Is w32codecs Freezing Your Ubuntu?

Wanted to play an Realmedia file? Installed w32codecs? Now Totem is freezing your Ubuntu Hardy? And by freezing, I mean: you can move the mouse, nothing else workse, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no ctrl-alt-F1.

Then do the following:

1. Make sure you have gstreamer0.10-pitfdll installed.
2. Install (if you haven't already) w32codecs.
3. Execute the following three commands in the terminal:
   rm -rf ~/.gstreamer-0.10
   gst-inspect-0.10
   gst-inspect-0.10 pitfdll
4. Try Totem again. Should work now.

Muxtape Downloader Shell Script

I got to confess something: I love Muxtape! Did you know there is a userscript which lets you download the songs? It's not encouraged though...

Also: I've been trying to learn Shell Scripting. So I decided: why not make a Muxtape downloader. This is my first shell script (longer than a few lines). I've thrown together code I found at various site, and I find programming with bash... special. Currently: the script looks like this (warning: it's rotten to the bone!):

#!/bin/bash

#Fetch URL
wget -O /tmp/muxtape_html.out http://$1.muxtape.com

#Fetch titles
sed -n '/<div class="name">/,/<\/div>/p' /tmp/muxtape_html.out > /tmp/muxtape_titles.out
titles=`cat /tmp/muxtape_titles.out`
echo ${titles//<div\ class="\">/} > /tmp/muxtape_titles.out
titles=`cat /tmp/muxtape_titles.out`
echo ${titles//\ <\/div>/;} > /tmp/muxtape_titles.out

#Fetch kettle
egrep -o "Kettle.*" /tmp/muxtape_html.out > /tmp/muxtape_links1.out
sed -e 's,Kettle(,,' /tmp/muxtape_links1.out > /tmp/muxtape_links2.out
sed -e 's,);,,' /tmp/muxtape_links2.out > /tmp/muxtape_links.out

cat /tmp/muxtape_links.out | tr -d '[' > /tmp/muxtape_links.out
cat /tmp/muxtape_links.out | tr -d ']' > /tmp/muxtape_links.out
cat /tmp/muxtape_links.out | tr -d "'" > /tmp/muxtape_links.out

#Make arrays
titles=`cat /tmp/muxtape_titles.out`
IFS=";"
titlesa=($titles)

foo=`cat /tmp/muxtape_links.out`
IFS=","
bar=($foo)
compar=$(( ${#bar[@]}/2 ))

#Get songs
for (( i = 0 ; i < ${#bar[@]} ; i++ )) do
if [ $i -lt $compar ]
then
k='http://muxtape.s3.amazonaws.com/songs/'
a=${bar[$i]}
b=${k}$a
q="?"
k=${b}$q
e=${bar[$i+${#bar[@]}/2]}
z=${k}$e
echo ${titlesa[$i]}
wget -O ${titlesa[$i]}.mp3 $z
fi
done

Yuck! But it works, save it in script.sh, make it executable and then ./script.sh muxtape_username
This will save all mp3s. It took me an hour to figure this out, and I'm sure lots of you could do this much better. Still, it was cool to build... but in Perl or PHP I could've done this much quicker and cleaner. Oh and by the way: don't abuse this... Muxtape are friendly people.