The only Canadian beer I know is Moosehead Lager and it tastes like Moose piss.
2009-03-12 07125, 2009
navap
Ya you said, I was wondering if anyone else in the channel would know what the drink was.
2009-03-12 07135, 2009
navap
What did you expect? It's beer.
2009-03-12 07138, 2009
Muz
¬_¬
2009-03-12 07146, 2009
Muz
You haven't been to a Samuel Smith's I see.
2009-03-12 07155, 2009
Munger
I doubt they would recognize it as a drink if they saw it. Looks more like a shrubbery
2009-03-12 07147, 2009
Munger
You said that some of the entries on bsnpubs had the catalog numbers wrong?
2009-03-12 07157, 2009
navap
107 and 108, yes.
2009-03-12 07116, 2009
Munger
What makes you say that?
2009-03-12 07156, 2009
navap
Looking at the picture of the liner of 108 on Amazon
2009-03-12 07137, 2009
Munger
So they have them transposed?
2009-03-12 07148, 2009
navap
The second discs, yes.
2009-03-12 07146, 2009
Munger
I also read your note about not trusting the listing on eBay. I appreciate what you mean, but I wonder where they got that number from. I can't believe they looked anywhere else except on the CD cover
2009-03-12 07141, 2009
Munger
If they show a picture of the front cover, and a valid format time-life cat #, I doubt they got the info from anywhere else
2009-03-12 07101, 2009
navap
meh, I just have a feeling that its wrong, the liner on amazon was very legible and clear.
2009-03-12 07127, 2009
Munger
I am not sure which release we are looking at on MB
2009-03-12 07137, 2009
Munger
Many of them have incorrect ASINs
2009-03-12 07117, 2009
Munger
Just opened a new window witha search for 'The Time-Life Treasury of Christmas'
2009-03-12 07142, 2009
brianfreud
anyone bored? :)
2009-03-12 07144, 2009
kha00hs has quit
2009-03-12 07112, 2009
Munger
Got 20 discs in the list
2009-03-12 07135, 2009
Munger
I'm very bored with this, but I want to clear it up once and for all
navap: looking for someone who's kind of familiar with the crap in freedb to take "This Is a Song, Parts 1, 3 & 5: The Subtitle" and turn it into a ton of mangled (but comprehensible) 1, 2, and 3 -part variations, with pt., pt, (part ), etc - you know the type of mess I mean
2009-03-12 07133, 2009
navap
Munger: If I owned everything I edited on mb..well lol I would have quite a nice sized collection :p
2009-03-12 07109, 2009
navap
I thought thats what the test was for? Doesn't it have all those types of varients?
2009-03-12 07123, 2009
navap
"mangled (but comprehensible)" lol
2009-03-12 07124, 2009
brianfreud
with and without subtitles - basically mangling it by hand, or dumping a ton of examples straight from freedb
2009-03-12 07158, 2009
brianfreud
navap: it does, but I'm also somewhat influenced, probably, in writing the tests, since I also wrote the handler. Looking for a bunch of "real world" cases to add to the test.
2009-03-12 07141, 2009
navap
What happens if the numbers are out of order?
2009-03-12 07126, 2009
brianfreud
I thought about writing a check for that - it'd be rather simple to do, actually.
2009-03-12 07145, 2009
brianfreud
But I think it's more likely to normally screw up intentional orders, rather than the rare times it might fix bad ordering.
2009-03-12 07108, 2009
navap
Though I'm concerned that might infringe on artist intent in most cases.
2009-03-12 07124, 2009
navap should look up while typing.
2009-03-12 07130, 2009
brianfreud
lol
2009-03-12 07143, 2009
brianfreud
but yeah... I just want to make sure I'm not artificially influencing the tests by adding in a series of tests based on true life bork
2009-03-12 07123, 2009
Munger
I don't envy your can of worms brian
2009-03-12 07132, 2009
navap
hm The subtitle makes it quite hard, there are a lot of ways a subtitle can be written on freedb et al, but the only way to know if its a true subtitle is through manual intervention.
2009-03-12 07142, 2009
brianfreud
lol, well, I have all but one nit done in handling arabic numbers - then the others are mainly just copy/paste, with slight modifications for type.
I have blotted all that from my memory and never wish to remember :-)
2009-03-12 07147, 2009
brianfreud
navap: I'm also looking for various titles with the word "part" not being used as a part number.
2009-03-12 07105, 2009
navap
Oh boy
2009-03-12 07151, 2009
brianfreud
So far, happily, the fingerprint I'm using (the obscenely deep if set at the top) passes -
2009-03-12 07106, 2009
brianfreud
I'm using a negative approach to identifying if it is a part number, rather than the positive match the old GC and my old part number style code used
2009-03-12 07126, 2009
brianfreud
so far, I have yet to find a non-part number string that actually makes it past that fingerprinting and gets mis-handled
2009-03-12 07136, 2009
navap hears a faint 'whoosh'
2009-03-12 07139, 2009
brianfreud
or a part number that doesn't pass it
2009-03-12 07145, 2009
brianfreud
:P
2009-03-12 07155, 2009
brianfreud
take every instance of part, pt, pts, parts, etc, and only mess with it if it passes a bunch of tests, rather than messing with it if it doesn't pass a test or two
2009-03-12 07140, 2009
navap
Messing with it if it passes the test is the positive match?
2009-03-12 07151, 2009
brianfreud
negative match
2009-03-12 07104, 2009
navap
hm That seems backwards to me.
2009-03-12 07116, 2009
brianfreud
me too, but that's how it was always taught to me :P
2009-03-12 07133, 2009
brianfreud
negative on the Q "is this invalid for what we want"? I guess
2009-03-12 07156, 2009
navap
Thats dangerous, I've had teachers who were adamant that latitude was the vertical axis'
ooh, nice too, they have roman numbers right after :)
2009-03-12 07105, 2009
navap
hm that might not be correct how it is
2009-03-12 07105, 2009
Munger
The base name of the track is actually 'Spare Parts'
2009-03-12 07118, 2009
brianfreud
actually, that release hits a lot of possible trouble spots... I'll have to save it for more testing later :)
2009-03-12 07120, 2009
navap
Ya, it should be "Spare Parts II: And Closing"
2009-03-12 07131, 2009
Munger
Nope
2009-03-12 07134, 2009
navap
With a comma
2009-03-12 07134, 2009
brianfreud
nope
2009-03-12 07138, 2009
navap
No?
2009-03-12 07148, 2009
brianfreud
because it's "Spare Parts", not "Spare, Part II"
2009-03-12 07149, 2009
navap
Brackets?
2009-03-12 07149, 2009
Munger
It's correct as it it is
2009-03-12 07114, 2009
navap
ohh wow /me finally clues in.
2009-03-12 07130, 2009
brianfreud
that's the kind of "is it a real part number style" that routine tries to automate
2009-03-12 07145, 2009
brianfreud
damn
2009-03-12 07147, 2009
brianfreud
it fails :P
2009-03-12 07152, 2009
navap
lol
2009-03-12 07156, 2009
brianfreud
first failure I've seen
2009-03-12 07111, 2009
Munger
Never mind. Get the album. It's really great :-)
2009-03-12 07124, 2009
brianfreud
lol, navap, it agrees with you though, "Spare, Part II: Closing"
2009-03-12 07146, 2009
navap
:p
2009-03-12 07119, 2009
brianfreud
keep 'em coming Munger - that's just the kind of tricky stuff I need :)
2009-03-12 07145, 2009
brianfreud
can't be perfect, but I can try :)
2009-03-12 07103, 2009
Munger
Can't think of any more right now, but to make it even more fun, Amazon have chosen to add (live) to all the track names. The whole album is live with no interruptions between tracks
2009-03-12 07136, 2009
navap
"The album was recorded "live"" according to wikipedia as well
2009-03-12 07152, 2009
navap
ALthough I'm not sure why "live" is in quotations :/
