#musicbrainz

aCiD2: lolque?

balls, what's the unix command to check filesize?

Average bitrate of my 15 weeks of mp3 files is 173 kbps, apparnetly. (Foobar somuchheart).

du

ta

and df for filesystem, ya?

Indeed

44G music then, according to du

i have 399 GB here.

It's all 128kbps CBR or higher though

Muzz: you won't want to hear this but WMP11 manages my 210GB MP3 library as fast as if it was only 10 albums.

"MP3 CBR (87.8%); MP3 VBR V2 (4.8%); MP3 VBR (4.5%); MP3 (1.7%); MP3 VBR V4 (0.4%); MP3 VBR V0 (0.3%); MP3 VBR V1 (0.2%); MP1 CBR (0.1%); MP3 ABR (0.1%);" heh.

5476 ogg/mp3s according to find | wc -l too

and itunes is still working well

So so much that needs tagging that I'm not even going to introduce it to my library until it's tagged immaculately

Since I bought my new machine, foobar default search is fast enough for find as you type again. \o/

FauxFaux: that's the one thing about foobar I'm missing atm, heh

Kerensky97: admittedly I've never tried WMP11 for library management, I got too pissed off at WMP10

Muzzz: how can you live with untagged/un-MBIDed files?

They sit on a seperate partitiion :)

It doesn't go into my Music folder until it's tagged and whathaveyou

Filenames need to be correct too

do you listen to them?

The majority of them yeah

that's the problem I had, I never listened to untagged files

Untagged files aren't listened to yet though

now I have it all tagged and just add new albums as they come in

uhh... can xterm be made to display unicode without blowing up?

Yes, can't remember the command though off the top of myhead

echo -ne '\e%G\e[?47h\e%G\e[?47l'

uhh, what?

does foobar do track/album ratings?

cooperaa: with foo_rating, yes

cool

Mine doesn't because I don't use them :D

aCiD2: Put that in your ~/.$SHELL_profile file, it tells the terminal to go into utf-8 mode (ie. when you're using default putty over ssh etc.)

once you get the majority of your good stuff rated... it's just a matter of setting up a good playlists

I should use ratings, but I'd be able to do album ratings just by typing in the names of about three serieses of cds (bet Muzzz can guess them) and giving them five star, and everything else 1. :P

FauxFaux: an echo can enable unicode?

FauxFaux: heh

neat :)

cooperaa: Foobar can be severely extended with plugins. It can be slimmer than Kate Moss and Twiggy's lovechild or more obese than Rush Limbaugh's rhetorics

aCiD2: It's a telnet (or, at least, the same family) thing, iirc.

woah!

petros: hahaha

petros: that's the problem I had with foobar... a lot of work to find out what you need

ruaok: you sound surprised?

Life's one big surprise for rob :)

that comment was directed at petros ' comment.

cooperaa: thing is, it's much like winamp, except it doesn't ship with a tonne of useless shit that you don't use/need by default

cooperaa: fair point. It found the component page and links to be easy enough to get a good overview of what I might like. And the config seemed pretty easy.

FauxFaux: did that, and then source'd it - ncmp still won't display accented e's and a's though :(

"Error: Unable to convert characters to ANSI_X3.4-1968" from ncmpc, so maybe that's the problem

ruaok: Heh. I tend to use examples like those. Gets the point across ;)

works for me.

petros: foobar looks very nice (in many user's screenshots) but I could never get mine to that point... doesn't really matter now though. I listen to my iPod for almost 8 hours a day so it's slick integration with iTunes is what's most important right now

(and that's one reason why I quit using Amarok... very buggy iPod integration/transcoding)

ok, beddy time, natta!

natta aCiD2

looks like its bet time for the UK wankers

*bed

anyone know if you're charged long distance for receiving a long distance call?

(on a cell phone)

halfway across the country no?

cooperaa: no typically.

but here in the US you get charged airtime for receving a call.

not so in europe.

so if I have unlimited nights/weekends, my parents can call me long distance and I wouldn't get any changes?

charges*

yep.

sweet

if you have unlimited long distance, you should call them,.

save them money.

I hoped so... but would've been quite pissed if they called and I got charged for it

only have unlimited long distance between my account's phones

hmmm... what instrument should I use for this? "Horn (cor)"

cornet, cornett, horn?

or French horn... sheesh

holy freaking wikiediting panda! lol

yeah, and he generated an email for every edit so it seems. :)

wow

A small price to pay, surely

Heh.

how so?

SoAndSo performed Piano on [selected tracks]

SoAndSo additionally composed [selected tracks]

(feat.)

lol, sounds actually rather like what I’ve been trying to figure out all day

like a text box to type them out

I'd like that, with IntelliSense too

So it drops down menus when you start typinh each part of the sentence

but it could be just like the "Relate to..." lookup we have

once you type in a name and then enter an AR word like performed/composed/produced/etc

ok, for the geniuses like FauxFaux, a challenge. I still cannot figure out how to take this input and make it into a nice, useful array

it would put the lookup below the name

Yeah

Just combine that with the ability to do it for a whole sentence instead of the last part ;)

same XML has both; the top is ARs+names, mixed, plus tracks-all-together. the bottom is separate in the xml, track by itself, roles, name. http://musicbrainz.pastebin.com/d124189ba

brianfreud: I prefer "Genuis Sir FauxFaux".

Ow!

lol

brianfreud: That xml to an array (or map?)? JS?

best case, I would like to end up with arrayPerson[name][role, track]

yes, need to transform both halves into an array in js

(a separate array of just array[roles] would be useful too...)

lol

I can handle the code end, but the logic of how to parse it I’m blocking on

In theory, it'd be painfully simple with any xml parser.

well, yes, to just feed each of the three into an array. But not to split the <tracks>1 to 5, 8, 11</tracks> into <track>1</track><track>2</track> etc and still keep the values...

nor the multiple roles within the same <role>foo, foo, foo</role>

Surely those are just .split(", "), or whatever js calls it?

yes, I can split on the commas, and check for “1 to 10” and transform that,

but how to actually combine together into some reasonable array?

At some point, I will need the user to ID what AR each unknown role is talking about, and to match each artist to an MB artist.

I’d like them to only have to do that once for each role and artist

ok

I'm stupidly tired despite having got up about eight hours ago, too. /me -> get some food.

parse in [person, role, track] over and over. That’s easy. But then how to combine it together, so that instead of, say, Tori Amos having 29 entries in the array, I can index them all to one Tori Amos.

goddammit!

Trying to do kind of a bubble-combine *shrug*

I'm going to need some Yes votes to clean up some ARs I added to the wrong tracks... :(

You mean, you want a map of, say, your_variable["Tori Amos"] = an Array(thing1, thing2)? JS can do that.

how?