#musicbrainz

Hi everyone...Just started using MusicBrianz yesterday, it looks like an awesome project. I've been using the MusicBrainz Tagger, and I had one question about it. Is it supposed to remove the cover art that I had saved in my MP3s? I tagged a few songs with it last night, and I noticed in iTunes that the cover art disappeared after the new tags were written.

It shouldn't touch the cover art files

They're not seperate files, they're embedded in the MP3 (not exactly sure how that works, I haven't read up on it, but iTunes appears to store the art directly in the MP3 file)

it might be replacing the cover art tags in the mp3 files themselves, but I don't think it should be

Well you will have to wait until someone that knows how it works to come in here and say something

I'll try looking into it further

Anyone know of a tool that dumps all tags/fields out of an MP3? Then I can compare a before/after

im sure it takes that junk out

Junk?

the cover art

i think replaces the entire id3v2

It hasn't replaced fields such as comments in my ID3v{1,2} tags

crazy

its APIC i remember i made a script to put em in and out

but i forgot now :((

the frame

and id3v2 -l shows id3v2 stuff

same with kid3 its really cool!!

I checked the box in the tagger options to not clear the existing tag before writing the new one

But it still apparently does it anyway

that crazy tagger is known for being a rebel renegade and going freestyle mode on your tags

Oh well, it's not that big of a deal. I'd rather have correct song tags. I can add the artwork back in easy enough (I can just sort by album and drag it in)

Storing the album cover in the mp3s seems wasteful to me

:)

I really want to use the "rename files" option to help organize my mess of a collection, but that's REALLY break iTunes

to me too

but then again 10k extra isn't that much

It looks cool in the iTunes visualizer, it shows the art in the corner

but in every mp3

thats 120

and some are like 300k

I'm up to about 40GB

thats 3 megs , one extra mp3 :O

ohh

In my collection

that would be neat

amaiman my winamp shows me the album cover in a window

Not 40GB of cover art :-)

but it reads the cover from the folder.jpg in the album's directory

My problem right now is that my music is spread across two drives in no particular order. I need to buy another hard drive so I can organize it (can't fit two copies right now)

Once I have the tags done properly, iTunes should sort it into folders nicely with the 'Consolidate library' feature

hopefully :)

A lot of my music is strange stuff like Video Game soundtracks, those can be a pain to tag properly

especially when you get the tagger's addiction

i hate that

you got one song thats not tagged right, cant let it go... one song not a big deal, have to find perfect tag for it, google, newsgroups, irc, blah blah and it basically isnt good

out of 10 hours of tagging, i bet like 3 hours to tag 99% of the mp3s, and 7 hours to tag the remaining 1%

Yep

ya.. I've been tagging my mp3s over the last few months... I do a hour or so every week

Whoops, my finger slipped, I deleted that problem mp3, never listened to it anyway :-)

I've got from A-M now :)

With my dumb luck, my hard drive will crash right after I finish tagging. I've gotta go buy a backup drive soon

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-_-

I hate trying to come up with summaries for bug reports.

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someone else find bugs in picard, I'm hogging the bug reporting thing :(

Mine keeps crashing or failing to write tags, but it's almost always on things with accents.

most of my accents are already UTF-8 though, it seems to like them most of the time.

I have had it say it's written tags and not actually done so, and had to re-tag and then remove the tags using foobar, then try again, and it works. I dunno why it's doing it though.

the latest thing I've found is that I can remove things like "Album Clusters"

but only under certain circumstances

gah, it's being too fast

I removed all three of the folder things

Weird.

I find it annoying that I can't select a bunch of things and manually cluster them...

Not really a bug though.

it was funny.

I think that's on the things to do thing or something.

thing thing thing.

:)

I need a dictionary (or a thesausus)

...or a thesaurus.

err

oops

My thesausus died out with the rest of the dinosaurs... ;p

Uh... thesaurus.

You made me do it now!

I was so busy making sure I wrote the not thea that I completely missed it x_X

I like having a dictionary/thesaurus program on my computer, personally, since I can type a word to look up quicker than I can find it in a book.

Hehe.

I have a dictionary, but not a thesaurus

Is that one of your pet hates? People saying it "thea"?

nope, but my brain tries to say theasaurus

Hehe.

Well it's kinda one of mine.

I'm good at inserting non-existent syllables into things.

So many people do, and I want to punch them.

Twice.

only twice?

Maybe.

Twice at a minimum, at least.

hehe

Um... that wasn't supposed to be tautologous.

the more simple errors bug me more

The "at least" was meant in a different way. Just reading it back it sounded odd.

your/you're makes me want to cry

Yeah.

They're/there/their/

c_c

That last / should have been a .

it's one of the first things people learn, that's like saying acbdef, etc. for the alphabet.

it's and its stands out a lot to me now, but I can understand where people get confused with those.

stand

Yeah.

One thing that _really_ makes me want to punch people, a lot more than twice, is the whole "PIN number", "ATM machine" etc. thing.

Ask them what PIN stands for, they tell you. Ask them why they say "PIN number", they say it's because everyone else does. It's blatantly wrong. If everyone else raped 3 year olds, would they?!

yes.

Damn. They're sicker than I thought.

I remember someone asking me if I'd jump off a bridge if my friend did when I was stealing gravel from someone's garden once and used the "'cause my friend was!" excuse.

I don't remember /why/ I just had to have some gravel.

LOL.

Gravel's always handy.

I was only about 8 though