electric relaxation

Ride: Lotus Elan
Where: I-280 N, near San Mateo

This guy was booking down 280, doing the Miata dodge and weave. I thought it was a Miata, or maybe a Celica spyder, until I got in for a close look. Surprisingly, all three of those cars would fall into about the same price range today. I guess the Elan isn’t held in particularly high regard.

Ride: Some kind of Plymouth maybe?
Where: 17th and Guerrero, across from the 500 Club.

That’s the most serious hood ornament I’ve ever seen. Obviously this guy is some sort of Shaman Witch Doctor. Wish I knew what kind of car it was; it was in really nice shape. I like the side ports near the front fender, I assume those are stock but they might be an aftermarket addition.

What a PITA. EasyTag in Dapper can’t edit tag information for .m4a (AAC) files, nor can you easily compile a version that can edit tag info, because the version of libmp4v2 in the repositories is too old. Debian has an easytag-aac package, but you can’t install or use it on Dapper because it’s system library dependencies are too new.

Fortunately, I wasted an hour of my life and resolved this by downloading a new version of the MPEG4 IP package, building the libmp4v2 part, installing it, and then rebuilding easytag with –enable-mp4.

Since libmp4v2 is also used by gstreamer for AAC playback, and I wasn’t convinced that it was sufficiently backward compatible, I hacked up the linking step of easytag’s build so that it statically links libmp4v2. The resulting easytag can run on Dapper, and edit .m4a tag information.

So come and get it:

EasyTag with AAC support for Dapper