seems as good a target as any, since the artist atribution on the track is [traditional], rather than any one artist
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BrianFreud
Jugdish: only thing that would seem to make it possibly a better target would be a generic release as well as the generic artists
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BrianFreud
argh, server slowing way down again
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nofeardjb
How do i clear out Picard's database? It crashed badly and won't get Cd info from the online databases anymore
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BrianFreud
how do you mean "clear out"
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BrianFreud
it goes to empty when you exit the prog
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nofeardjb
when i load it up, there are five entries under "albums" that say "[loading album information]" but nothing happens.. and when i add more music, they never get info from the internet
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BrianFreud
the server's been having trouble lately, it's nothing on your end
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nofeardjb
hmm
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BrianFreud
ruoak's been trying to fix it for 2 weeks or so now
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nofeardjb
/sigh i thought it was me
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BrianFreud
unfortunately, no
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BrianFreud
though, one thing you might want to do
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nofeardjb
yes?
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BrianFreud
you using windows?
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nofeardjb
no
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nofeardjb
linux ubuntu
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BrianFreud
ok, I don't know where picard stores it under linux,
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nofeardjb
hehe
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nofeardjb
what were you going to suggest anyway? just curious
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BrianFreud
but esp when picardqt's having issues contacting the server, the log file get filled to hell
lol, never get me off winamp... been using it since alpha1 :P
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BrianFreud
back when it was either use your computer, or play music, but not both :P
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BrianFreud
anyone remember ampmp3?
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nofeardjb
hey brain
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nofeardjb
picard finally started working again ;-)
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Jugdish
brain?
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BrianFreud
:)
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BrianFreud
lol, I get that typo all the time, used to it
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Jugdish
:P
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BrianFreud
used to play an online game called pyroto... got that typo so often I ended up changing my nice to Brain Food
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*/nick
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BrianFreud
Anyone here an expert on entering Musicals into MB?
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ajh
there's no reason at all to have unsorted files in a dir structure is there? all in one would just load faster anyway right?
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ajh
other than name conflicts I suppose.
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BrianFreud
I use TheGodfather to take advantage of what tags do exist, so I can try to ID them later
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BrianFreud
easier than all in one dir
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ajh
Yeah, I'm thinking about those left-over once I've already identified most of them.
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BrianFreud
that's the ones I mean
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ajh
wish changing configs was easier...
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BrianFreud
I have around 10k of them
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ajh
heh, 99% of mine are off original discs.
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BrianFreud
but the more I can take advantage of what I *do* know about them, the easier they are to add in to the db and manually get tagged
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ajh
yeah, but I mostly want to be able to easily remove dupes etc.
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ajh
which this doesn't really facilitate
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BrianFreud
see, I find it does, for the ID'd ones - load all into QT, save elsewhere, delete what remains, move em all back
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ajh
Well that's what I'm doing, but not all the 'what remains' is junk.
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ajh
I'm moving all complete albums into their own tree.
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BrianFreud
oh, sorry, I left out a step
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BrianFreud
ID all I can into one dir,
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BrianFreud
then re-run all those to a different dir,
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BrianFreud
delete the interim dir
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ajh
Well, yeah that's the plan... just lots of config changing :)
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BrianFreud
and manually add/ID the leftovers in the original dir
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BrianFreud
yup
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BrianFreud
lol
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ajh
that's why we need persistent target directory trees on the album side. :)
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BrianFreud
why?
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BrianFreud
well, I guess in other OSes it'd help, but in windows, I just drag from the explorer side
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ajh
Then you could setup different 'libraries' on the right, and setup different naming structures etc for them.
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BrianFreud
I'm glad there isn't a persistant tree, it'd just get in my way
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ajh
that and the not having to reload all the time.
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ajh
well, you have the big ones collapseable.
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BrianFreud wouldn't want Picard to load all 100k tracks in RAM each and every time
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ajh
Still wish I could generate a list of which discs to re-rip
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ajh
somehow so many i know I have complete discs of have tracks missing.
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BrianFreud
the way I do it, after I run that entire earlier process,
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BrianFreud
I then hand select each which is 17/17 complete, and save them elsewhere
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BrianFreud
anything left, I know is missing a track somewhere
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BrianFreud
long and annoying process, but worthwhile in the long run
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ajh
yeah, that's what i'm doing but I'm saying that the UI needs to do better... it's the 21st century, norton commander is 20 years old now, time for looking at the semantic web. )
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BrianFreud
well, just keep in mind, right now luks' still working on stability and other issues
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BrianFreud
the QT ui is a MASSIVE improvement over the prior UI
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ajh
Yes, it's more a different way of viewing data, and I wouldn't place the whole task like this on one person anyway.
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BrianFreud
lol, welcome to MB :P
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BrianFreud
if you know how to program, I'm sure he'd appreciate your contribution :)
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BrianFreud
wish I could - my programming's only good enough to be able to figure out what is causing bugs, rather than just reporting em
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ajh
Yeah, you really don't want me writing code, lousy with syntax... fine with design and debugging/troubleshooting though :)
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ajh
You'd be amazed at how many things I pestered into gnome :)
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ajh
the more I think about it though the more exporting a list of incomplete rips would help me, I could probably re-rip with less hassle than doing all this.
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ajh
but like the operation I'm doing now, with the current UI I estimate 6-7 hours to finish, if it sorted based on completeness, 2 minutes and an hour of waiting.
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ajh
and considering the current demands on my time, it's a fairly critical thing.
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BrianFreud
well, do you know python?
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BrianFreud
what you could do is write a python plugin to export data as you go, then give you a report
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BrianFreud
aCiD2 is planning to write a util to plug into to QT to do that and a whole lot more
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ajh
not well enough to do that... I mostly look for where the crash is happening with things :)
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ajh
but the more work I put into this, the more I think I just want to go buy a nice quad-G5 and re-rip everything to FLAC.
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BrianFreud
exactly the same as me - I can say WHY it happens... I just can't fix it
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BrianFreud
lol
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BrianFreud
this way's cheaper :P
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ajh
For you perhaps.
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ajh
It's taken almost a week of time so far, that could have paid for a G5.
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ajh
but then, I'm doing it to learn where things sit with taggers etc anyway.
