what's your question? someone might still know the answer
2009-11-02 30637, 2009
axionix
i was wondering how picard figures out the encoding of filenames
2009-11-02 30644, 2009
axionix
i cant find it in the source
2009-11-02 30655, 2009
nikki
I think it uses whatever the os usually uses (and whatever encoding the locale says in linux)
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warp
on linux there is no easy way to do this, linux doesn't know about filename encoding, so you could have two files in the same directory with differently encoded filenames.
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axionix
hmm ok
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Guest54647
hey.
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Guest54647
um
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Guest54647
hey, what's with the screwy name.
2009-11-02 30636, 2009
danderson
so, yeah, hi.
2009-11-02 30657, 2009
danderson
I'm looking through the artist database. Is it correct that there is no country/language information available in there?
2009-11-02 30603, 2009
danderson
other than possibly freeform tags?
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warp
danderson: yes, we're currently storing country/language for releases, but not for artists.
2009-11-02 30630, 2009
danderson
ok, cheers
2009-11-02 30632, 2009
danderson
for the context: I'm deep in i18n hell trying to segment artist names correctly according to language. My segmenter library can be given a language hint, which is very useful in segmenting correctly for asian languages
2009-11-02 30612, 2009
danderson
hopefully the lack of hint won't bork too much. Otherwise, I'll just have to figure out some other way :)
2009-11-02 30651, 2009
warp
danderson: you could ofcourse grab all the releases an artist appears on and see which language/country occurs most often.
2009-11-02 30606, 2009
danderson
hmm, that's a good idea!
2009-11-02 30634, 2009
danderson
but it'll be a todo for now, if I can start off with a prototype that works for english, I'll happily dive into getting full i18n working later.
2009-11-02 30605, 2009
danderson
if I do the analysis, would MB be interested in getting the results back into the DB as an "artist language(s)" field?
2009-11-02 30654, 2009
warp
we don't currently have an artist language field, though there are some big database changes coming and I have no idea what those changes are exactly :)
2009-11-02 30607, 2009
warp
danderson: ok, aCiD2 confirms we will have artist country and language in the next release.
2009-11-02 30637, 2009
danderson
aha, awesome!
2009-11-02 30642, 2009
ruaok
warp: not language.
2009-11-02 30644, 2009
ruaok
only country.
2009-11-02 30657, 2009
warp
ah, sorry, thanks for correcting me, ruaok.
2009-11-02 30601, 2009
danderson
good enough, countries usually have a dominant few languages
programmatic access to LyricWiki's collection of lyrics." at all positive?
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pronik
look into the scrollback
2009-11-02 30631, 2009
pronik
their API now only gives the URL, which is extremely easy to parse due to the MediaWiki nature
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ruaok
that doesn't sound like RIAA backing, really.
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pronik
" licensing agreements with the biggest publishers in the music industry " doesn't sound like that?
2009-11-02 30637, 2009
pronik
"LyricWiki in the old sense of the word has shut down. However, the entire contents has been contributed to this new wiki which is run by Wikia. Wikia has a licensing deal with music publishers, so the project will be able to survive and thrive!"
