#musicbrainz

maybe my company's firewall? ;)

you can try (from the cpan shell) running: o conf init urllist, and you should have to go through the process of choosing mirrors

firewall/proxy was going to be my next question

how can i exit the current process of it trying to download?

control + c is the most common way

like in inux

tried that

ok worked

trying to fetch some mirrors

if that fails too, then, bahhhh

what are the packages needed? in the readme i got here...URI, JSON, LWP::Simple, JSON::XS

those

but on your github it says more

eh?

LWP::Simple, JSON, JSON::XS, CARP, HTML::Query, File::Temp

where did you see a different list?

in the link from musicbrainz

err

and then click on the last link

and in the readme in there

yes, but that page doesn't say anything specific to beatport

but inthe readme that is in there when i do the ZIP download

it says

# Beatport Parser # ## Requirements ## * Perl >= 5.10 * [URI](http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/URI-1.59/URI.pm) * [LWP::Simple](http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-6.03/lib/LWP/Simple.pm) * [JSON](http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.53/lib/JSON.pm) >= 2.0 (JSON::XS generally recommended, additionally.)

that's the file you're looking at

i should be

but then the link is wrong

if you click on that link from musibrainz as described above

it takes you to this site

then i download the zip

once downloaded I open the README.md it contains

and it says differently

so there is a mismatch ;)

what, no

there is a README in every single sub directory. beatport, bandcamp, and file parsers

and the link on musicbrainz takes you to the single repository for all three, not beatport specifically

check it out

there is also a README in the root of the repository which tells you to look at the specific subdirectory relevant to what you're trying to do

I already did

what you pasted ^^^ is exactly what's already in the repository

then i would say you change the content of the README.md in the root

directory

to what exactly?

if you open it

i can send it to you

:D

I am so confused.

sorry

ok

do me favour

;)

and then click download ZIP

it will have 7 items in that zip

then please open the README.md file

and you will see

question:

after you unzipped, did you get the beatport/bandcamp/file-parsers directories?

nope

then this is your problem

what you should get looks exactly how it's represented on GitHub

you should get a README, and those 3 directories

in those 3 directories will be at least one perl script and another parser specific READMe

i just get one folder zipped

MusicBrainz-Track-Parsers-master

and below 7 files

i am sure i am not the only one ;)

anyway

no, you're not the only one

but whatever your unzipping utility is is terrible

and isn't preserving paths/sub-folders

7zip!

hold on

actually it does

strange

note the indentions indicating hierarchy

ok seems to be the case

is there a way how i can download the packages and install them myself?

i will try to log in over our guestwlan

just a sec

am back

it works!

yeah

one step closer

hooray

well i pressed ctrl + c too early

and it got truncated :D

anyway

i guess now i will download all the necessary packages

and then i should be able to run beatport.pl plus URL?

and where do i get the output?

perl beatport.pl (paste beatport URL)

it's supposed to open your browser, I think

to be honest, on windows, I actually have no idea

oh, hahahaha. it's only going to do magic on Mac OS X. Not Windows, Not Linux. nice one Jason

wow, uhhhh. this is not good

it will pretty much be worthless on Windows and Linux. niceeeeeeeeeeeeee

so all this for nothing? :D

hold on

why worthless? ;)

so it is now fetching the URI

worthless because the HTML file the script generates gets cleaned up when the script exits

and I'm fairly certain "open" will not work on windows (start should, though)

so you will have a 5 second window to open the HTML file, but I have no idea where the temporary files folder is on Windows

ill be your guinea pig

you've come this far. it'd be rude for you not to be

according to your readme.md i dont need URI? :)

uhh

(－‸ლ)

URI is for the bandcamp parser. beatport does not use it, no

haha

easy

of course, the beatport readme doesn't list it either

now got json

where did...

i didnt check the right one initially remember ;)

but on the right track now

what makes the greasemonkey script so difficult?

I don't know Javascript.

haven't bothered to learn. (I really should)

do me a favor. open a new command prompt and run: perl -e 'print $^O;'

does it say MSWin32 ? (note, does it say /exactly/ that, case specific matters)

just a sec

perl -e 'print $^O;'

cant dfind string terminator

uhh

maybe the semicolon afterwards?

no

oh, of course it's special on windows, sigh

perl -e "print $^O;"

that might also error, depending on how windows and variables and $ works

MSWin32

ok, good

urge to install windows in a VM rising

in the meantime i got all the other things install

you want to talk about Yak Shaving though...

ed

i went hiking in the himalya

dont want to shave one of those