#musicbrainz

navap_ is now known as navap

would anyone be able to tell me which db dump, if any, contains the folksonomy tag information (tag, tag_relation, etc)?

toddmcneal: one sec. lemme look

thanks a lot. either that or the 'genres' of an artist. i'd like to query for an artist based on tags or genres

Rivid31 is now known as Rivid33

we don't have genres. to subjective for a large scale.

Rivid33 is now known as Rivid31

mbdump--derived is what you're looking for.

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great, thanks ruaok

np

this might be addressed somewhere in the doc, but i couldn't find it: is there any "best" way to ensure you don't query the server more than once a second? (using python)

a general solution is to make a thread that handles calling the server. you feed requests to the thread via queue...

I think that is how picard does it.

we wrap our command in an decorator

fancy!

got code?

yeah

def delayed

oh, so you ALWYS get a 1 sec delay?

I believe we distinguish between calls to different webservices

yeah, looks great.

Rivid31: copy their stuff.

heh

our @memofy decorator is sexy

yeah that looks good, thanks alastair!

checks if that exact request has been done before and just returns the cached result

awesome for testing

oh, iso

:)

'scuse me, my MP3 album names keep getting trimmed down to 30 letters. Is there any way I can correct this? I'm not sure if it's MusicBrainz Picard causing it or if it's Winamp or Zune software.

sounds like you're only using ID3v1 tags, rather than ID3v2 tags somewhere

I'll attempt opening it with all of the involved programs

aha, fixed it. can I disable Picard adding ID3v1 tags and remove all ID3v1 tags from my entire collection, or is that ill-advised?

I believe it's very ill-advised for anyone's music collection to contain ID3v1 tags.

If you go through the options menu for Picard, you can disable it from writing v1 tags, as for removing v1 tags I would probably use something like Mp3tag to do it.

You can set it to read/write only ID3v1 tags, select all, and click remove.

Of course, I would test that first, to make sure you have the settings right.

aha, got it

Oh, yay, Zune software can't use anything but a specific type

<3 hamthrax

ruaok: how's the eye thing?

at an impasse. ;-)

allergies are a bitch. glasses suck.

but I can see. :)

:)

[01:14] <pronik> "remove mo" :)

uuuhh?

hamtrax?

the aporkalypse!

ruaok: some said that it'd only happen when pigs could fly, but the swine flu.

well, its has traces of avian flu, no?

ergo, pigs are flying!

Heh, admittedly it works so much better when said in person. :p

oic

haha

morning all

where would I find the picard log file in windows vista?

%appdata%\musicbrainz\picard iirc.

Maybe in one of the local/roaming dirs. Not at a vista machine atm. :(

thanks, will look

I thought Picard did it wrong and spaffed out to the directory in which it was installed.

If it's changed, that's new.

can't find any log

nevermind, gotta go do the W word, bye

Fwiw, there's a "View Log" option under the Help menu, no idea what file it tries reading though.

Similarly, I think Picard only ever writes to the log when there's an issue.

could it be that it isn't actually creating a log on Vista since it doesn't run in admin mode, so it has no write permission on its program folder?

I don't, but I can't find no log either (though it has exited multiple times with a message saying an error occured and I should check the log)

lol swine flu

Clearly time to just run it in gdb and have it dump backtraces. ¬_¬

MightyJay: run it from the command line to see its output. you can start it with "--debug" to see more messages on waht picard is doing

MightyJay: ah,on windows. i think it won't output anything on the console there, sorry

oh, no problem... I was just trying to explain why a log might be missing on Vista (since mudcrow asked it)

i don't think it does write a log file anymore. but i'm not sure, i'll have to check that

quick question: is setting such relation for 2CD release correct? http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=10485239

that's corect

thx

question: with the soon to come release groups, is it still necessary (desirable) to have "is the earliest/a later release of" relationships between two releases?

MightyJay: I think that's going to help automatic merging

Note to self: Don't use wobbly windows with Synergy, VirtualBox windows or in fact, just don't use them at all.

I just like my menus to bounce out :)

That's not wobbly windows, that's just your menu effect. ¬_¬

Menu = window

Sigh.

And it uses wobbly windows to do it, so I dunno what you're arguing :P

anyway, to sainsburys!

I'm not arguing a thing, that may be why you don't know what I'm arguing. :p

Also, Tescos > Sainsburys. ¬_¬

"That's not wobbly windows"

Tescos is too big for it's own good