#musicbrainz

HAha

The GI Joe dubs are the only decent thing to be branded with "ebaumsworld"

canidae: It's not changing the bitrate, it's just changing the amount of padding - esp at 320 kbps, there's a lot of frames that don't actually fill the frame - remove the padding, rewrite the frames and such, and voila - avg 290 kbps vbr mp3 with a few hundred kb to a few mb saved

on a single cd, it is worthless. On 106 gb of mp3, that's 5 gb saved... :D

BrianFreud: yeah, i read what you said a couple more times and got more sense out if it in the end

what does "multiple release types" mean?

MO TOWN CAT

UP TOWN GIRL

WHITE BREAD WORLD

Not as good as YOUR WOMAN.

gioele: a release would be able to have multiple types instead of only one

Remix + EP for example

I'd really like a "Demo" type by the way

pankkake: I see. Is demo different from promotional?

Well, a lot of groups I listen to release cds as "demos"

and they are added as Other, Official currentl

y

pankkake: I'd say "demo" is more a status than an attribute

could be either though

compilation/Demo or Demo/bootleg

freud brian

yep :)

is it ok if I change the magnatune release country to [worldwide] on all the magnatune albums?

hello there! How can I retrieve the releases from a given artist mbid?

On the website?

on the webservice

Oh, that's over my head, sorry.

no prob

nandovieira: Mm, I thought that was easy..?

Yeah; http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/?artistid=6...

ow

pretty easy

I was trying to retrieve the list from the artist url, not the release url :P

Well, you want releases, ask for them! :)

:)

i'm creating a small app to generate feeds with the releases of all the bands I like

so, as soon as a new release is added, I know that a new album was released

Chocolate rain

The rain falls mainly upon the plains

nandovieira: i wrote a perl script that checks this once a month

cool :)

can you send me?

FauxFaux: is there any way to retrieve the track list in this url? http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/?artistid=6...

Read the docs, nandovieira. :P

(The answer is yes)

i'm reading, but the inc=tracks doesn't seem to be working

This is delicious http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html. You must eat it.

it's also been around since jeezus was a baby

Yet still people haven't read it.

<@fred> 04:53 <@rob0> We have a genuine celebrity in #postfix ... esr_ ... and get this:

<@fred> 04:54 <@rob0> he came in and asked : 03:16 < esr_> Anybody home?

<@fred> 04:54 <@rob0> without asking any real question. Should I send him to the Smart Questions HOWTO? :)

i think fetchmail is a good archetype of how to write a really bad program

I get that impression from most things written in C. :p

(And I'm told /I'm/ defective)

you can write beautiful code in C

fetchmail is just crap

how many security problems during its existence?

maybe i'm a dinosaur, but i find reading good C code to be aesthetically pleasing

anyway, i don't really get why that guy is famous

ojnkpjg part of the reason that esr is so (in)famous is that he's gone completely off the rils in the last few years -- like truly ka-razy.

*off the rails

ojnkpjg: I'm a c++ monkey, I wince when I see someone using a pointer. :p

c++ is painful to read

at least if you start using templates heavily

The definitions of the templates might be, but it clarifies the logic of the code no end.

This isn't really an argument that's worth having, though, as we both know we're right, and that the other person is irreperably damaged and has to die out before software quality increases. :p

he has more guns

:s