#790 More Man Walking

27th January 2024 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: Mark releases an album, Caroline describes ballet, scientists put salt in tea, plus eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and Independent music.

Songs played

PixiePunk – No Replays – from Los Angeles, CA – direct from artist
Zep Hurme – Take Me Higher (feat. Leza Boyland) – from Finland – source
The Kiss That Took A Trip – Skull and Crossbones – from Spain – source
Mark Marshall – This Town (remastered) – from Kingston, NY – source
LessXmorE – Crazy Monkey – from Nice, France – source
Radioontheshelf – Navigation of the Souls (feat. Unreal dm) – from Earth – source
Samie Bower – 2Night – from Los Angeles, CA – source
Mark Marshall – Man Walking (remastered) – from Kingston, NY – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Bandcamp: <a href="https://markmarshall.bandcamp.com/album/62">Mark Marshall – 62</a><br />
<a href="https://ccjam.otherside.network/2024/01/25/ccjam-72-mark-marshall/">CCJam 72 – Mark Marshall</a><br />
Caroline explains the ballet<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68085304">US scientist recommends adding salt to make perfect cup of tea</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>Podcrawl Late Winter 2024</strong> on Saturday 27 January from 18:00 UK time – <a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl/">more details</a>

<strong>The time has come to start thinking about your submissions for the Listeners Choice, episode 800, in April!</strong><br />
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The next show will be episode 791 which will be streamed live on Friday 2 February 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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CCJam 72 – Mark Marshall

25th January 2024 / Leave a comment

In episode 72 of CCJam, Dave features the music of the US singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Mark Marshall.

All of the music that Mark has released is available to listen to and purchase from Bandcamp, including his latest album “62” which was released this week. His music is also available on all good streaming services.

Mark Marshall, with his back to us, looking at his recording studio, and surrounded by various instruments and equipment. The digits 62 are superimposed over the image.

The tracks included on this episode are:

Red Electric 2024 (from the album 62)
From The Inside (alternate mix) (from the album 62)
XAexp06 (bedding, never actually released)

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#789 Bit of a buzz

20th January 2024 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: Caroline goes to the ballet, Dave goes on a date, plus eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and Independent music.

Songs played

Morrisframe – Larger Than Life – from Vietnam – source
Pixiepunk – Mad Magic – from Los Angeles, CA – Direct from artist
Stefan Kartenberg – Fascist Dawn (feat. ThomasJoerg) – from Germany – source
somefitlyquiteplenty – Maze of City Lights – from South Korea – source
Radioontheshelf – I Can’t Let Go (feat. Songboy3, Stefan Kartenberg) – from Earth – source
Pierce Murphy – Romance and Religion – from Denver, CO – source
Raja – Not A Fool (feat. Beng Calma-Alcazaren) – from Germany – source
The Older Ones – Greed – from Moscow, Russia – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Caroline’s ballets<br />
Dave’s date<br />
<a href="https://hackerpublicradio.org/">Hacker Public Radio</a> – record a show that is of interest to hackers!

Upcoming events

<strong>The time has come to start thinking about your submissions for the Listeners Choice, episode 800, in April!</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 753 and 799!

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Please leave us feedback on the music or any of the topics that we’ve discussed.
The next show will be episode 790 which will be streamed live on Friday 26 January 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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#788 Jumping the shark

13th January 2024 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: jumping the shark, Vostok, The Loch, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and Independent music.

Songs played

Tony Petersen – Northeast – from Minneapolis, MN – source
Florens – Noise Of Life – from Benevento, Italy – source
Sean Ferree – The Naysayer – from USA – source
Going Commando – One Chance – from Vernon, Canada – source
Enigmatic Clergy – La La La – from Liverpool, UK – source
Pierce Crask – Sparkle and Shine – from Chicago, IL – submitted by August Forte from NoVo Management and Publicity
Joe Pajaree Project – Arcadian Fields – from Oklahoma City, OK – source
Jon Worthy – I’m Sorry – from Nashville, TN – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark">Jumping the shark</a><br />
stevealten.com: <a href="https://www.stevealten.com/vostok/">Vostok, by Steve Alten</a><br />
IMDB: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6734482/">The Loch (TV Mini Series 2017)</a>

Upcoming events

<strong>The time has come to start thinking about your submissions for the Listeners Choice, episode 800, in April!</strong><br />
Simply <a href="https://thebugcast.org/choice/">submit your favourite tracks</a> played between episodes 753 and 799!

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The next show will be episode 789 which will be streamed live on Friday 19 January 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
<a href="https://euterpiaradio.ch/">Euterpia Radio</a> for the use of their Shoutcast server

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#787 Twingey buttocks

6th January 2024 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: our New Year celebration, Caroline’s twingey buttocks, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

FromSkyToAbyss – Sister – from Moscow, Russia – source
M.U.S.I.C.A (Music Uniting Soulmates In Covid19 Aftermath) – Flying Minchia – Non Vegan Song – from Italy – source
Дима Поляков – Белый Песок – from Ukraine – source
Mark Ramsey Gott – Do You Know The Number? – from Nottingham, UK – source
Joshua Wales – The Haze – from London, UK – source
Wicked Heads – Lullaby – from Poland – source
Michael Ellis – Killerkaleidoskop – from Oldenburg, Germany – source
Courtney Nord – Moth – from USA – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

New Year celebrations at Bugcast Towers<br />
Twingey buttocks

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The next show will be episode 788 which will be streamed live on Friday 12 January 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
<a href="https://archive.org/">Internet Archive</a> for hosting the media files<br />
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#786 Circadian misalignment

30th December 2023 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: our Christmas week, losing track of days, a TV recommendation, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Camelot – Law And Order – from Braunschweig, Germany – source
Leeona – Do I – from Russia – source
Lilac Frog – Never Change – from Truro, UK – source
Ed Napoli – Moonlight – from Brazil – source
Azwel – The Aftermath – from New York City, NY – source
Joshua Wales – Just Go – from London, UK – source
Idées Noires – Little Blue – from Toulouse, France – source
Kirigaya – Not Coming Home – from Japan – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

What we got up to over Christmas<br />
What day is it?<br />
TV show recommendation: Netflix: <a href="https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81413928">Obliterated</a> – not for kids or your elders!

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The next show will be episode 787 which will be streamed live on Friday 5 January 2024 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

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The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
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#785 Christmas Eve Eve Eve

23rd December 2023 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: Whamageddon hits number one, our week off last week, listener feedback, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons and Independent music.

Songs played

Mark Marshall – Santa Claus Is Back In Town – from Kingston, NY – source
Samie Bower – One Gift Shawty (For Christmas) – from Los Angeles, CA – source
Pierce Murphy – Good King Wenceslas – from Denver, CO – source
Marco Buono – Kiss Me Under The Mistletoe – from Karlsruhe, Germany – source
Lorenzo’s Music – Friction World – from Madison, WI – source
Kinematic – Christmas Forever – from Melbourne, Australia – source
Eckman & Borelius – Christmas Time Is You – from Malmö, Sweden – source
James Bell – Beyond All Their Wishes – from Stoke On Trent, UK – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Special thanks to Andrew for guest co-hosting last week<br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67800521">Last Christmas scores Christmas number one, beating Sam Ryder and Mariah Carey</a><br />
Our Anniversary last weekend<br />
Listener feedback

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Special thanks go to

Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
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TuxJam 107 – Cherry Tree and Pie

16th December 2023 / Leave a comment

Fellows feeling festive festoon followers with freedom! In this Christmas themed episode and the last one of the year, Kevie, Dave (aka thelovebug) and Andrew (aka mcnalu) have lovingly hand-picked a couple of FOSS goodies for their tenuous yuletide connections.

We look at Retropie (because everybody loves getting games at Christmas) which causes an outbreak of nostalgia amongst your hosts. Also, to make Santa’s life easier whilst he checks his list, we look at the hierarchical note taking app Cherrytree (Kevie also tested out the Android app SourCherry).

The steps that were spoken of in the show for setting up Retropie were as follows:

if you want to use external storage such as a USB thumb drive, then you need to create a folder called retropie-mount on the root of the drive using the PC. On Retropie go to the configuration page and select retropie setup. Then select configuration / tools and this will bring up another menu, scroll all the way down to the bottom and select usbromservice (this will be off the screen when you first look at this menu), select enable and hit OK. Go back to the home screen, press the start button on your controller and reboot the system from the quit option. When Retropie has loaded up to the home screen, plug in the USB drive and wait about 1 minute and then remove the drive again. This will have setup the USB drive with the appropriate folders. If you simply fire a load of ROMs onto a USB then it will not work; they need to go into the specific directory.

By default the sound is sent through the HDMI output, this is no use for me as my monitor does not have speakers. Press menu and select sound setting, you only get headphones or HDMI. Audio via bluetooth is not enabled by default on Retropie. The steps that worked for me on a Raspeberry Pi 400 were:

First I needed to drop out of this graphical UI to a terminal, you can’t use the pad for this, you will need a keyboard.

Press F4 to take you to a terminal
Install the pulseaudio-module-bluetooth with the command sudo apt install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
Add the user to the bluetooth group with the command sudo adduser pi bluetooth
Now we need to tell the Pi to use the connected bluetoooth audio speaker and for this we need to use a text editor, I used Nano as it was already installed: sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa
Add the line load-module module-switch-on-connect
Save and exit the file
Now we need to tell bluetooth to enable the audio service. Again we need to edit a file: sudo nano /etc/bluetooth/main.conf
Find the [General] section and add the line: Enable=Source,Sink,Media,Socket
Save and exit the file
Reboot the system with sudo reboot
On reboot select configuration on the home screen and select Bluetooth
Select Pair and Connect to Bluetooth Device (make sure that your device is in pairing mode)
Select Configure Bluetooth Connect Mode and then select background

I noticed after starting playing is that I had a black border around my screen. To remove this go to configuration, select raspi-config and then select Display Options, then scroll to Underscan and select No. This won’t affect you if you have this connected to a TV, but it will if connected to a monitor. Once you exit the settings it will ask if you want to reboot, you will need to reboot for this to take effect. Upon reboot the black border is removed.

The artwork is not loaded by default and it isn’t clear how to get this, however it is not difficult. When you have your ROMs listed in front of you, press start on your controller and select the Scraper option, then select Scrape Now and all of your ROMs will have their artwork. This is purely optional and only an aesthetic addition. A word of warning is that it will go through each ROM and ask which art you would like or which version of the game it is. If you are like me and have 1000s of ROMs then this is something that you may wish to skip unless you really wish to spend a lot of time configuring your system.

This episode is festively spiced with the following mix of festive tracks:

Zha Ton – Jingle Bells (orchestral version)
Mark Marshall – Santa Clause is Back In Town Thanks to Mark Marshall for giving us permission to play this track.
Aryeh Frankfurter – God Rest Ye Merry, (sic) Gentlemen
Highland Saga – Auld Lang Syne Thanks to Highland Saga for giving us the permission to play the track

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#784 Bugchill

9th December 2023 / Leave a comment

This week on The Bugcast: we’re joined by a Doctor, discuss rhubarb and bed bugs, discuss the Doctor, and eight tracks of fantastic Creative Commons music.

Songs played

Jami Sieber – Undercurrent – from Washington state, USA – source
Egor Budennyy – Stop The Night – from Russia – source
Jami Sieber – Undercurrent – from Erlangen, Germany – source
Kristian Vuljar – Air – from Frankfurt, Germany – source
Tramo – Night – from New York, USA – source
Mr Peel – Over – from Marbella, Spain – source
Aryeh Frankfurter – Folksong – from California, USA – source
Scott Whiddon – Maybe That’s Enough For Now – from Lexington, KY – source

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

Topics

Dave is joined by Andrew Conway as his special guest co-host this week!<br />
The Guardian: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/08/uk-bans-popular-garden-plant-gunnera-after-study-finds-it-an-invasive-species">UK bans giant rhubarb after study finds popular garden plant is invasive species</a><br />
BBC News: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67655992">Two arrested in France over alleged bedbug scam</a><br />
BBC iPlayer: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001t42d/doctor-who-2023-wild-blue-yonder">Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder</a>

Upcoming events

<strong><a href="https://tuxjam.otherside.network/podcrawl">Podcrawl Jitsi Christmas 2023</a></strong><br />
Saturday 16 December 2023 from 18:00 UK time

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There will be no show on Friday 15 December!
The next show will be episode 785 which will be streamed live on Friday 22 December 2023 at 21:30-ish UK time (GMT/UTC).
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Special thanks go to

Andrew for guest co-hosting the show this week!<br />
Our <a href="https://thebugcast.org/support">supporters</a>!<br />
The artists for allowing us to play their music.<br />
Everyone who joined us in the chat room for the live broadcast of this show.<br />
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TuxJam 106 – Gifts for Geeks 2023

5th December 2023 / Leave a comment

It is time for our annual list of ~~things we really want for Christmas~~ things we want geeks throughout the world to receive for Christmas. Partners, friends and relatives of geeks take note! TuxJam will return to its usual format for a December Christmas show.

Stocking Fillers (below £10)