ended up having to specify the charset of the outputted playlist file.

What else is new? While looking for a solution for the Winamp issue I came across Clamp, another command line program for Winamp. Currently, I use Clever, but it only supports basic commands and is the main reason why I wanted to switch to using VLC rather than Winamp. Now I'm thinking of sticking with Winamp for music and use VLC for movies. It's perfect because I did test running a playlist through VLC and kept crashing after a dozen songs.

I'll be happy to add support for skipping to a particular place on the player timeline and being able to move items around on the current playlist. I'll probably have it reload the playlist during a song change so you're less likely to notice the change.

I've also begun spec'ing out plans for other projects I have interest in doing. I'll share details on those as soon as I have something to show in a couple months.