RadioRecorder track prefix tip
So, I’m old-school, I guess. Instead of all these fancy podcasts, I use
RadioRecorder to schedule TiVo-like mp3 streams for my favorite radio shows. Now I can hear Morning Edition on my iPod, whenever.
Unfortunately, the iPod’s display is too narrow to disambiguate several recordings (in this case, Morning Edition from 11/16 and 11/17):
 (Radio News) |
| Morning Edition – Nov 1 |
| Morning Edition – Nov 1 |
I started poking around the (GPL) source to RadioRecorder to see if I could hack around this. What I discovered is that RadioRecorder uses [NSDate descriptionWithCalendarFormat:] on the text in the “Title Prefix” field (of the “Track Tags” tab), so you can pop any kind of strftime() compatible formatting codes in there to add date/time information to the beginning of your track names. No coding required!
The prefix I’ve selected begins with [%b %d], which will result in files named “[Nov 11] Morning Edition – Nov 11, 2004 05:00 AM”, which will be easy to distinguish on the iPod screen.
Just thought I’d share that.