{"id":158,"date":"2007-03-01T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T20:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-03-01\/solutions-wanted-little-irritations-that-drive-me-nuts\/"},"modified":"2007-03-01T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-01T20:41:53","slug":"solutions-wanted-little-irritations-that-drive-me-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2007-03-01\/solutions-wanted-little-irritations-that-drive-me-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Solutions Wanted: Little Irritations That Drive Me Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post is going to be a bunch of little things that irritate me about various software that I use. They’re not quite annoying enough for me to learn AppleScript\/Songbird extensions\/whatever and fix them myself, but I’m hoping that my readers will have solutions for at least some of these issues.<\/p>\n

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Unmute my computer every morning.<\/p>\n
In the evenings I may turn down the sound or mute my MacBook Pro, to avoid annoying the kids or whatever. Every morning at 7AM (or whenever I wake my computer after 7am), I want the sound back to full volume and unmuted.<\/p>\n
Play pieces randomly, not tracks.<\/p>\n
I would like my music player to understand that the six movements of a Rheinberger Mass belong together, when playing in random mode. The cognitive dissonance of playing the Sanctus<\/cite> and then skipping to “She was a Hotel Detective” is painful. I’m happy to manually group the tracks when I first import them. Note: I’m currently using iTunes, but I don’t mind switching.<\/p>\n
Disable music with words while writing<\/p>\n
I would like my music player to avoid playing any music with words while I’m writing. I just can’t verbally multitask like that. I’m happy to tell the player which music has words, and tell it when I’m writing.<\/p>\n
My feed reader should coalesce duplicate postings<\/p>\n
Frequently I will get the same blog posting via Planet Mozilla<\/a>, an individual blog feed<\/a>, and even Google blogsearch feeds<\/a>. I really desperately want my feed reader to know that these are the same post and display it once in my inbox, instead of multiple times.<\/p>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is going to be a bunch of little things that irritate me about various software that I use. They’re not quite annoying enough for me to learn AppleScript\/Songbird extensions\/whatever and fix them myself, but I’m hoping that my readers will have solutions for at least some of these issues. Unmute my computer every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}