And further, the “You have unused icons on your desktop” balloon that just won’t stop bugging me right now. I only have six icons on my desktop, for crying out load. And it puts an icon in the system tray! Go away, annoying things….

One of the first things I do when I install Windows is to turn the sounds off. Quite why there are so many of the damn things I’m not sure. I don’t really need some noise to tell me that a program has crashed: I’m either looking at the screen and will see, or I’m not looking at the screen and so don’t care. (The main reason, of course, is just that they interrupt my music though.)

Could someone please enlighten me as to why the hell so many propgrams in Windows choose to put such stupid, useless, idiotic icons in my system tray?! Why?! I have five icons in my tray that I have never used, will never use and don’t want to ever see again.

Why do ATI and the makers of the little pointing stick thing on my laptop feel so self-important that I might want to change my resolution from the system tray or alter my pointing stick sensitivity? Has anyone ever done it? Why do who-ever made the keep-the-system-uptodate software think I’ll ever care to use their icon? And don’t get me started on anti-virus software. Make the icons go away…

So I added a few things to my mp3 program. It’s now got a playlist, where you can see currently queued songs. I’ve also implemented multiple selection in both the folder and playlists so you can choose what to play quicker. Finally, if you try to queue or play a folder, all the files in the folder are queued.

It still crashes a lot, however. See screenshot for current status. If anyones interested in helping code (Mono/C#), maybe we can start up an sf.net project; I might well do that anyway for the CVS facilities. Drop me a line, I can bribe you with Gmail invites =)

I’m writing a program. It’s quite exciting in a way, because it’s a very long time since I coded anything more than a few lines just for the fun of it. I’m coding something that I’ve needed for a while. First I’ll state the problem:

When downloading music files from the net, you are often going to have duplicates and bad files. All the music players I have at the moment do a good job of divorcing the music from the file system; this is a Good Thing when I am listening to music I’ve happily categorised. However, there is the time between downloading a file and importing it into your music library when you are deciding whether the downloaded file is good enough. Here, the connection to the file system is essential: you want to be able to delete bad files and move good files to reasonably named folders within your music library, ready for importing to your favourite music player.