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burningwriter needed a quick way to download all the songs in a Playlist.com playlist (formerly called Project Playlist), so I wrote this quick script to parse the playlist files as links that DownThemAll can read.

To use it, download a playlist from Playlist.com.
You do this by clicking the “Export Playlist To Windows Media Player” link on the right side of the site. If it doesn’t prompt you to download a file, right click the link and select Save As.

Then upload the asx.wvx file here: samutz.com/playlist
The script will generate links from the playlist. You can then download them individually or use something like DownThemAll to get them all at once.

Source and more technical info after the jump.

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I must the the only Borderlands PC player in the world not experiencing Borderlands glitches. Whether it’s gaming blogs like Kotaku or Joystiq, or forums like Steam or Gearbox, all I ever see is bitching and moaning about the glitches, or the game not working, or the game needing a patch.

The game is running great for me on Windows 7 via Steam.

Another silly random project I came up with.

You can find it here: http://www.samutz.com/blargh/articles/borderlands-custom-starter-saves/

I’ll be moving all sites to a new server over the course of the next month.

I’ll contact each site owner/manager individually before I move their site to make sure I move them at a time that’s most convenient for them.

I updated the FlowPlayer article with a working demo of the playlist functions in action.

Custom Playlist Controls on Flowplayer with jQuery

Playlist Demo

Flowplayer is an excellent flash media player, capable of playing video and audio. It comes with it’s own playlist system, but it’s very limited.

This article details how to create a custom playlist system for Flowplayer using jQuery and Flowplayer’s javascript API. This system will allow you to manipulate playlist items without interrupting current playback and adds several functions not available in the Flowplayer JS API.

Read more: Custom Playlist Controls on Flowplayer with jQuery

I love AltNation on Sirius. I listen to it more than any other station. But I recently learned that I could no longer listen to Sirius internet radio because they now charge you extra for it, even if you’re a;ready a satellite subscriber. So I came up with the idea of writing a script that would automatically read songs recently played AltNation and add them to an “AltNation” user on Last.fm. Then from there I could listen to that user’s library.

Today I’ve finally put that idea in to action and created a user called AltNationFan that gets automatically updated with whatever songs AltNation has been playing recently using the Last.fm API.

As far as I can tell (I’m still relatively new to Last.fm), you can only listen to the station via the Last.fm client by adding AltNationFan to your friends list. If that’s the case, I’ll keep an eye on the account and accept any new friend requests that come in.

Am I the only one who sees this in the Left 4 Dead 2 poster?

(I couldn’t really decide what do use for the little girl as there are no girls in TF2.)

It’s that time of year again. Time for me to rant about games even though almost no one is going to read it.

Last year I ranted about games I didn’t really care for, so this time I’ll focus on what I’m looking forward too.

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Got these cards from Netflix in the mail today that have codes for a free month trial.

Go to netflix.com/tellafriend

Use one of these codes:
M360065894295
M330045894955
M380045894205
M350015894215

Expires June 15, 2009