February 18, 2008

Bay Area Concert Feed Part 3: NetDrive to the Rescue

I think I found a solution. iConcertCal will save an ical file to a local drive on my PC. The problem is that Windows will not let you map an FTP location as a local drive. After searching around, I found NetDrive, an unsupported Novell product (I had to download it from a UIC download page). This allowed me to point a new virtual drive (W:\) to mattdougherty.com and move the exported ical file here. You can find it (and subscribe if you want) at http://www.mattdougherty.com/iConcertCal.ics. I created a new Google Calendar with this URL, and replaced the calendar in the gadget on this page. Hopefully the ical file will update automatically without problems.

Let me know if there are local shows you know about that aren't appearing, iConcertCal lets you add additional concerts and artists manually. Also, as a disclaimer in case something super-lame pops up, I'm letting this thing run off my (not all mine) entire music collection unfiltered.

1 comments:

MMB said...

are you calling my music "super lame"