ID3 v2.3 MP3 Embedded Images

I've just spent the better part of two days trying to figure out how to extract an image embedded in an mp3 is AS3. Given a starting point of I didn't even know they embedded images in mp3's (doesn't sound like a very good idea to me) - and then having looked at the ID3 v2.3 site (now on 2.4) I felt none the wiser.

It's the most seriously unhelpful documentation on an overly complicated file format. With a few added extras, just to make you chuckle, like an image format of "$11 A bright coloured fish".

Salvation from the horror of trying to make sense all this came in the form of Ben Stucki and his Metaphile AS3 Library.

Yahoo podcast player

This is the yahoo player:

Googles podcast player

Just testing Googles Podcasting software to see if it works with ID3 v2.3 tags (with embedded images) before developing my own podcast reader. Be prepared to be entirely underwhelmed by the content of this poscast.

Spitting feathers at loosing Spotify

Bloody McAfee. Spoil sports.

Deleting spotify

Resource Management in AS3

Brushing up on my AS3 for creating clients for WebORB applications. Amongst some of the new issues in AS3 is troublesome garbage collection. There are some good articles on Resource Management on Grant Skinners website.

Podcasting

I can't say it's going to be regular, but as part of testing an interface I'm creating for schools podcasting software there might be the odd podcast up here soon.

...or not.

WebORB

Starting a project working on the Midnight Coders WebORB, which links client side Flash applications with server side .NET services (or PHP etc). Looks quite interesting - if you like that sort of thing. :)

The F*tping end

So it's all working now - turns out it was the Samba configuration was all wrong for CentOS.

Here's an article on setting up Active Directory for CentOS

More vsftp...

Further to that post, it turns out that vsftpd was never working it was OpenSSH that was running the sftp server. Getting vsftpd to work with the configuration we need on our server is more difficult than I initially imagined.

It turns out the issue is with the PAM/Samba configuration. The ghost image that this machine was built off of only has a /etc/pam_samba.conf file and no pam.conf file. So I'm continuing investigations into what has to be done to the Samba installation to get vsftpd to use Samba to get network authentication.

*Joy*

HA – and now I’m getting a 530 on my own account… Grr..