I've been burning cassettes to CD with my new Tascam CC-222 MKIII. I've been conflicted over whether to blog about it here or on MySpace, since it's a cross between the technical stuff I do (programming, scripting) and the creative stuff from my past (old radio talk shows). But I'm kinda sorta journaling the process on my MySpace blog.

But I do want to put a plug in for rb-appscript, which lets you use Ruby instead of AppleScript to script Mac applications. Just playing with irb and appscript is major fun!

I found this weekend that I only needed to skim the first 60 pages of Agile Development with Ruby On Rails to build a quickie database entry form: CD title, original air date, burn date, notes, etc. But after I post the data, the return page doesn't tell me the ID, which I need to write on the newly burned disc. I have to dig through the Rails API docs to figure that one out.

Then I need to write an rb-appscript that prompts me for the disc ID when I insert the newly burned CD. The script will automagically fill in all the CD data for me.