Abbadingo

We’re getting ready for our next free release. A compilation of the emieltapes concerts we did at the Vooruit in Ghent. The release will be a 12″ vinyl feat. Kapotski .

We’re gonna distribute it in a ’shop dropping’ style. Which means we’ll be putting the record in record stores around the globe. If someone ‘finds’ one it will be clearly marked that this record is not for sale and belongs to the lucky finder.

And it doesn’t stop there.

Every record will have a unique ID. With that ID you’ll be able to log on to a tracking site. On that site you can say where and when you found a record and maybe tell a little about yourself. The site is meant to last at least 20 or 30 years. When a record changes owner you’ll be able to follow it on the tracking site…

So, if you wanna help distribute this record by secretly placing some in your local record store please get in touch. Send us an email.

/bye for now

more info at KAPOTSKI

Crass will play again soon!

Here you’ve got Reject of Society, one if their famous lyrics from “The Feeding of the 5000″

Not for me the factory floor,
Sweeping up from nine to four.
Not for me the silly rat race,
I don’t see the point in anycase.
People ask me why I say what I do,
I say to them, “Well wouldn’t you?”
If you were fucked up just like me,
A reject of society.

They say I dig a hole and jump right in,
Well I don’t give a shit about anything,
I don’t comply to their silly rules,
All they are is hypocritical fools.

You give us conscience money,
Now you start to worry.
The Frankenstein monster you created
Has turn against you now you’re hated.

They tell me I’m not what they’d like me to be,
It’s their fault, you can’t blame me.
They fucking tricked me half the time
Now they’ve got to stand in line.
They don’t like it when they see me have fun,
They turn around and then they run.
They don’t listen to what I say,
I’m a reject of society.

Crass - Reject Of Society Lyrics

This is intented as a howto for configuring a machine to share and play music on the local network. In houses, social centers, bars, we always have the need of a system to organize, play share music.

How can we do that in Debian?

mpd - ncmpc - jinzora is the answer! with this combination you are going to have access to:

• Web server to administer, improve, order your music collection
• Console client for the nerd of the house / social center
• A permanent daemon that runs on your machine since you start it until you turn it down.

mpd Music player daemon

ncmpc: mpd console client

jinzora: php/mysql based music library manager

Prepare the machine - Sound

Your machine has to be able to play sound and be connected to a local network (heh…). In my configuration I use ALSA around the system, but you can use also other daemons that go with mpd.

Howto install mpd and the programs and libraries it needs. usually is just apt-get install mpd ncmpc

Prepare the machine - Web server

For installing jinzora, we need a LAMP install.

Don’t forget the gd library, for being able to have the pretty thumbnails of the CDs.

apt-get install php5-gd

Once you’ve done it, install Jinzora.

The process is simple, has a web interface.

You finish with a great music library:

I want to be able to edit and improve the tags of my music, so I edited the file services/settings.php on the jinzora dir and added the line

$allow_id3_modify = “true”;

mpdscribble

Download mpdscribble (http://www.frob.nl/scribble-download.html) debian package, and follow the instructions.

Add your last.fm user. ( you can get a username here: https://www.last.fm/join/ )