So Kathryn gave me some CDs for Christmas. One was St. Vincent, the other Elizabeth Cotten. Being as I’m trying to be better about these things; and also because I fancied listening to Elizabeth Cotten over dinner, I ripped it and plonked it over on the media server.
Unfortunately, it did not deign to quite work as desired, and as occasionally happens the kitchen media player fell off the network (I think it needs a more powerful power supply) and refused to reconnect. So we ended up listening to it on my laptop…
Today I ripped the St. Vincent album and despite, or perhaps because of my general malaise around doing anything today (the whole day has slid by without me achieving anything much) I suddenly took it upon myself to sort out the clean rips on the media server. I sat and manually sorted through each folder checking the names, that the format was correct, that the folder names were organised the way I wanted, then I shuffled the ‘clean’ ones over to a new folder.
Then I did it. The button looked so innocent, and I’ve pressed it so many times in the past.
And Logitech Media Server disappeared. It runs as a service on linux and checking the services list revealed:
[ ? ] logitechmediaserver
After an XKCD worthy hour I finally managed to get it uninstalled, removed it’s special login, the preference files apt refused to remove and got it reinstalled. It still seems to be doing some slightly odd things, but I’m putting that down to the fact it’s still scanning ‘rather a lot’ of music files.
And now I’ll get back to reading my magazine, which was the plan before it all started.
