#musicbrainz

bye nikki

I'm already late

but the bus only goes every half an hour

Bugger. :(

= kiwi slang for "fuck" or "oh crap"

BGreeNZ: that's actually a pretty common term

BGreeNZ: you hear it in .us on occasion

Made famous here by Toyota's Hilux TV ads

BGreeNZ: Python's GC is kind of a broken cracked-out reference-count architecture

BGreeNZ: do you have circular references?

mhall: this is not a python problem

luks: just thought i should ask

mhall: How should I know? luks has the source..

I'd point to ruaok, but he isn't here :)

oh, maybe not

can i please get some votes on http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4492661 http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4523417 http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4523459

GURT: Yes, No, or mAybe?

yes :P

:)

Okay.

GURT: what's the difference between a performance alias for a band member and their band nickname?

they don't perform as the nickname

The album taggers are stuck on [Loading album information] and won't pop up with the album names.

BGreeNZ: thanks

uh okay

mhall, i've had that. i think that was the reason i stopped using picard, but that was awhile back

What can I try instead?

GURT: Would you like me to undo them all?

I'd really like to unfuck the tagging on my MP3s.

BGreeNZ: no.. but i dont sugguest blind voting

mhall: at that time there was MB Tagger, but it's obsolete now, especially with the whole use of MIPs and PUIDs

Well, I looked at each one for maybe half a second or so, and I trust you to know what you're doing...

then that isn't blind then i guess

Shit I'm screwed. :-(

And I went to *so much work* to try to get it to run.

which version?

a beta version?

nechto13: can you please help to invite other classical editors for this on mb-users as well as mb-style?

There was a handfull of "add relationships" and "change track times" and stuff, I think..

GURT: yeah, the one with fingerprinting

try useing a non beta version

Ooh! A Blog! :)

yeah but i don't think the nonbetæ support fingerprinting?

oh..then you might just have ot wait

i dont use picard yet so i don't really know the details

it's too hard to install :P

not on ubuntu :)

i'm too lazy to install it

and afraid i wont get it working

hrh

heh

i know you wrote me some lengthy instructions too.. but it was too over welming for me at th e time

nice

3 steps

GURT: I had no problem installing it on Windows 98SE and ME, well, aside from it crashing at startup because it was missing a file..

But, it *installed* without any problem ;-)

i'll do it right now

i might be up all morning playing with it

GURT: What OS do you run?

ubuntu linux

Isn't that Debian in disguise?

BGreeNZ: not quite

so, the memory leaking problem is not in any of our libraries

BGreeNZ: they are a lot less bureaucratical than debian so packages appear quicker but not necessarily are they better

GURT: yeah that's how apt-get works

GURT: "deb http://zim.musicbrainz.org/~luks/ubuntu /" exactly as it says

I see

g0llum: will do. i'm not on mb-users list though, only mb-style. i'll spread the word on irc too. only i think it should be decided how we're gonna reorganize CSG before everyone starts screaming out suggestions

k i'm just double checking

GURT: it's like /debian but with / instead of /debian

BGreeNZ: debian probably has the most intense QA of anybody I ever heard of

My introduction to Debian was when I purchased LindowsOS 4

nechto13: clutcher2 might know who we could take to directly and ask for involvement. but posting to the mailing list won't hurt either

i'm not sure if i should bug MusicIP devs about this or fix it myself :/

I didn't want to pay for "Click 'n' Run", so I learned how to pull packages in through apt

BGreeNZ: sadly the high standards of d.org don't always trickle down to the other distros

BGreeNZ: oh? did you install Lindows, realized you got ripped off and installed free Debian instead?

GURT: Yeah, something like that

;)

oh shit.. menu entry and everything

Then, I had just gotten Debian Woody installed on a desktop (netinstall through 56K modem), and about a week later Sarge was released :(

luks, i could kiss you :D

hehe

so THIS is what picard looks like

Unfortunately, when I tried to upgrade to Sarge, half of X-windows / KDE / Gnome broke :(

Down with DRM!

i switched to linux this past summer after a CD with DRM pretty much hosed my computer

BGreeNZ: oof

DRM?

yeah

digital rights management

GURT: I switched after Windows Server 2003 SP1 fried my encrypted disk driver and I had to decrypt 200GB of stuff using fucking DOS.

Digital rights management?

right/restriction :P

BGreeNZ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Rights_Man...

BGreeNZ: purpose of DRM: you don't buy your music, you rent it

or CRAP -- Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection

lol

GURT: How can any *Compact Disc* have DRM? Unless, of course, you are confusing those 5-inch shiny plastic round things that look like CDs with real CDs

Down with DRM!

BGreeNZ: well technically DRM discs are not allowed to be called compact discs

Yes, that is precisely my point

BGreeNZ: Philips went psycho because they think it's all crazy (which it is) so they revoked permission to call them CDs since they don't follow the $COLOR Book spec

I know

BGreeNZ: but the problem is, of course, once a term enters pop culture, there's not much to be done

it was just permission to use the CD logo that was revoked

inhouseuk: yes, that's all there was *to* revoke

CD = ("Compact" | "Corrupt") "Disc" ?

both discs have the compact disc logo on them

!

!

They are not even allowed to *call* them "compact discs" or "CDs", as they intentionally break the standard

so i went through sonys little settlement thing last night

Notice how all the new double-disc jewel cases are embossed with "2DISC" instead of "2CD"

for one album they offered me a digital download

for the other they offered a digital download of the album and a choice of another album

but i cant get any of the downloads untill i .. either send them the cd, a reciept, or cut the UPC symbol off of the cover art

so i have to destroy my lossless media in exchange for lossy mp3s

dipshits

and the selction for the albums was slim

the 'free' albums

GURT: Just get a CD or DVD drive that cleanly reads the corrupted disc.

oh i do now

it's just the principal

The DVD drive in this computer has flawlessly extracted about 3 "Copy Controlled" discs

I don't have any more to try it out with (fortunately)

mine were Dave Matthews Band - Stand Up and My Morning Jacket - Z

Of course, the first thing I did with one of them was to begin distributing it using my PTP. EMI screws me, I screw EMI :)

BGreeNZ: :-D

Seems fair to me...

it's obvious by now, but profits have replaced principals for corporations a long time ago. in this case it's not profit, but minimization of losses that drives sony's policy though

what's PTP? p2p?

maximize profit, minimize loss, whatever you do, interfere with FOSS

Peer to Peer

anyways, one of my professors that teaches our computer ethics course believes in essentially unfettered capitalism, where trade secrets, patents, and copyrights can be used to profit to an unlimited degree

and i constantly attempt to point out that capitalism doesn't work without the rule of law and a sense of social responsibility to society

but nobody cares and i always get ignored