OpenH323 vs. RH8, standard tagging for MP3 and Vorbis

Doofus is trying to get me to help him test using NetMeeting for a client of ours which is sort of interested. In reality it’s the owner of a client, which earns a dubious place in my work queue, but I’ll attempt to attend to it as best possible. That said, apparently the Open Gatekeeper H.323 Proxy at least doesn’t like to compile under GCC 3.2 apparently, which is what RH8 includes. This project requires the OpenH323 project’s libraries as well as their (I think it’s theirs) pwlib. Both of the versions distributed from the SourceForge.net project I mentioned above don’t really seem interested in compiling in GCC 3.2 either. RH8 does include packages named openh323, openh323-devel, and pwlib. I tried installing those and then compiling the H.323 proxy mentioned above, when I learned that the proxy had basically the same errors that the older versions of the OpenH323 stuff included. I think the OpenH323 project is supposed to include some binaries too, but they’re not in the openh323 package that I’m getting in RH8, so maybe they’re just not present in RH8. Or I hallucinated them. Final note: there is a pwlib-devel package that I didn’t install, but should have. Grab all four if you want to try to do anything even remotely useful, I suspect.

I’ve downloaded several albums over the past few days. Albums of note currently: 11 Beatles albums (all the major ones, excepting one or two I suppose, such as Yellow Submarine which I suspect I hate), The Apples In Stereo Velocity of Sound, Cocteau Twins Treasure, Cowboy Junkies The Trinity Session, and Liz Phair Whip-smart. This is not all I’ve downloaded, just the ones I like the most right now. (I just put on Magical Mystery Tour.) Looks like a total of 28 albums so far, mostly off Soulseek which I find to be quite nice. I wish it had the ability to filter based on bit rate, though.

Given this wealth of new albums, not even counting those that have been sitting on my drive untended for many months, I opted to go back and make some modifications to some documents I made that (basically) standardize ID3 tags. I’ll be posting them up here soon, maybe tonight if I finish them.

I really need to post the DD soundtrack too. I know. :(