how do I tag for someone who is credited for "basic arrangement" in an album? my first instinct is that it's 'basic' as in 'bass guitar' (since that's one of the instruments used in the song) but maybe it means something completely different?
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echarlie
improbable that it means bass (as the word root for basic would be base, not bass). depending on context, I'd credit them as arranger.
2021-02-16 04743, 2021
echarlie
(which may actually be a work relation, but I don't have the docs up)
2021-02-16 04712, 2021
Misty_Pond
right now I have them as "instruments arranger", should I remove the 'instruments' attribute?
2021-02-16 04708, 2021
Misty_Pond
(this is in addition to a general "arranger" credit, btw)
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does "sound producer" = "sound engineer" on Japanese albums?
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Darkloke
hi2all. A rather unusual question about picard. Is it possible to drag & drop files there via keyboard hot-key? Its possible to do with "send to [program shortcut]", but every time it launches a new program instance. May be its possible to modify "send to" to send files into existing program instance?
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outsidecontext
Darkloke: no, not possible at the moment, at least on Windows and Linux. On macOS it behaves like you describe by default, but this is due to macOS handling this differently by default
PICARD-1933: Option to open new command line requests in an existing instance
2021-02-16 04729, 2021
Darkloke
Thanks for info, <outsidecontext>. Also thought may be someone knows some general utility for that (for sending files indifferent programs).
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outsidecontext
Darkloke: I am unfortunately not aware of anyway to do that. AFAIK applications have to handle it their own, there is no standard way to send files to running processes on Windows and most others. Which is a shame really.
2021-02-16 04717, 2021
outsidecontext
The way of how macOS handles this is so much saner. I recently looked into solving this for Linux (and had it kind of working), but would like to have a cross platform solution.
it should be the same thing, just one is 48khz flac and the other is lossy 44.1khz, should I add a new release for the 48khz one, or just a new catalog id to the existing release?
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King_DuckZ
with the catalog number being... LACA-15855_HI-24_48? I guess?
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atj
King_DuckZ: are you making up that catalog number?
2021-02-16 04741, 2021
King_DuckZ
atj: sort of, it's the thing in the url
2021-02-16 04710, 2021
King_DuckZ
I'm trying to figure out if they even have a different catalog number or not
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atj
King_DuckZ: if they definitely have a different catalog number then I'd lean towards a separate release. However I don't see the number listed on the page anywhere, and I don't think you can assume that the path in the URL is equivalent to a cat #.
2021-02-16 04741, 2021
evelyn
I don't think sample rate should be a question of whether it's a different release - is it not just the same as Bandcamp offering WAV or FLACs, or MP3 v0 and MP3@320k?
2021-02-16 04734, 2021
atj
evelyn: as a general rule I agree, but if it has a distinct cat # then I'd say it should be added as a different release.
2021-02-16 04736, 2021
oxek
Is it possible to configure picard to only add specific tags and discard all others?
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evelyn
I also wouldn't describe CD-quality WAVs as lossy :>
2021-02-16 04718, 2021
evelyn
oxek: right-click on a tag field, you can add them to a whitelist so they don't get overwritten
2021-02-16 04740, 2021
oxek
evelyn: I found that option, but it means I need to label 50 tags that I don't want
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oxek
and when I then tried it, picard still overwrote the empty fields
2021-02-16 04721, 2021
oxek
for example, I pick ASIN, put it as Preserve Tags, Remove it, do lookup, it is now marked as different, do save, and ASIN is once again saved into the file
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atj
Well, you're asking it to preserve the absence of a tag which doesn't make sense really.
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atj
My assumption is that the feature is there to preseve tags with existing values from being overwritten.
2021-02-16 04730, 2021
oxek
atj: I know. That's why I'm looking for an option to not add a tag.
2021-02-16 04747, 2021
atj
oxek: ok, the answer (AFAIK) is no then.
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oxek
oh
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oxek
that's a pity then
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atj
Weird use case
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atj
oxek: note - I'm not a Picard guru so may be wrong, but I'm reasonably confident what I said is correct.
2021-02-16 04729, 2021
oxek
I've gone through all the options and looked at the guides and didn't see it either
2021-02-16 04732, 2021
oxek
so you're very likely correct
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atj
oxek: if you have a reasonable use case that is likely to be useful to more than just yourself then file a bug
2021-02-16 04742, 2021
atj
oxek: however Picard has been around for some time so I think we can safely say it's not an oft-requested feature :)
2021-02-16 04714, 2021
atj
outsidecontext would be the authoritative source on this I think
2021-02-16 04743, 2021
outsidecontext
oxek: there are a couple of topics about this in the forums. The current way to do this would be to have a script that unsets all the tags you don't want to be written
2021-02-16 04722, 2021
outsidecontext
oxek: and as I always do if this comes up: do yourself a favor and allow it to write the MusicBrainz IDs into the tags, at least the reocording and release ID
2021-02-16 04757, 2021
oxek
outsidecontext: of course those IDs are important, I'm talking about all those that are very likely incorrect because I have no idea which of the 18+ versions my CDs are
2021-02-16 04715, 2021
Lotheric
King_DuckZ, hi-def releases usually have a different UPC/EAN so yeah, I'd probably make a new release
2021-02-16 04712, 2021
darwin
oxek: beets with the zero plugin can do what you like.
I already have beets installed, but am struggling with configuring it
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Lotheric
atj, 24bit/192kHz
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King_DuckZ
ok well so this means that without a separate cat number I shouldn't add a new release? I also don't see cat numbers anywhere besides the url, which is a bit of a long shot for guessing it, I know...
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King_DuckZ
I can't see any UPC either
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Lotheric
if you can't see a different cat number or upc or anything different.. than don't add a new release
2021-02-16 04705, 2021
King_DuckZ
ok, thanks for the answers :)
2021-02-16 04725, 2021
King_DuckZ
oh, what about the acoust id? is it ok for me to submit the acoust id from the 48khz flac even if it's landing on the non-hi-res release in MB?
"going 16bit to 24bit can deliver a noticeable leap in quality" [citation needed]
2021-02-16 04712, 2021
Lotheric
I agree but what the industry does is not always sane :)
2021-02-16 04711, 2021
Lotheric
That way they can seel you digital music at a premium price that you won't hear any difference anyways because of your speakers, DAC or ears
2021-02-16 04713, 2021
Lotheric
hehe
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atj
Primarily ears
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atj
It's up there with premium ethernet cables that apparently enhance the bits that are sent across it.
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oxek
it does make sense actually
2021-02-16 04745, 2021
oxek
the pairs in ethernet cables have different winding numbers (to lower crosstalk), hence for long cables you'll end up with bits travelling longer distance depending on which pair they take
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oxek
this can introduce latency as the packets are reconstructed
2021-02-16 04728, 2021
oxek
higher quality cables can have winding numbers that are more similar between all pairs, so the latency is lower
2021-02-16 04726, 2021
atj
not sure how that influences the quality of music sent across over the cable
2021-02-16 04727, 2021
oxek
of course most "premium ethernet cables" are nonsense, but there are some cables that actually are better quality
2021-02-16 04700, 2021
atj
oxek: sorry, my comment was in reference to cables marketed to audiophiles, not general purpose cables.
2021-02-16 04700, 2021
oxek
it shouldn't matter for music, unless you're already almost saturating the bandwidth that the cable can take (by transferring other things), and using some QoS that deprioritizes music
2021-02-16 04730, 2021
oxek
that's when this tiny difference between higher quality and lower quality cables can manifest
2021-02-16 04713, 2021
oxek
(of course it's extremely unlikely that anyone would run into this scenario in the wild)
