iTunes 8012 Error Solved

iTunes kept throwing up an 8012 error (some items could not be downloaded) on some items in my queue. After a wild goose chase around the web, and messing around with the list.plist file in C:\Users\USERNAME\Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Downloads\ I discovered it was actually related to Privoxy. Temporarily disabling it will solve the problem. Adding '.apple.com' to Privoxy's fragile sites list (under site-specific rules in the default.action file) will fix it permanently.

If you're not running Privoxy, it may be related to other proxies, firewalls or such that you may be running.

Decoding Alesis xR-16 Sample ROMs

I finally managed to get around to extracting those ROMs. The hacky code I wrote is here, and you can download the decoded samples here.

What next? I might get round to writing an encoder.