#musicbrainz

but either way i do have a mix of audio files and regardless of the filetype support it should still scan some of the files from the container

it tries to open only supported files

so again "does it list .mp3 as a supported format?"

yup and it doesent find the supported files either

No it does not thanks luks

so that should give me the mp3 support

so if it still doesent scan recursively into the directory's than what?

it should

checking

but generally you should not try to use it on your complete music library

oh?

add a few albums, tag them, remove them, GOTO 0

brianfreud: sorry about the mis-votes

np :)

didn't realize you were in here, or I'd have just pinged you about them :)

i suppose that would probably be better im just trying to avoid the tediousness of that whole concept

notchamunks, Picard doesn't like bad UTF-8 in files & dirs (if you're using UTF8, of course...)

(if you are not using UTF8 :))

bad UTF8 is not UTF8

luks, btw...

Eh? What am I trying to say?

well basically the directory goes /audio/artist/albums/tracks.filetype

I've been doing puid submissions via your script, then double checking for any that get skipped ("No MB ID", etc) by loading into picard and re-scanning, then checking on the ones that don't get a positive puid match from the site.

Pweed

nono, lol

nothing to actually do with puids

and im at least trying to select the whole artist to avoid having to go album by album and it wont give me a selection of files

I found that some small number did have puids, had identical tags to the site, yet at 75% puid similarity, they weren't finding matches at MB.

symphonick, i dont think i would have bad utf-8

personally, if picard doesn't find something on the first try I just rm -rf it

brianfreud, there is no such thing as puid similarity

;p

symphonick, this library was previously organized by itunes but i have no luck with itunes and this size of a library

Seems that if a file has a decently long name, 50+ characters, and it has a : in the trackname tag, even when there's a puid match, and the tags are identical (as in just tagged from MB), at 75% on puid, they don't match.

Had to drop it down to 50% to get it to match up...

figured maybe something was funky in your similarity % routine

oh, in picard?

yes

100% identical tag, with puid match, but no match found at 75% (ie, similarity ought to have been calculated to be 100%, was only calculating to 50%)

windows == pure evil

notchamunks, OK :-) I get those problems from Picard windoze & abcde etc.

I know that.

symphonick, any ideas?

brianfreud, normally I'd ask for the file to try it myself, but I really don't feel well enough to do some picard coding right now (sorry)

np

notchamunks, adding the files one by one works?

luks, if i add the files album by album yes

hm, that's weird

I found it on 50 or so out of 3500 files - every single instance it was if a) tracktitle length was 50+ chars, and b) tracktitle contained : ... and only those cases.

it could be a search server issue

oh?

so basically from /audiolibrary/artists/albums/tracknames.filetype i can add /specificalbum/tracksinalbumfolder

why would dropping similarity in picard down to 50% from 75% get a positive match then?

ah, so it finds a match if you lower it

figured it had something to do with how picard calculates puid similarity

yes

no match at anything higher than 50% - but at 50%, it suddenly works

if you can ticketit and send me mail with the file and the bug number, I will look at it later

np, running through all my files, so easy to find a few more instances, given a day or so :)

luks, so basically from /audiolibrary/artists/albums/tracknames.filetype i can add /specificalbum/tracksinalbumfolder

notchamunks, sorry, no idea :(

notchamunks, out of curiousity, how are you adding files?

luks, thanks anyways :)

drag and drop, "add folder", etc?

I'd recommend you do try picardqt, but I don't have a gusty repo

oh, 0.7.2 :(

hey muz! http://www.gopetslive.com/en/mall/item_detail.h...

"Chocolate Moose"

brianfreud, the top left file tree panel im selecting the directory and its not scanning at all but it doesent work if i do it pretty much any other way but i could try them one more time jsut to be 100$

i mean 100%

sorry, thought you were running picardqt, not picard

no idea on oldpicard... been too long since I've used it

is there a .deb for qt?

notchamunks, wait a moment

what do you mean by "scanning"?

you should be able to just drag&drop the directory

without having files in the left lower panel

its not finding the files within the containing directory structure if theres more than one level of directories

i didnt mean to get it confused with scanning the tags

still not sure what exactly is "finding the files"

you find a directory in the left top panel, right?

then you click on it and expect it to list all files in the left bottom panel?

yep

ok, then don't :)

and it doesn't at all

lol so your saying its not supposed to than?

just take the directory from the left top panel, and drag it to "New Files ..." or whether it's called in 0.7

Twitch!

i tried that so many times

and now it works

Gah!

well thanks

and my apologies for my idiocy

oooh thanks for the mp3 support tho it would have taken me a bit to catch that

yeah, ubuntu has "no mp3 in main" policy

so it's not installed by default

yeah it would be nice if ubuntu would allow an option somewhere in the install to grab those files off the bat kus its slightly inconveniencing having to grab em for every install

I hope I did mention I prefer archlinux :-)

im trying to add the key for the picardqt repository

symphonick, oh, you must a masochist...

+be

(to be fair, I've never tried archlinux, but I'll always make fun of source-only linux distributions)

lol ok

It's actually binary...

I love my .deb's tho i dont think i would trade them for anything at the moment

...with a very convenient package managing system...

windows == pure evil

just kinda really easy to explain to people im switching away from windoze

I hate the evil empire

what do you think about microsoft, MBChatLogger?

well ill vm it hows that symphonick i just like the whole really saturated network of people in ubuntu

hahaha i love that bot

+1

heh

it's very hostile

I hate the evil empire

It wasn't my choice to work for microsoft :P

it would just be nice if they wouldnt cater to corporations more than their damn customers

well vista wise anyways they were doing allright till that os

heh, yea -

dont get me wrong if you get a totally hacked to shit vista its actually a really nice system

meh, I still <3 my OSX

and my linux/freebsd machines <3 too

gutsy is secksi

osx would be nice but im not going to buy a mac for it

I loaded a livecd of ubuntu the other day on my laptop, was surprised how easy it was

I like that everything just works in ubuntu on common HW

loaded my wireless card, etc on first try

installing windows on this laptop would mean shuffling with a lot of various CDs

i do want a macbook pro but ill wait for one to not cost me an arm leg and a kidney

ubuntu is a distro that holds your hand ;-)

hehe notchamunks

macbook pro would be nice

I chug along on my imac :)

get those light sensors working so i can look all godlike switching virtual desktops just waving my hands around

l8nite, i found a college up the way that sells used macbook pro's for way reduced prices to students and not all of them buy them so i may have to engineer myself a new lappy sometime

sounds like a sweet deal

but i think the first thing i would do is drop a ubuntu install on it so i dont have to pirate software kus im broke from buying a macbook pro lol

rofl.

i dont know if any of you have seen virtualbox but that has some nice options even in the free one that people say is more restricted

seemless mode is allot like what paralells can do for the mac

Yea, I'm using vmware fusion atm