#musicbrainz

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      • stoned
        Well. Time to do a dab w/ some Animals as Leaders.
      • 2013-05-25 14534, 2013

      • stoned
        \m/
      • 2013-05-25 14548, 2013

      • stoned
      • 2013-05-25 14521, 2013

      • stoned
        I have read tutorials and docs and I've done what I think was proper to do
      • 2013-05-25 14540, 2013

      • stoned
        But a lot of the underground technical death metal bands I have it knows nothing about them
      • 2013-05-25 14542, 2013

      • stoned
        which is fine
      • 2013-05-25 14556, 2013

      • stoned
        ok step 1, cluster
      • 2013-05-25 14510, 2013

      • stoned
        http://i.imgur.com/rverV8q.png <- clustered shot of left pane
      • 2013-05-25 14530, 2013

      • stoned
        Now I click cd look up or scan?
      • 2013-05-25 14533, 2013

      • stoned
        Which one shall I try?
      • 2013-05-25 14536, 2013

      • stoned
        reosarevok, ^
      • 2013-05-25 14512, 2013

      • reosarevok
        For that stuff, which seems to be reasonably tagged, selecting it and clicking lookup
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      • reosarevok
        (the normal one, not the CD one)
      • 2013-05-25 14521, 2013

      • reosarevok
        should work fineish
      • 2013-05-25 14524, 2013

      • stoned
        uh
      • 2013-05-25 14528, 2013

      • stoned
        I only see 1 button
      • 2013-05-25 14531, 2013

      • stoned
        cd lookup
      • 2013-05-25 14536, 2013

      • reosarevok
        There's a lookup button
      • 2013-05-25 14537, 2013

      • stoned
        view the shot
      • 2013-05-25 14541, 2013

      • reosarevok
        But you need to select something to use it
      • 2013-05-25 14542, 2013

      • stoned
        it's grayed out
      • 2013-05-25 14544, 2013

      • stoned
        oh
      • 2013-05-25 14551, 2013

      • stoned
        ok, regular look up
      • 2013-05-25 14556, 2013

      • stoned
        betwen cluster and scan?
      • 2013-05-25 14504, 2013

      • reosarevok
        yes
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

      • stoned
        ok thanks, doing now
      • 2013-05-25 14522, 2013

      • stoned
        instead of clicking each item naually
      • 2013-05-25 14534, 2013

      • stoned
        I will click the parent tree node, "Cluster" which contians all them
      • 2013-05-25 14537, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Well, I generally ctrl+a to select all and then lookup
      • 2013-05-25 14541, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Or yeah, that I guess
      • 2013-05-25 14546, 2013

      • stoned
        click look up now
      • 2013-05-25 14547, 2013

      • stoned
        it's doign things
      • 2013-05-25 14555, 2013

      • stoned
        I haven't even passed my Djent directory into ti
      • 2013-05-25 14504, 2013

      • stoned
        100+ bands and even more cds
      • 2013-05-25 14514, 2013

      • stoned
        And I doubt picard knows of em
      • 2013-05-25 14538, 2013

      • stoned
        Then I have over 2000 vynels to try and digitally backup
      • 2013-05-25 14543, 2013

      • stoned
        and over 700 cds
      • 2013-05-25 14555, 2013

      • reosarevok
        well, yeah, it won't do miracles :)
      • 2013-05-25 14557, 2013

      • stoned
        And you don't even know the amounts of cassette tapes I have to backup
      • 2013-05-25 14507, 2013

      • stoned
        I have like trunks full.
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

      • stoned
        literally, trunks full.
      • 2013-05-25 14528, 2013

      • reosarevok
        If you have lots of obscure stuff, it's likely nobody will have added some of it yet
      • 2013-05-25 14530, 2013

      • stoned
        I need to also buy a good cassette tape to ogg converter
      • 2013-05-25 14536, 2013

      • stoned
        it's alright man
      • 2013-05-25 14541, 2013

      • stoned
        if I'm the one who has it, i'll ad it
      • 2013-05-25 14543, 2013

      • stoned
        :)
      • 2013-05-25 14557, 2013

      • stoned
        I'm thinking
      • 2013-05-25 14557, 2013

      • reosarevok
        But yeah, stuff like Rihanna vs. Madonna just shouldn't be happening, so maybe somebody just sent the wrong fingerprinting data by mistake
      • 2013-05-25 14519, 2013

      • stoned
        cassette stereo into line-in soundcard and a recording software?
      • 2013-05-25 14532, 2013

      • stoned
        or are there better quality converters from tape to digital format
      • 2013-05-25 14538, 2013

      • stoned
        where would I ask about that
      • 2013-05-25 14550, 2013

      • stoned
        And same for vinyl records
      • 2013-05-25 14555, 2013

      • reosarevok has no idea about that stuff - maybe somebody here knows more :)
      • 2013-05-25 14558, 2013

      • stoned
        ah
      • 2013-05-25 14505, 2013

      • stoned
        well, friend opened up a used record store
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

      • stoned
        primarly vinyl
      • 2013-05-25 14516, 2013

      • stoned
        I'm donating him 2000 records
      • 2013-05-25 14535, 2013

      • stoned
        but I want to back them up first (not full donation, I'll see 50% compensation for him to sell my used records)
      • 2013-05-25 14517, 2013

      • stoned
        I'm trying to get rid of physical and convert to digital and store multiple redundant backups of my digital data.
      • 2013-05-25 14530, 2013

      • stoned
        And a copy of that data and a way to read it locked in a safe box.
      • 2013-05-25 14539, 2013

      • stoned
        <- ultimate stoner paranoid sob
      • 2013-05-25 14513, 2013

      • stoned
        ok it's done looking reosarevok
      • 2013-05-25 14520, 2013

      • stoned
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      • reosarevok
        So, apparently it found matches for everything else. Of course, those aren't *always* correct, so before clicking save on an album, it's always good to check if it looks good
      • 2013-05-25 14501, 2013

      • stoned
        why doesn't it show the file path
      • 2013-05-25 14505, 2013

      • stoned
        or right click , go to folder
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

      • stoned
        O_o
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

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      • stoned
        now i have to manually browse to that folder on disk
      • 2013-05-25 14525, 2013

      • stoned
        *sigh*
      • 2013-05-25 14500, 2013

      • stoned
        and it couldn't fucking find White Zombie? Astro Creep?
      • 2013-05-25 14501, 2013

      • stoned
        REALLY?!
      • 2013-05-25 14507, 2013

      • stoned
        Wow.
      • 2013-05-25 14533, 2013

      • reosarevok
        heh
      • 2013-05-25 14539, 2013

      • stoned
        Uhm. I'm not medicated enough yet. I'm sorry, I'm losing patience again. I'll be back in a bit, yeah?
      • 2013-05-25 14543, 2013

      • reosarevok
        It's probably because in MusicBrainz the title is "Astro-Creep: 2000: Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head"
      • 2013-05-25 14553, 2013

      • reosarevok
        And it didnt' match closely enough
      • 2013-05-25 14502, 2013

      • stoned
        Well, that title is kinda wrong.
      • 2013-05-25 14522, 2013

      • stoned
        I'm pretty sure that's the title of the remix cd
      • 2013-05-25 14529, 2013

      • reosarevok
      • 2013-05-25 14530, 2013

      • stoned
        like first album was la sexorcisto
      • 2013-05-25 14550, 2013

      • joshk
        musicbrainz is a place where extreme amounts of attention are paid to correct titles :)
      • 2013-05-25 14557, 2013

      • stoned
        I see
      • 2013-05-25 14511, 2013

      • stoned
        so out of all that, it couldn't match "astro creep "
      • 2013-05-25 14512, 2013

      • stoned
        ?
      • 2013-05-25 14516, 2013

      • stoned
        and White Zombie
      • 2013-05-25 14521, 2013

      • stoned
        that's not very intelligent.
      • 2013-05-25 14500, 2013

      • stoned
        welp, any way kind gents
      • 2013-05-25 14514, 2013

      • stoned
        What shall I do now for the albums it has not found via lookup?
      • 2013-05-25 14521, 2013

      • reosarevok
        You can try to scan them
      • 2013-05-25 14529, 2013

      • joshk
        you can also just look it up on a musicbrainz search
      • 2013-05-25 14534, 2013

      • joshk
        then click the 'TAGGER' button
      • 2013-05-25 14534, 2013

      • reosarevok
        That too :)
      • 2013-05-25 14538, 2013

      • stoned
        no matches
      • 2013-05-25 14542, 2013

      • joshk
        uh
      • 2013-05-25 14553, 2013

      • reosarevok
        he means the Lookup in Browser button
      • 2013-05-25 14500, 2013

      • stoned
        Self Collapse (canadia death metal)
      • 2013-05-25 14508, 2013

      • stoned
        album, the affliction
      • 2013-05-25 14510, 2013

      • reosarevok
        But I mean, I'd probably start by checking that right pane, and save and remove the ones that look fine
      • 2013-05-25 14513, 2013

      • stoned
        nothing
      • 2013-05-25 14520, 2013

      • stoned
        what to do then fo rthis, for exaple/
      • 2013-05-25 14521, 2013

      • stoned
        manual tag?
      • 2013-05-25 14523, 2013

      • joshk
        then you've found something MB doesn't have
      • 2013-05-25 14535, 2013

      • joshk
        you can tag it yourself, or register for an account and add it yourself
      • 2013-05-25 14523, 2013

      • stoned
        I want thigns that can get looked up or scanned to get auto tagged and move into J:\Music\artist\album\songs
      • 2013-05-25 14514, 2013

      • stoned
        Any idea how to accomplish this?
      • 2013-05-25 14533, 2013

      • stoned
        it finds a bunch on scan
      • 2013-05-25 14536, 2013

      • stoned
        let's see what else is left
      • 2013-05-25 14524, 2013

      • stoned
      • 2013-05-25 14536, 2013

      • stoned
        btw
      • 2013-05-25 14547, 2013

      • stoned
        a few of those are corret, how to move those to the right pane?
      • 2013-05-25 14525, 2013

      • stoned
        http://i.imgur.com/Le9CeXl.png why can't i edit this ?
      • 2013-05-25 14518, 2013

      • reosarevok
        what can't you edit?
      • 2013-05-25 14529, 2013

      • stoned
        the variables tor enaming
      • 2013-05-25 14531, 2013

      • stoned
        for
      • 2013-05-25 14533, 2013

      • stoned
        and moving
      • 2013-05-25 14541, 2013

      • stoned
        I want them to move to J:\Music\artist\album\songs
      • 2013-05-25 14550, 2013

      • stoned
        im trying to figure out how to do that
      • 2013-05-25 14551, 2013

      • reosarevok
        You should be able to just click "Browse"
      • 2013-05-25 14555, 2013

      • reosarevok
        And select the right directory
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      • stoned
        i don't understand
      • 2013-05-25 14552, 2013

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      • stoned
        please help
      • 2013-05-25 14520, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Where it says "Move files to this directory" in that screenshot
      • 2013-05-25 14523, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Just press Browse
      • 2013-05-25 14542, 2013

      • stoned
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      • stoned
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      • stoned
        but how will it name them
      • 2013-05-25 14555, 2013

      • stoned
        is it hardcoded?
      • 2013-05-25 14559, 2013

      • stoned
        I can't edit how to name files?
      • 2013-05-25 14501, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Well, first you want to move them to the right place
      • 2013-05-25 14512, 2013

      • stoned
        then rename?
      • 2013-05-25 14513, 2013

      • stoned
        gotcha
      • 2013-05-25 14517, 2013

      • reosarevok
        I mean
      • 2013-05-25 14517, 2013

      • stoned
        how?
      • 2013-05-25 14526, 2013

      • reosarevok
        first you want to edit the place you want them moved to
      • 2013-05-25 14538, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Then you can change stuff in the "Name files like this" bit
      • 2013-05-25 14543, 2013

      • stoned
        i can't change that
      • 2013-05-25 14551, 2013

      • stoned
        that's what i been trying to ask you man
      • 2013-05-25 14502, 2013

      • stoned
        I can't seem to edit the variables in how to name it
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      • reosarevok shrugs - I use the defaults
      • 2013-05-25 14527, 2013

      • reosarevok
        So I haven't touched that bit much
      • 2013-05-25 14533, 2013

      • stoned
        I don't like the defaults
      • 2013-05-25 14534, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Anyone around who knows more about that part? :)
      • 2013-05-25 14546, 2013

      • stoned
        i dont' wantJ:\music\blah_blah_blah
      • 2013-05-25 14554, 2013

      • stoned
        that's what the default is
      • 2013-05-25 14523, 2013

      • stoned
      • 2013-05-25 14532, 2013

      • stoned
        this is really not my day today
      • 2013-05-25 14554, 2013

      • reosarevok
        Well, that you change clicking Browse by that line
      • 2013-05-25 14500, 2013

      • reosarevok
        And then going to the folder you want the stuff in