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      • notchamunks
        but either way i do have a mix of audio files and regardless of the filetype support it should still scan some of the files from the container
      • luks
        it tries to open only supported files
      • so again "does it list .mp3 as a supported format?"
      • notchamunks
        yup and it doesent find the supported files either
      • No it does not thanks luks
      • luks
        sudo apt-get install libtunepimp5-mp3
      • notchamunks
        so that should give me the mp3 support
      • so if it still doesent scan recursively into the directory's than what?
      • luks
        it should
      • notchamunks
        checking
      • luks
        but generally you should not try to use it on your complete music library
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      • notchamunks
        oh?
      • luks
        add a few albums, tag them, remove them, GOTO 0
      • l8nite
        brianfreud: sorry about the mis-votes
      • brianfreud
        np :)
      • didn't realize you were in here, or I'd have just pinged you about them :)
      • notchamunks
        i suppose that would probably be better im just trying to avoid the tediousness of that whole concept
      • symphonick
        notchamunks, Picard doesn't like bad UTF-8 in files & dirs (if you're using UTF8, of course...)
      • luks
        (if you are not using UTF8 :))
      • bad UTF8 is not UTF8
      • brianfreud
        luks, btw...
      • symphonick
        Eh? What am I trying to say?
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      • notchamunks
        well basically the directory goes /audio/artist/albums/tracks.filetype
      • brianfreud
        I've been doing puid submissions via your script, then double checking for any that get skipped ("No MB ID", etc) by loading into picard and re-scanning, then checking on the ones that don't get a positive puid match from the site.
      • luks sees "puid" and hides
      • Muz
        Pweed
      • brianfreud
        nono, lol
      • nothing to actually do with puids
      • notchamunks
        and im at least trying to select the whole artist to avoid having to go album by album and it wont give me a selection of files
      • brianfreud
        I found that some small number did have puids, had identical tags to the site, yet at 75% puid similarity, they weren't finding matches at MB.
      • notchamunks
        symphonick, i dont think i would have bad utf-8
      • l8nite
        personally, if picard doesn't find something on the first try I just rm -rf it
      • luks
        brianfreud, there is no such thing as puid similarity
      • l8nite
        ;p
      • notchamunks
        symphonick, this library was previously organized by itunes but i have no luck with itunes and this size of a library
      • brianfreud
        Seems that if a file has a decently long name, 50+ characters, and it has a : in the trackname tag, even when there's a puid match, and the tags are identical (as in just tagged from MB), at 75% on puid, they don't match.
      • Had to drop it down to 50% to get it to match up...
      • figured maybe something was funky in your similarity % routine
      • luks
        oh, in picard?
      • brianfreud
        yes
      • 100% identical tag, with puid match, but no match found at 75% (ie, similarity ought to have been calculated to be 100%, was only calculating to 50%)
      • MBChatLogger
        windows == pure evil
      • symphonick
        notchamunks, OK :-) I get those problems from Picard windoze & abcde etc.
      • I know that.
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      • notchamunks
        symphonick, any ideas?
      • luks
        brianfreud, normally I'd ask for the file to try it myself, but I really don't feel well enough to do some picard coding right now (sorry)
      • brianfreud
        np
      • luks
        notchamunks, adding the files one by one works?
      • notchamunks
        luks, if i add the files album by album yes
      • luks
        hm, that's weird
      • brianfreud
        I found it on 50 or so out of 3500 files - every single instance it was if a) tracktitle length was 50+ chars, and b) tracktitle contained : ... and only those cases.
      • luks
        it could be a search server issue
      • brianfreud
        oh?
      • notchamunks
        so basically from /audiolibrary/artists/albums/tracknames.filetype i can add /specificalbum/tracksinalbumfolder
      • brianfreud
        why would dropping similarity in picard down to 50% from 75% get a positive match then?
      • luks
        ah, so it finds a match if you lower it
      • brianfreud
        figured it had something to do with how picard calculates puid similarity
      • yes
      • no match at anything higher than 50% - but at 50%, it suddenly works
      • luks
        if you can ticketit and send me mail with the file and the bug number, I will look at it later
      • brianfreud
        np, running through all my files, so easy to find a few more instances, given a day or so :)
      • notchamunks
        luks, so basically from /audiolibrary/artists/albums/tracknames.filetype i can add /specificalbum/tracksinalbumfolder
      • luks
        notchamunks, sorry, no idea :(
      • brianfreud
        notchamunks, out of curiousity, how are you adding files?
      • notchamunks
        luks, thanks anyways :)
      • brianfreud
        drag and drop, "add folder", etc?
      • luks
        I'd recommend you do try picardqt, but I don't have a gusty repo
      • brianfreud
        oh, 0.7.2 :(
      • GoCatMachine
      • "Chocolate Moose"
      • notchamunks
        brianfreud, the top left file tree panel im selecting the directory and its not scanning at all but it doesent work if i do it pretty much any other way but i could try them one more time jsut to be 100$
      • i mean 100%
      • brianfreud
        sorry, thought you were running picardqt, not picard
      • no idea on oldpicard... been too long since I've used it
      • notchamunks
        is there a .deb for qt?
      • luks
        notchamunks, wait a moment
      • what do you mean by "scanning"?
      • you should be able to just drag&drop the directory
      • without having files in the left lower panel
      • notchamunks
        its not finding the files within the containing directory structure if theres more than one level of directories
      • i didnt mean to get it confused with scanning the tags
      • luks
        still not sure what exactly is "finding the files"
      • you find a directory in the left top panel, right?
      • then you click on it and expect it to list all files in the left bottom panel?
      • notchamunks
        yep
      • luks
        ok, then don't :)
      • notchamunks
        and it doesn't at all
      • lol so your saying its not supposed to than?
      • luks
        just take the directory from the left top panel, and drag it to "New Files ..." or whether it's called in 0.7
      • notchamunks
        Twitch!
      • i tried that so many times
      • and now it works
      • Gah!
      • well thanks
      • and my apologies for my idiocy
      • oooh thanks for the mp3 support tho it would have taken me a bit to catch that
      • luks
        yeah, ubuntu has "no mp3 in main" policy
      • so it's not installed by default
      • notchamunks
        yeah it would be nice if ubuntu would allow an option somewhere in the install to grab those files off the bat kus its slightly inconveniencing having to grab em for every install
      • symphonick
        I hope I did mention I prefer archlinux :-)
      • notchamunks
        im trying to add the key for the picardqt repository
      • luks
        symphonick, oh, you must a masochist...
      • +be
      • (to be fair, I've never tried archlinux, but I'll always make fun of source-only linux distributions)
      • symphonick
        lol ok
      • It's actually binary...
      • notchamunks
        I love my .deb's tho i dont think i would trade them for anything at the moment
      • symphonick
        ...with a very convenient package managing system...
      • MBChatLogger
        windows == pure evil
      • notchamunks
        just kinda really easy to explain to people im switching away from windoze
      • MBChatLogger
        I hate the evil empire
      • MClemo
        what do you think about microsoft, MBChatLogger?
      • notchamunks
        well ill vm it hows that symphonick i just like the whole really saturated network of people in ubuntu
      • hahaha i love that bot
      • symphonick
        +1
      • l8nite
        heh
      • it's very hostile
      • MBChatLogger
        I hate the evil empire
      • l8nite
        It wasn't my choice to work for microsoft :P
      • notchamunks
        it would just be nice if they wouldnt cater to corporations more than their damn customers
      • well vista wise anyways they were doing allright till that os
      • l8nite
        heh, yea -
      • notchamunks
        dont get me wrong if you get a totally hacked to shit vista its actually a really nice system
      • l8nite
        meh, I still <3 my OSX
      • and my linux/freebsd machines <3 too
      • notchamunks
        gutsy is secksi
      • osx would be nice but im not going to buy a mac for it
      • l8nite
        I loaded a livecd of ubuntu the other day on my laptop, was surprised how easy it was
      • luks
        I like that everything just works in ubuntu on common HW
      • l8nite
        loaded my wireless card, etc on first try
      • luks
        installing windows on this laptop would mean shuffling with a lot of various CDs
      • notchamunks
        i do want a macbook pro but ill wait for one to not cost me an arm leg and a kidney
      • symphonick
        ubuntu is a distro that holds your hand ;-)
      • l8nite
        hehe notchamunks
      • macbook pro would be nice
      • DeathWolf has quit
      • I chug along on my imac :)
      • notchamunks
        get those light sensors working so i can look all godlike switching virtual desktops just waving my hands around
      • Muz has quit
      • l8nite, i found a college up the way that sells used macbook pro's for way reduced prices to students and not all of them buy them so i may have to engineer myself a new lappy sometime
      • l8nite
        sounds like a sweet deal
      • notchamunks
        but i think the first thing i would do is drop a ubuntu install on it so i dont have to pirate software kus im broke from buying a macbook pro lol
      • l8nite
        rofl.
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      • notchamunks
        i dont know if any of you have seen virtualbox but that has some nice options even in the free one that people say is more restricted
      • seemless mode is allot like what paralells can do for the mac
      • l8nite
        Yea, I'm using vmware fusion atm