#metabrainz

I want to do an audio player that uses MBIDs internally, but still works offline. I will probably just use sqlite and I'm overthinking this

I wonder if you're underthinking this, sadly.

Our database is huge and encompasses many many artists.

how are you going to know what metadata to download beforehand?

you might consider tagging your music collection with Picard, our tagging application.

that pushes a lot of data into tags of your files and then your player can read and display the data found in tags.

I use picard now, but I am considering rearraging my music collection to store audio data in files named by mbid only, and then keep metadata to make sense of those

ok, if that is for a limited number of files, you could fetch the related info via our Web Service (API) and just store the responses in sqlite. then you can parse them just prior to using the data.

will share pics in a minute.

Woo!

ruaok: no, not cleaned out spike, but I'll try and do it before the end of the weekend

perfect.

thoughts?

the top one mimicks the carpets we have in the office.

the other one is more abstract and playful.

Me likes the top one better

me too.

should the hexagons be all spaced perfectly or have some artistic imperfections?

+1 for top one

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and look, summit shirts!

I like the top one too😁

chhavi_: any other feedback on the top one? see the questions above.

I would either color all letters of metabrainz different or a same shade of grey...just that. can't imagine how hexagons will look...

Maybe symmetry is overrated :p

I was hoping to leave the MetaBrainz letters as they are and not mess with them, but to replace those boring an unimaginative straight lines from the previous artist.

honestly, I am happy with the top design as is, perhaps just clarifying if we should have stylistically dishelveled hexagons or perfectly straight ones?

er sorry... Perfectly gayly forwards ones. (as my gay friends from SF would exclaim)

Haha..

I am imagining disheveled hexagons and they don't look that bad. But I am sure many people will like the continuity from the carpet.

I quite like the disheveledness of it.

(Sorry I am not much help.)😂

that helps, actually.

but I kinda want more people to chime in. Perhaps Mr_Monkey since he will look at it a bit too

ruaok: I like the top one better too. I second the re-colouring of the "Brainz" letters, each a different one, so 3 letters to repaint. I can definitely help with that.

I'm not sure where I stand on the symmetry or lack thereof.

I'm hiring Aina to do that -- trying to support our own crew. :)

Good :)

Then I'd say symmetry at the artist's discretion.

oh, I see your point about recoloring letters.

I didn't what chhavi_ was saying.

recolor the letters to represent all the brainz projects, then have the hexagons creep up the wall from the carpet in a mish mash of other colors.

like that?

Like that.

I dig it.

Yep like that.:)

ok, I fished out the colors and am working up marching orders for aina.

yvanzo: are you around by any chance?

ruaok: https://github.com/metabrainz/acousticbrainz-se...

same as LB and CB

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man, i missed github bot

seemed like we didn't get much done without it, no?

haha yeah.

I opened a PR, silly github

Oh well :D

reosarevok: https://www.deseat.me/ -- from the latest email. Now we know who the culprit is. freaking tools.

and sure, I'll give you access to read all of my mail!

screw you.

So, what do we do about it?

I like the "I don't want to know how to remove my account" bit

nothing to do, really.

ruaok: oh, you get those too?

we've been getting them for freesound since gdpr-day

the "I don't want to know how" is new, first emails didn't send it

it took us a long time to find them

we've sent a few emails to them, not much response, and the response that we get aren't very nice/useful

we're finding a _huge_ number of people from whom we get emails who don't even have an account with us

note that the gdpr does give you the ability to verify the validity of the user's request, from what I understand this be a reply which says "in order for us to confirm that this request is valid, please delete your account at [x]"

Ha yes, since gdpr day.

We often can't find associated accounts so we ask them for their editor name, but so far we've gotten few or no responses.

Just another internet nuisance. Just like every new page you visit you have to click through 6 privacy dialogs...

I think we got 3

Or so

Who actually answered

I think those are just automated services and the people who enter their stuff don't know, I mean i hell don't remember all of the various things I've signed up for over the years and forgotten about

so they probably just have a database of "usual suspets" and when someone sends in their email to these services the service just sends "remove "insert email here"'s account thing to all theri "usual suspects"

Well, as far as I can tell they're supposed to check your emails to look what you're subscribed to

But they also do say they have a fair amount of false positives, so

thy probably pick websites with *many* accounts, and, because of our dumb spam acounts ammass, we are in their triggered 2usual suspects" list

possibly

(since it's very likly that a website with millions o users has *that one guys account* probal)

it's cheaper to jsut send the "remove this person" emai lthna ot look if we actualy *do have it ,sicne they they have ot email us directly and go throuh our system and stuff

bitmap / yvanzo: what would you suggest to convert next? Assuming taglookup is ok, but I think it is :)

anyway how do they check which websites? by trying ot sign up with it or loginto the webiste with your email?

afaik there is no automated "does this email have an accoutn with you" service on all websites

CatQuest: as far as I can tell you download an app and then the app looks at your email and sees

uhh.. that sounds megahairy

Like, your email history or whatever

https://www.deseat.me/help - they do also say

"Why do accounts appear even though I’m not a user? Our way of indexing your accounts is not 100% right at all times (yet). So sometimes it may appear as you are a user even though you are not. Apologies for that. A quick and easy way to handle these are to mark it as an invalid account under more."

I wonder how they get that false positive though. i mena if somee email with the right triggering words in i nthe history

but then I wonder about analyzing emaisl and having acces. that soudns megahairy

not to menation that you cna a) do that work yourself and b) if i deleted the signup email or whatever there wont be the info for thme so it's not gonan know

Mr_Monkey: just committed the rest of the creator credit code for -data-js

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