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      • matitaccia
        Which script are you referring to?
      • 2010-12-07 34137, 2010

      • matitaccia
        Oh you mean the abitily to support script in general...
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      • matitaccia
        :-(
      • 2010-12-07 34153, 2010

      • matitaccia
        I was already thinking at a magic solution of my stupid issues.
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      • matitaccia
        KRSCuan,
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      • KRSCuan
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      • KRSCuan
        It can do some magic, but you have to craft your spells yourself ;)
      • 2010-12-07 34140, 2010

      • matitaccia
        aye. I'm not that good.
      • 2010-12-07 34155, 2010

      • matitaccia
        Need those mp3 collection ready for christmas...
      • 2010-12-07 34158, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        If you just need to transfer you music on an iPod, you probably won't need any advanced scripting.
      • 2010-12-07 34106, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        I use it mostly to control the file and directory naming, and iTunes destroys most of this when transferring files to an iPod
      • 2010-12-07 34130, 2010

      • matitaccia
        What I'm doing is: digitalize my sister's CDs collection, name it, tag it properly. And yeah put them on an ipod nano. Or whatever she will ever need.
      • 2010-12-07 34142, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Then the main things to watch for would be the way compilations (or generally, releases with multiple artists) are handled.
      • 2010-12-07 34149, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        And maybe multi-disc releases.
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      • matitaccia
        Can you go a little bit more in detail? You could spare me a lot of time, seems you got some experience... :-)
      • 2010-12-07 34101, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Again, it's a matter of preference.
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      • KRSCuan
        I can't really help you with the way iTunes/iPods handle compilations. You'll have to try and find a suitable solution yourself.
      • 2010-12-07 34132, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Or ask someone who actually uses either of them.
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      • matitaccia
        But you think is wrong to use some other software to tag files?
      • 2010-12-07 34135, 2010

      • matitaccia
        Meaning that I should use itunes directly and stop trying around other things?
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      • KRSCuan
        I only tried iTunes once, found it to be terrible (for me) and ditched it immediately. That's why I can't really tell you anything about it.
      • 2010-12-07 34117, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Concerning multi-disc releases, you could check out lukz' Disc Numbers plugin for Picard: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Picard_Plugins
      • 2010-12-07 34152, 2010

      • matitaccia
        Yeah I don't like itunes either...
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      • matitaccia
        ... but if the work I do on other software doesn't work on itunes... I'll have to check that out!
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      • KRSCuan
        You just don't have to bother much with file naming.
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      • KRSCuan
        I have a more or less sophisticated naming string which put audiobooks in different directories then live albums and also handles artists differently in some cases.
      • 2010-12-07 34141, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        All this stuff makes sense when organizing the files on my hard disk, but that distinction is lost on an iPod.
      • 2010-12-07 34102, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        The iPod just (or primarily) uses its internal database.
      • 2010-12-07 34141, 2010

      • matitaccia
        Ok... so I should concentrate on tagging instead of file names.
      • 2010-12-07 34153, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Exactly :)
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      • neothe0ne
        is there an easy way to remove all the ARs in the tracks in a release?
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      • nikki
        deleting the entire release would do it, but I'm guessing that's not really want you want ;)
      • 2010-12-07 34132, 2010

      • nikki
        otherwise not really
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      • neothe0ne
        cuz someone has clearly not listened to The Best Buono!
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      • neothe0ne
        in fan sites / communities, it was well known all the songs were being remastered
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      • neothe0ne
        but someone went and applied "same release" ARs to all of them
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      • nikki
        then the label is naughty
      • 2010-12-07 34124, 2010

      • nikki
        they shouldn't be reusing the same isrcs if they're remastering it
      • 2010-12-07 34100, 2010

      • KRSCuan
        Really? It's still the same _recording_ after all?
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      • nikki
        the isrc people use the same definition as we're using for ngs
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      • nikki
        if the audio is different, it should have a new isrc
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      • KRSCuan
        But labels don't follow the rules concerning ISRCs consistently anyway…
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      • nikki
        which makes them naughty :P
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      • neothe0ne
        well "later release" is supposed to be identical audio
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      • neothe0ne
        and it's not
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      • neothe0ne
        so it should be "Later version"
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      • neothe0ne
        oh
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      • neothe0ne
        when was a
      • 2010-12-07 34120, 2010

      • neothe0ne
        remaster track AR added
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      • nikki
        a long time ago :P
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      • neothe0ne
        i never knew it
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      • nikki
        I can change those relationships though, since I added them
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      • nikki was looking at the cover to see if it said anything, but nooo...
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      • neothe0ne
        that'd be nice
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      • neothe0ne
        well, the official site mentions it http://buono-net.com/discography.html
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      • KRSCuan speculates whether his database professor might be interested in the way NGS is organized
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      • nikki
        there
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      • nikki curses at the relationship directions being all mixed up and the page not providing any track disambiguation
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      • neothe0ne
        yeah
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      • neothe0ne
        that's always annoyed me.
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      • neothe0ne
        versoin/release go against remix/karaoke
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      • neothe0ne
        or something or other
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      • nikki nods
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      • nikki
        luks was planning to fix that