brendan

@br_en_d_an
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nerd 🤓
podcaster 🎤
vintage iPod collector 🎧
coffee lover ☕️
cable enthusiast 🧶
st:voy 🛸
mod researcher ⌨️ and first-time caller ☎️
Websitehttps://theonlyblogever.com/
ListenBrainzhttps://listenbrainz.org/user/br3nd4n/
Tagging with MusicBrainz and the always cool beets on this episode of theonlyblogever, https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/beettags.html #MusicBrainz #beets #ID3 #tagging
Tagging Music with MusicBrainz and beets | The Only Blog Ever

Organizing and reorganizing my digital music library.

Cleaning up my draft_posts folder, I've discovered 3 blog articles that I wrote and finished, but never posted to the blog. https://theonlyblogever.com/archive for the long-lost posts!
Archive | The Only Blog Ever

This is my technical blog. Brendan's home on the Information Superhighway.

Restored my iBook G4 to stock today with OS X 10.4.11! More on the blog: https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/ibookg4.html #retrocomputing #ibook #powerpc #blog #MARCHintosh
Softmodding your original xbox console in 2026 on the blog: https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/ogxbox.html. Did you ever mod a console?
Xbox (OG) Softmodding & Gaming in 2026 | The Only Blog Ever

The original Xbox is still a great console to mod and to play.

I did a redesign and some updating on my blog this weekend. Here's a blog post with all the details: https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/web-redesign.html.

Thank you to @brennan, @kevq and @davatron5000 for your design inspiration! #frontend #webdev #design

Finally got my #ListenBrainz profile cleaned up and the stats page is reporting the data accurately.
Blog post with the details: https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/scrobblin3.html. I'm now br3nd4n @ https://listenbrainz.org/user/br3nd4n/ on ListenBrainz! Here are my favourite albums from the last 6 months. #openscrobbling #scrobbling #nextfm
I used catskippity to create some python scripts that would clean up scrobbles or listen data exported from spotify and youtube music destined for import into ListenBrainz https://github.com/brend-an/prune-scrobbles/ and https://theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/scrobblin3.html. #scrobbling #ListenBrainz
GitHub - brend-an/prune-scrobbles: A collection of python scripts to prune scrobbles (or listens) for submitting to ListenBrainz

A collection of python scripts to prune scrobbles (or listens) for submitting to ListenBrainz - brend-an/prune-scrobbles

GitHub
I want to find a solution to scrobble vinyl listens to ListenBrainz. I’m imagining a raspberry pi with a microphone near a speaker that listens to track and identifies it through MusicBrainz and then submits the track to ListenBrainz. Or, I could get something with a barcode scanner and scan the barcode on the record sleeve and it would submit the record. Hmm… #ListenBrainz #scrobbling #MusicBrainz
Don't have much to say, just want this sinus infection to go away!
My new fancy sneakernet offsite backup case. 11 TB raw storage. More on the blurb: https://www.theonlyblogever.com/blog/2026/backupdata.html #homelab #sneakernet #datasovereignty #backupnow