#musicbrainz

yeah same here

I can transcode to other formats, without loss of quality.

the only reason I didn't start with that is the size would have been crazy back in 2002 ;)

gnu_andrew: Same.

gnu_andrew: Large HDDs FTW :D

gnu_andrew: How many GBs is your collection, then?

yeah I've been trying to backup stuff to DVD then realised it would just be easier to get an external hard drive -- couple of terabytes for about 150 IIRC

I think it's around 40-50

gnu_andrew: Backing up stuff to DVD was never going to work.

gnu_andrew: My external HDD is 500GB

It's running out of space. :(

yeah back in the day maybe but not now

we really need a bigger optical format

gnu_andrew: Even Blu-ray isn't good enough.

gnu_andrew: I want cheaper, larger SSDs

Bluray is nowhere near, expensive writers and only about 25gb

that would be nice

I suppose there is tape too, haven't looked at that much

gnu_andrew: External HDDs seem the only option right now.

gnu_andrew: WTF tape?!?!?

gnu_andrew: no reason to go to tape these days

just get a 2TB disk

gnu_andrew: Those really aren't practical.

or 2x1TB, which is significantly cheaper

alastairp: 2TB disks are expensive.

alastairp: I recently bought a 500GB one.

I should have gone for a 3.5" 1TB one

alastairp, that's exactly what I did do ;)

I need to wait for HDD technology to advance a bit more before I can start downloading HD films.

first time I did df and it came up with a T rather than a G for the size :)

It's odd how I'm not talking about music here, but talking about music in #debian-offtopic

xcsdfghj, haha well it is sort of music-related... vaguely

though digital video is what I need the space for more than anything

Hi! Is it possible to make picard use the latin artist name in filenames. Got some japanese composers and moving japanese filenames between various operanting systems tend to screw things up.

there's an option to use the 'english' name somewhere which I presume is also used for the tags

or maybe it says translate foreign artist names, I don't remember

well, I know the option is there, I mean I don't remember how it's worked

worded, even...

You can tick that option and then tick 'don't save tags' that should make Picard use latin file names, but preserve the non-latin tags.

I really like some of my ______________ - ________ _____ ____________ file names ;)

Could you do me a favor and have a look at this http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=11299117, I think it is clearly breaking the OST guidelines by adding "gamename soundtrack" to the official title

http://themushroomkingdom.net/mania/images/box/... <-- front cover

If anything it should have been "Love, Peace & Happiness: The Original Yoshi's Story Soundtrack".

I would have probably used what navap wrote

"Passion" (Peter Gabriel's soundtrack for the film "The Last Temptation of Christ") would remain "Passion"; an annotation noting what film the soundtrack is from would be appropriate. <-- what about this one?

aCiD2: ping!

wow.

this trading/wire transfer service I'm using gives quotes are that good for THIRTY SECONDS.

wow.

but, paying our slacker student got much much easier now.

I bet if you didn't pay him it would provide incentive to work more :)

heh. I'm already a week behind this round, so thats probably enough punishment. :)

oops

but the new system allows me to send wires whenever and in under 15 mouse clicks.

as opposed to educating the stupid muppets at the bank about the difference been Great Britain and the United Kingdom.

hah

ruaok: thanks for the email :)

np

slacking!? >.>

did you get a confirmation from xe ?

yup

great.

j/k on the slacking. :)

:P

nikki: I don't know.

have a good time?

one of the stupid bank screens had an option for UK.

new hair looks awesome btw

another one did not, and only offered Great Britain.

that got the poor guy into a tailspin.

I had to bust this out to un-confused him: http://qntm.org/?uk

I usually find that most people just think they're synonymous when they're actually not

aCiD2: thanks. the hair has been super popular. that's why I re-did it.

nikki: ding

it looks really sharp

did you see the picture of ariel?

with the punk rainbow mowhawk?

thats some of my hair cutting skills at work.

she's coming to london with me. :-)

yea, that looks crazy too

ooh, rainbow hair :o

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mayhem/3975147459/... i have those scissors!

next year for pride we're going to re-do it.

2 quid at ikea, right? :-)

probaby :)

oh, do you have checking or a savings account?

is there such a difference in the UK?

i can't remember which I have

checkings, I believe

I guess checking... I hope that isn't wrong. it should still be ok, methinks.

checking, I bet

(it's a current account)

I'd guess too.

if not, we'll do it again.

savings is stuff without an overdraft or debit card or anything

my isa is a savings, my student one is checking

where you (shock horror) save money :P

which one is the halifax one?

...save?

ruaok: you have my student account

perfect.

heehee...

aCiD2: can you please email me your postal addy at uni?

there is a MB fan who would like to send you a little gift. :)

:O

Send Bush to the Hague!

please kick this person for me!

it's hard to argue my points because I don't really fully understand them enough, but I understand them enough to know they are all bad things :P

We did it!

oh, and she's very anti-obama and pro mccain

wow. I can't fathom how people can think like that.

so. very. sad.

i refuse to give up

well, you're not properly armed, my friend.

but i can see it being verrry awkward

you use logic and rational reasoning.

anyone who thinks along her lines... does not.

you can't use logic to fight ignorance.

oh also ruaok, you can help me here -- I'm considering doing my PhD in america

but I have no idea where good universities for comp sci are, any pointers of states?

you want me to smack some sense into you?

aha

massechusets and california.

i want to try somewhere other than the uk

if you have too much money to burn, MIT or Stanford.

and the us and uk seem to be the top unis, other than a few chinese places

I don't think I could get into Mit or Standford, sadly

university of waterloo in canuckistan

yeah, you could kill two birds with one stone.

live in/near toronna and go to school.

UoW always handily kicked our asses in the programming contest

toronna eh, never heard of that

thats the locals pronounciation