XBMC Boxee UI Switcher

July 22, 2010 bash, htpc, lirc, media, script Comment

I bind this script to a button on my LIRC remote to easily switch between XBMC and Boxee on my HTPC. XBMC’s interface using the Rapier skin and fanart is much more attractive, but Boxee offers great social network integration (read: Youtube).

Start irexec daemon

July 22, 2010 bash, htpc, media, script Comment

#!/bin/bash # Checks to see if irexec is running and runs it if not already running. youruser=richard # Test to see if IRexec is running first, if so kill it, then restart if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep -vi start|grep -i irexec then ps aux|grep -i $youruser|grep -i irexec |grep -vi start|awk '{print $2}'|xargs kill else # Do nothing echo "irexec already dead!" fi #test to see if an instance of irexec is already running if ps -ef|grep -v grep|grep irexec then # do nothing echo "irexec already running" else # start irxevent irexec -d /home/$youruser/.lircrc & fi exit

Count files and folders

July 22, 2010 bash, snippet Comment

# Prints the folder name number of files and folders in each subdirectory. for i in *; do show="$i"; num=`ls "$i" | wc -l`; echo "$show: $num"; done;

Find text in files

July 22, 2010 bash, snippet 2 Comments

Strip ID3 Tags from FLAC

July 20, 2010 bash, media, snippet Comment

ID3 tags are not part of the FLAC specification so I decided to strip them from my FLAC files.