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Someone just mailed me and said they got a 50% recognition rate on their music collection.

Now its hard to tell how much matched via TRM and how much matched via plain metadata, but that is starting to improve.

sounds v promising, i should have another play...

The tagger is still only windows, but we're working on that.

I hope to have linux/mac covered soon.

that'd be good. a lot of MB-minded folk are linux heads (and macists)

any prospect of 100% scruffy hippy free etc TRM, or does it still use blackbox server?

Yup.

And I feel guilty for leaving them out.

Don't beat y'self up!

:-0

I'm sold.

on?

...there's just a kinda cultural tension with a lot of the opensource / slashdot crowd, who demand everything free Free and FREE...

i like free.

but i did pay for os x, so i'm not opposed to shelling out ;)

check out the fire in my house last night

holy crap

my sentimates exactly

anyone get hurt?

Eeek. That looks rough.

Im not even living there right now

nope, no one was hurt

but my name is on the lease.. so im hoping everything is OK monetarily

hopefully

fire: scary!

danbri: yes, thanks

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this might be off topic here, but i was wondering if anyone could recommend some tools that would run on linux for cleaning up hiss and pops in some audio samples ive recorded

ruaok, I checked. Hoi Vong is doing a student project supervised by a friend at ILRT... (Simon Price).

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evening...

afternoon

I've actually written some MB code. :-)

Amid doing 12 loads of my GF's laundy.

and mind you a US load is a bit larger than your average EU load. :-)

I saw the commits. What does it feel like to be a programmer again?

strange. I need to get my bearings for TP.

I've not worked on it so long I'm having a hard time visualizing the overall picture.

I need to step back, wrap my head around it, improve a few things and then spend the next two days coding like a mad man.

Don't rush it. Take your time and get it right :-)

There goes the 45 min time. Time for laundry switch.

That is why I am going to step back a little and eval what I've done so far.

I've learned a few valuable lessons writing the EMUS download manager for linux.

widowtwanky?

brb

In pantomime? Fictional washerwoman.

damn

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12 is the going estimate.

I've got 5 down so far, and not quite half way. May stretch to 13-14.

she must love you up good :)

I'm doing laundy and she pays for our trip to Burning Man -- so I don't care how much laundy I have to do... :-)

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ruaok: that clustering DB stuff does have to use Java

which is why its of no real use to anyone :)

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ruaok: why couldn't you get a deal to have every song in emusic tagged?

kyleboon: I'm working with emusic on that. However, since they are part of vivendi interactive, they are getting shuffled around and working with MB is not exactly high priority.

Besides we already have half their metadata -- that is one of the things I seeded MB with.

ah

thats cool

I really like emusic

I've been downloading tons lately

ruaok: do you have any knowledge about how much money an artist might see from emusic? that you can tell me anyway

I'm glad to hear it. Its still the best online music service out there.

The premise that we set out with when we started emusic was that the artist should get 50% to the take.

But, the model morphed over time and its been a while since I've seen any of the financials.

My understanding is that its a lot better than with traditinal labels, but not 50%.

it would seem that emusic should be fairly profitable.. they just need tons of bandwidth and server space

I heard they kick people who use scripts to download tons of music

one sec...

np

back

Yes, they kick people off who abuse the system.

The people who are the trouble makers are basically sucking down the ENTIRE collection of music.

thats just mean

although I wouldn't mind having the entire punk and ska sub categories :-P

2% of the people account for about 35% of their bandwidth cost.

wow

And that is really not fair to EMUS.

I must be on the higher end... I only download once or twice a week, but I have a tendancy to download like 5 albums at once

that's nothing.

I do that all the time. :-)

To test the linux download manager I just wrote for them I downloaded over 100 albums in one go. :-)

damnit.. I need to fix my linux partition

they are not worried about people downloading 5 albums at a time.

I was thinking most people went one song at a time ;-)

nope.

if you're using the download manager is the same amount of work to download the whole album. :-)

now that my mp3 file server is probably dead.. Im going to be trying to get a lot of the music back that I downloaded illegally years ago

mp3s rock

emusic asked me for cc =[

so?

i dont have one

oh

free emusic accounts rock the block, as phiedauex would say. :-)

damn.. you have one?

yeah, how am I supposed to test the apps I write?

good call

were you one of the founders?

no. employee # 6 or #7

ah