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I was intended to buy an earphones because I didn’t have a good quality earphones about 2 months. I decided to buy one of MX series of Sennheiser with help of a friend of mine. He let me try his MX 160 earphone. I like its quality and the resolution of the sound.

I made some research about the best price. Darty seems to provide best price. But i didn’t find its site assuring to give my credit card information. Then i have gone to Media Markt to check the prices. But it was more expensive than Darty. They have the claim of best price that says if you find better price in İstanbul so we give the double of difference. According to their claim I wanted to buy the product to same price as Darty. They just said internet sites are not proof for better price, the proof needed to be an insert or printed advertisement.

The reason why i wanted to buy from Media Markt was that i was near to Media Markt and there is no Darty located on my daily route. Their rejection irritated me so i just didn’t wanna buy it from there.

Then today, i have gone to Kadıköy, and after a little bargain with the seller, i have bought the earphones with the same price as Dart offers from a small techno-market .

I have been testing my earphones for couple of hours, it work like a charm, but my notebooks sound card is not enough to feed it. It causes a little lack of sound quality. When i use sound based devices like mp3 player, it works more efficiently.

PS: If you are going to buy it please be careful about buying the original one. Imitations may bother you. In Turkey product should have Metan bandrole on the box.

These days I am really into Amarok and music. Maybe its because my continuing graduation project about digital filtering. I’m interested in and working on sound signals.

Today I had a question mark on my mind; why I couldn’t use my multimedia keys of my notebook on Amarok? By default I could use the multimedia keys with native gnome players such as totem, Rhythmbox and etc. Since I couldn’t find satisfying native media player on gnome, so I prefer Amarok.

After a goggling session i have found an Amarok Script in the kde-apps.org which is called Gnome Multimedia Keys 2. By installing it my blue leded multimedi keys work like a charm.

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In fact i have started to hate Last.fm after blocking non-subscribed users out of US, UK and Germany to listen music on their system. I have searched similar sites to consider my music taste and give me same mixture of songs. I must confess that i couldn’t find one like Last.fm .

Around these thoughts first i tried some tricks to listen music on it but it was nothing but a failure. Then i have decided to use last.fm to determine mine music taste by scrobbling. So I could benefit from its recommendations. But there were a small problem, my favorite music player couldn’t scrobble my statistics…

I have been using Ubuntu and Amarok for a long long time. Amarok has Last.fm plugin for years that enables both listening and scrobbling. But this time after doing configuration Amarok couldn’t able to save my login information that ask everytime. As a programmer i guess by not having the login information Amarok couldn’t be able to call Web Service to scrobble songs which needs authentication…

Lets cut the long story short, since Amarok is native KDE application it wants to save the login information for Last.fm to KDE Wallet, but in Ubuntu, i don’t have KDE Wallet installed and i don’t wanna have. We should say Amarok to ignore wallet! If we do so Amarok will save data on plain text. It’s not safe at all but its not a big deal for me and for the majority i thing. To do this the file ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc should be edited. To edit this file it should be opened by an editor, it could be gedit, nano, vi, vim, emacs, etc. whatever you want. In following command-line example i used vim.tiny which is one of the default editors in Ubuntu:
$ vim.tiny ~/.kde/share/config/amarokrc

In editor Service_LastFm section should be found which seems like:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=no
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

The bold line “ignoreWallet=no” should be changed:
[Service_LastFm]
fetchSimilar=false
ignoreWallet=yes
scrobble=true
sessionKey=

After this changed made, Amarok should be restarted if it was open. Then you sould do your Last.Fm configurations from Settings. Then it will write login information to the file that was edited. Both username and password could be seen from that file. Better not to share that file after this configuration!

Kind Regards..