#musicbrainz

Anyone know an OSX utility to dump all the metadata about an mp3?

iTunes somehow manages to change the md5 of my mp3,even if I chmod 400 on it and make it readonly :S

albumidentify has some helper scripts if you have python installed

I use mid3v2 from mutagen

I use eyeD3 as well (python too)

thanks, i'll check them out

yeah, and that

I thought about whipping something up with mutagen

ours is written from scratch

which throws up all sorts of weird stuff that other apps out in

put in

mid3v2 shows no changes :(

It's probably just applying replaygain to the audio data.

*twitch*

lame --decode has the glitch in too :'(

WTF is iTunes doing to my music

what process are you doing?

cd->mp3?

Frame# 11/4303 192 kbps MS bitstream problem: resyncing...

Flac -> wav -> wavegain -> lame --scale > picard > iTunes

it's completely fine before iTunes

right

why are you wavegaining?

here's the really weird shit bit. Open it in iTunes before tagging, plays fine. Tag it in picard, and double click in iTunes - plays fine, refreshes metadata

remove it from iTunes and re-add it, pop gets added

tried not adding gain yet?

Wavegain is mainly there because my vinyl always comes out at different volumes due to the normalizing process

or add it with mp3gain instead

wavegain doesn't affect the files

it just gives the --scale value for lame

oh, so it does end up as an mp3gain?

Nope, it directly alters the data that lame encodes

(lame amplifies it internally)

Use with care, since most MP3 decoders will truncate data which decodes to values greater than 32768.

--scale sounds scary

I scale down, not up :)

right

scale is capped to 1.0

and it worked fine for me with the same mp3s

I gave this mp3 to briang and nikki, and neither could reproduce it

it's just my iTunes that fucks it up :/

fun

I don't think I uploaded a broken mp3, here's one : http://www.sendspace.com/file/mjyfwu

I just don't get how iTunes can modify it, when I've done chmod 400 on the file... I thought that meant that nothing could touch it, and only my user could read it?

yet somehow, the md5 still changes :/

weird

awesome

Oh well, dragging files into iTunes doesn't seem to break them (only "add to library" breaks them0

so I guess this is solution enough to get my crap onto my iPod

hmm, I think I dragged them into itunes

double clicking them works too, it's just add to library that seems to fudge them

hmm... add to library doesn't do it either

but then again I'm using 8.whatever, so who knows...

but 8 still has the gapless thingy

which is what I think is the problem

gapless thingy?

gapless playback analysis

when you add to library it spends 2 years freezing itunes saying "analyzing gapless playback information" or something

hmm

you know what. fuck this. dragging them in is now corrupting them too -_-

what's in mbdump-stats.tar.bz2 ?

ah, looks like total number of tracks and stuff like that

stats, basically :P

Any chance of getting an AR (or equivilent) to store when a recording was made? While the bootleg naming convention says you can use a date in the title, not everything uses it

There are lots of albums like: Unknown year for u'The Cure' u"... and Dreams Come True in '92 (disc 2)"

where the year is unambiguous, but there is no fixed metadata stating it

should there be a release event for it?

that would make it clear, but there may not have been a physical release

yeah, I don't think many of these were officially releaed

thus no release date

if an artist is credited as "featured" inside the booklet, but not on the tracklist on the back cover of the CD, is adding "(feat.

)'s" necessary to the track title's necessary?

as opposed to just adding AR's

dinog: I believe not

using ARs/featured artists in ngs is the preferred way

is there a featured artist relationship type in NGS?

yeah, I think so

I am a new user to MusicBrainz, and would like to note that the installer does not include the necessary files to install properly.

The issue spoken of on the forum: http://forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?id=...

is still not resolved.

I hate the evil empire

I had to download the "Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package" in order to get the "MusicBrainz Picard" to launch without error.

Just wanted to let the appropriate people know, was some will get discouraged and merely uninstall the application.

*as some

is there any reason why i shouldnt be able to click on the tagger button on the website and have the album info imported into picard? cos atm tisn't wokring

Ezek1el: did you restart picard perhaps?

did both ff and picard but will try again

Ezek1el: er, no, that's not what I meant :)

by restart picard what did you mean then?

Ezek1el: the green tagger links end in &tport=8000 or something, right?

http://127.0.0.1:8000 etc

right

_if_ you've restarted picard, that '8000' may be wrong. you will have to do another lookup in picard, which will let the server know what port your current picard is using.

Ezek1el: if you can't get it to work, a workaround is to drag the url of a release from your browser to picard.

ah ok, thanks will try that :)

kinda seems like the site it down or very very slow atm

is*

down it is

indeed :(

maybe ngs rollout, though that would seem sorta unlikely, maybe

no, that's still some way off.

ah well, wishful thinking

Uh oh... musicbrainz.org is down?

yes :(

Shall I phone rob?

I don't suppose we can reach djce?

Yea, I can try that first

brb

oh, heh, i just rang anyway :)

I got a free copy of Quaristice today \o/

Apparently the Amazon marketplace guy didn't send a shipping notification in time so I didn't get charged, but it turned up today :P

:)

aCiD2: how did you fix ripping?