#musicbrainz

Maybe in the office tomorrow after everyone comes to terms with the fact I did dare do it :P

opera to the rescue! moose hair!

erh did I just say /moose/ hair?

I ment muz hair

really

o.O

can't

its' soooo early

but late for you.. hahaha

:P

'lo

mornin'

is it me or has the amount of IRC users in this channel dropped significantly lately?

well, i don't recall many of us talking a lot anyhow ;)

at least during the hours i've been awake

mornin' keschete

hi there

juhae, yeah but the list of users used to be a lot longer

by the way, who was the one developing on last.fm and active on MB again?

muz

mustaqila that is :)

thanks, lets see if he's awake already

he was here a few minutes ago

he might be buzzy one their server problems they appear to have at the moment ;-)

with their latest server update they just stole an idea I had for the future of MB :-(

They've got events now

how did you plant to implement them in mb?

yeah, the future of mb :)

It can't be done at the moment, and it sure shouldn't be implemented before NGS, but it seemed to me to be the next logical step after that

create list of all gigs a band/artist did

specify festivals and whcih bands performed there

specify set lists for each performance or tour

link bootlegs to performances

specify dates and locations of performances

you name it

btw, last.fm isn't reachable atm right?

aye

well, i don't see much development for mb_server.

in this pace, NGS won't happen anytime in the next 3 years i'm afraid.

nightgroove: Bloody... it's snowing here as well right now...

keschte, I know

But then, it *is* the first day o Winter.

but I think it will change at some stage

at least I hope so ;-)

I'm working on a plan to be able to work on MB as a project for uni

this way I can spend the time I should spend on uni working on a project of my interest, which helps the both of us

Prodoc, ?

(I fell asleep again, it's far too early ;))

mornin' mustaqile_

Morning

I'd like to thank you for nothing :-P

Oh :(

with your latest server update you just stole an idea I had for the future of MB ;-)

the events system

nice one though

Hardly stolen, we had this thing coded and written last year at Christmas time :P

how far are you planning on taking it on last.fm?

It just could never be released for various reasons, and it got a lot more love and attention and polished up to speed ;)

Prodoc, errrrm, "very" (?)

Anyone know of a good music playet for Windows that properly handles networks and serveral different music locations?

set lists?

We've a few ideas kicking about concerning them, and they'll come with time

Prodoc, yup that's be considered

*been

maybe last.fm and MB could team up again at a later stage

I'm not going to comment there :P

:-D

(NOt that we don't want to team with MB, we do, and have done in the past)

I'd like to express my concerns about one aspect of last.fm

I've been using AudioScrobbler at an early stage and I'm sorry to admit it but I lost interest in it after they merged with last.fm

I was in it for the stats, nothing more nothing less

I've been 'scrobblin'' ever since but I didn't use the actual website a lot

looked at the user and group stats every now and again but that's it

from the point of the merge till recently, last.fm has made some huge steps if it comes to functionality

on the site

prodoc: if you like the stats that much, download the DB and knock yourself out

hehe

that not the issue, one moment

there's an awesome open source statistical package, BTW

perhaps more powerful package than SASS?SPSS

*SASS/SPSS

I recently started using the last.fm site a bit more but the sudden (to me) increase of features was quite overwhelming

pull the RRS feeds into wahtever page design you want

I can't even imagine how a new user will feel when he get's confornted with it

the problem is that all those things aren't as selfexplanatory as you might think they are

seems that these new-fangled users love that shiny stuff on all sites

IBM even updated the alphaworks site for the 10th anniversary -- it's all shiny too

I think it's important to create an actual help section, documenting the site and it's features instead of just a forum and an faq

help is at the bottom of the page

realize that the october release is not "official" yet -- press releases go out later this week

so it may not quite be finished....

help of what? doesn't it take you to the same page as when you click on the help menu item at the top?

i can't get to the site from the US to Level3 is down (again)

otherwise i'd assist you

can't check it either

i can't get to the BBC either. i've isolated it to level3

But I wasn't able to find anything usefull if it comes to help on certain aspect of the site

cogentco and other peering services to the UK are okay

+s

Prodoc, usablity is an issue of ours which we want to keep in mind, and as such it's something that is to be addressed soon. If you personally don't like the "social" features of the site, you can always just not use them

i can't connect to anything routed through level3 from the US

There're plenty of Greasemonkey mods out there for statsgeeks like you

ok, I'll shut up then

I wanted to address some specifics but it can wait

Bear in mind, I'm not a designer, so I don't get final say, or much say for that matter, on various aspects of the site's aesthetics