I'm also off to Bangalore from the 26th Dec to the 6th Jan. A long vacation. Agenda: meet up with some friends, meet a copule (the only?) of DDs in India and sign keys.
Among other news, AudioLink has been progressing pretty well. v0.05 was released last week, it saw a lot of changes, a new script that makes creating a config-file for oft-used options and the database a breeze. Manual pages were added, so there's a lot of ready documentation available now. The Debian package too has been built; am waiting for a sponsor for it to be uploaded. In all, I think AudioLink is shaping up to be a good music categorizer / cataloguer.
I'll keep you updated about how my meeting with Salvador goes... promises to be fun! :-)
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