#musicbrainz

-00:00:00- � Info� Day changed to (Sunday, March 16th 2008).

wtf is it really sunday?

still saturday here :)

gf and I are disagreeing about the weather. I still say "dark" is a perfectly good answer to "how's the weather", when it's asked at 8 pm :D

BrianFreud: it's very windy here

It would be awesome if there was some tool to auto-fill from the wiki to a new release.

Copy-and-paste for 34 tracks is tedious and boring.

we won't be in the wiki long, just waiting for works lists. And hitting the wiki that often would crush the wiki server - the CSG lists are rather big pages.

I hope I'm not wasting my time adding these things in right now 'by hand'.

BrianFreud, I don't suppose you're familiar with the Christmas Oratorio, are you?

Ah, never mind.

From the CD box: "The tenor recitative 'Und alsobald war da bei dem Engel' before the chorus 'Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe' is missing from this recording for reasons unknown to us."

Lame.

The final track on this disc contains both Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil III, XXXV. Choral "Seid froh dieweil" and Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil III, XXIV. Coro da capo "Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen". How should I display it?

Erm, input it.

Help me out with this track and I can go to bed. :|

damn, 2 cars on fire outside my window and i can't find my camera

BrianFreud: This is more "How do I cite two consecutive movements on one track" rather than "which is correct".

This is a track, FU 123: (Container:) I. Allegro / II. Andante

creature: usually with a slash.

Awesome, thanks.

whose is the FU catalogue?

LOL

ruaok: Johnny Five is alive! You SO need one of these on your desk: http://www.tuxisalive.com/

mmmmm, Jurassic 5 - Hey

OK, I lied. How do I deal with one section split between two tracks?

I am thinking: 'Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil V, XLVa. Coro "Wo ist der neugeborne König"' and 'Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil V, XLVb. Coro "Wir haben seinen Stern gesehen"

http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~wfb/cantatas/248V.html is the text, section 3.

Though I'm not sure about labelling it a 'Coro', as my notes give it as 'Chor und Rezitativ'.

BrianFreud: I have one of those. I was given one at OSCON, but I never had time to play with it yet. :-(

crawfish tacos, pico ge gallo, guacamole, fresh made tortilla chips -- that's what i'm talkin' 'bout :)

nice. I just came back from a b-day party with real mexican food and corn tortillas that were made seconds ago.

ruaok: this is the joint: http://www.skysgourmettacos.com/

right down the road -- the pico corridor is an ethnic food paradise

Mmm crayfish

yep. i love them. too bad they're seasonal fare.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawfish and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crayfish

Crawfish redirects to Crayfish it seems

But the two articles have different images

lol

you get different version if you're in the south of the US. :)

i grew up calling them crawdads ;)

for the UK its random

some folks call them langostino, but those are slightly different

long read, but for those who love the RIAA as much as I do, this is just sooooo nice a read :) http://www.ilrweb.com/viewILRPDFfull.asp?filena...

BrianFreud: that's going to be interesting to watch -- for sure

I'm halfway through now. The nicest part is, it doesn't depend on any stretches of law or strange interpretations - it's quite simple in reach, and every act it describes is well covered by existing law and decisions

Muzzz: have you tried any of the recipes i've e-mailed you? please let me know if they're too complex

yllona: not been cooking much atm :(

Muzzz: yes, it's been busy for you... so sorry.

yllona: it's more that I've been about the girlfriend a lot and she seems to enjoy cooking and won't let me have a word in it otherwise :P

wow, that's fabulous. a girlfriend who loves cooking :)

She's not half bad at it either

I hardly get through them that quickly

i know, but it hard for me to know without prying or being a busy-body ;)

suffice to say, you have a girlfriend that you really like :)

Wouldn

't be with her otherwise

:)

ruaok: i mentioned while you were out that the fishbone concert was amazing -- complete with an old-skool mosh pit.

somehow, I think this might just actually end up being the wedge that finally kills the RIAA

BrianFreud: i'm not quite that optimistic, but hopeful

nice :-)

When they get into the details as to just what they're claiming was done by MediaSentry, the RIAA, and the labels, it's pretty much the very definition of RICO, Fraud, the Computer Abuse act, and others

it's raining!

has been here off an on.

we've had a couple of patches of nice clear moments:

socal also had snow and hail (!)

yes, we had drizzle earlier - but now it's real rain

and kudos to last.fm on the fishbone video (official and unofficial)

is not logging

is logging

damn

at least they didn't taser you first

twin peaks soundtrack, I was very annoyed of the music when I watched the few first crappy episodes of it..

Anyone knows an app to "compare" two sound files (some sort of spectral analyzer?!) - I'd like to see how a CD-Track distincts from a ripped ogg/mp3

most of the time the higher frequencies are cut using a low-pass filter

doesn't tell you how it sounds, though

I'm wondering if a 1:1 Copy of a CD(well.. it's not the newest anymore, so it has some small scratches[I don't think someone would notice them while hearing]) or if a mp3/ogg to CD copy would make a noticable difference

lossy encoders are quite good, so you probably don't hear the difference CD -> mp3/ogg. Depends on your ears, the audio content and how it's encoded

ogg is better than mp3 , right? (what do you think about FLAC etc. ) [sorry for asking so much :D ]

flac is lossless so no difference to your CDs. I use flac and transcode to mp3/ogg/aac/...

you can use an even lower bitrate with ogg to be still transparent (== you don't hear the difference to the CD)

but flac is much bigger than ogg/mp3, isn't it?

sure. Depends on the source. I got about 500 albums in flac and they take 140 GB

but hard drives are cheap, so that's really nothing compared on how much I spend on CDs

*compared to

that's true, but can you give me an example of the size of a file with different encodings - I don't know a real factor, I'm just thinking "wooh, lossless, must be almost as big as a real CD"

loud rock is about 70 to 80 percent of the CD. So if you got 700 MB audio material or more that's more than 500 MB

my average album in flac is about 350 MB

that's the worst case, though

yeah, my average album is 300 MB

enoded in either ogg vorbis or acc it can be any number below tht depending of quality

and you can choose the format/bitrate for each use case. I have lame -V 5 mp3 files for my car, aac with a higher bitrate for the ipod

can go lower than that and still have the flac files if you're not happy

I see.. hm.. my average album is about ~70MiB(mp3) and ~50MiB(ogg), I'm wondering if it's worth for me to use FLAC I mean in the vs. ogg the filesize is about 6x

[Another related question might be: Am I less able to hear a difference on PC with headphones, than I would with a hifi stereo(or 5.1) system ? )

if you have the disk space and no problem with the additional time used for transcoding to lossy, I'd use flac

Also, with flac you won't have the hassle of reripping if want to change to another lossy format later on?

true. Rip once and never again :)

it'

Once mp3 was king, now it's ogg vorbis or aac or wmv or something else.

it's actually the same for me - since my I've got a mp3/ogg player

hm.. I see your point.. it's future proof