Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

[Stuart Sears]

On 11/09/09 22:52, Leo wrote:
> Stuart Sears wrote:
>> On 07/09/09 19:05, Leo wrote:
>>> Unfortunately I've tried both exfalso and easytag and neither of them is
>>> really good enough for me.
>>
>> What do you need/want a tag editor to do that they don't?
>> Are you comparing these to an editor you've used in the past?
>>
>> How about picard?
>>
>>
>> Stuart
>>
> 
> Basically, I've found that each one offers some of the functionality I 
> want, but not all of it, so I end up using about 3, and the command 
> line. E.g.:
> exfalso: - cddb lookup isn't great. it doesn't seem as successful at 
> finding CDs as other tag editors.
>   - it doesn't cope well if another program updates the tags in a file, 
> it just seems to ignore them
>   - it has a habit of asking if I'm sure I want to make changes for 
> *every* song I update.

Now, you really should be able to turn that off. I don't know if you
can, mind.

> easytag: - I can't find out how to get it to work with multiple artists 
> and genres.
>   - I don't think it works with custom tags.

Multiple Genres on the same album? Interesting :)

I liked the mass renaming capabilities of easytag, using the filter
editor, including renaming/creating directories - not found much else
that does that bit quite as well. (well, actually amarok used to be able
to do similar things, IIRC)

> Also neither of them work brilliantly when I have an album in two 
> formats in a directory.

I've never had that issue - I tend to separate them into subdirs in that
situation. You really leave all the files in the same directory?
Most Linux media players would have an issue with that as well, in my
experience.

> (If I'm wrong about any of that, then please let me know.)
> Don't think I've tried picard, so I'll give that a go.

picard uses musicbrainz, which for me has proven pretty good up to now.
It sometimes gets things wrong though - a little manual TLC can come in
useful.

> My ideal tag editor (and music player) would be foobar (for windows). 
> It's about the one bit of software I haven't found a similar replacement 
> for in Linux (in my opinion). Although gmusicbrowser comes close.

If you mean foobar2000 it's reported to work more or less perfectly
under wine:

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=14597

So if all else fails...


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Re: [Hampshire] Tag editors

[Leo]

Stuart Sears wrote:
> On 07/09/09 19:05, Leo wrote:
>> Unfortunately I've tried both exfalso and easytag and neither of them is
>> really good enough for me.
> 
> What do you need/want a tag editor to do that they don't?
> Are you comparing these to an editor you've used in the past?
> 
> How about picard?
> 
> 
> Stuart
> 

Basically, I've found that each one offers some of the functionality I 
want, but not all of it, so I end up using about 3, and the command 
line. E.g.:
exfalso: - cddb lookup isn't great. it doesn't seem as successful at 
finding CDs as other tag editors.
- it doesn't cope well if another program updates the tags in a file, 
it just seems to ignore them
- it has a habit of asking if I'm sure I want to make changes for 
*every* song I update.

easytag: - I can't find out how to get it to work with multiple artists 
and genres.
- I don't think it works with custom tags.

Also neither of them work brilliantly when I have an album in two 
formats in a directory.

(If I'm wrong about any of that, then please let me know.)
Don't think I've tried picard, so I'll give that a go.

My ideal tag editor (and music player) would be foobar (for windows). 
It's about the one bit of software I haven't found a similar replacement 
for in Linux (in my opinion). Although gmusicbrowser comes close.

Leo

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Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth

[John Cooper]

On 11/09/09 17:19, Timothy Brocklehurst wrote:
> On Friday 11 September 2009 16:05:33 Roger Munford wrote:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/
> 
> You seem surprised... Don't be.
> 
> "The claims are not unlike those Microsoft has made in the past" no, more 
> identical really.
> 
> I think we've started to see the fall of microsoft to be honest, and it's not 
> because Linux is amazingly good (it's great, don't get me wrong), but it's 
> because Microsoft is now seen to be lying by more "average" users, not just 
> developers.
> 
> Tim B.
> 
M$ will continue with desperate measures to try and hold on to its
monopoly. Its business model is now faltering because most people and
businesses just need XP as a platform to run applications. Therefore
they now have nothing new to sell. Vista was a disaster and Windows 7
will not make up for this. Linux has played a part in this, but the
reality is M$ is to blame and Linux will continue to benefit and
increase its market share. Bill Gates did a Tony Blair; he both got out
while the going was good ;-)

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Re: [Hampshire] [OT] DAB / DVB recommendation

[Leo]

Rob Malpass wrote:
> 
> Hi all
>  
> This is way OT but someone on this list might just know of a product to 
> fit my bill
>  
> I want a gadget that will record one particular radio programme 
> digitally such that I can listen to it in bed - but here are the 
> constraints:
> a) I can get a DAB radio with live pause but I've not seen one that acts 
> like a PVR i.e. repeatedly records a programme.
> b) I can use a PVR - but that requires a TV (which I don't want to leave 
> on) - and besides even a TV on with nothing on screen still gives off 
> light and makes it harder to sleep.   Even if I operated a PVR without a 
> TV (i.e. sent the output to a speaker system) - they're usually 
> extremely fiddly to operate through whatever display is on the front of 
> the unit.   I have a Humax that would be just the ticket - were it 
> operable without a tv
> c) and finally - there's no TV aerial in the bedroom and (from my 
> testing) cheapo TV aerials dont' work so well around here.
>  
> There is still one [1] product out there that records to SD card but by 
> the look of it - that records what's on now as opposed to what I want 
> which is basically to record the news on R4 every night so I can get the 
> headlines no matter what time I go to bed.
>  
> Anybody seen anything I could use.
>  
> Cheers
> Rob
>  
> [1] 
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000WZF6R0/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=471057153&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0002ZDSCU&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=13CQ3YNAS1E6YR2RNQVZ
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 

I don't know if this quite fits your requirements, but I'll mention it 
anyway:
If you've a PC that you could put it on, and if it's just Radio 4 news 
you want, what about get_iplayer [1]. A very brief scan shows up "Six 
O'Clock News, BBC Radio 4" among others. You could write a quick script 
to run that, convert it to a format of your choice and then put it on a 
portable mp3 player to listen to.

Leo

[1] http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer/

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Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth

[Jim Kissel]

What do you expect from Microsoft.  Love and kisses?  They are running 
shit scared.  "Fear and loathing" stalk the corridors of Redmond and 
they don't have anything they can do other than attack.  FUD is there 
only weapon.   This is just a replay of the "Best Buy" playbook that we 
saw yesterday

Roger Munford wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/
> 

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Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth

[Timothy Brocklehurst]

On Friday 11 September 2009 16:05:33 Roger Munford wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/

You seem surprised... Don't be.

"The claims are not unlike those Microsoft has made in the past" no, more 
identical really.

I think we've started to see the fall of microsoft to be honest, and it's not 
because Linux is amazingly good (it's great, don't get me wrong), but it's 
because Microsoft is now seen to be lying by more "average" users, not just 
developers.

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[Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth

[Roger Munford]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/

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Re: [Hampshire] Rehab-ing my "m" key

[Dominic Cleal]

On Friday 11 September 2009 03:07:43 'Mike Burrows' wrote:
> Hi folks, long time no post.
>
> I was fiddling around last night and some how managed to reassign sound
> mute to the m key.  Don't know how I did it and have tried some of the
> Google solutions which don't work.
>
> Running kde on a sarge box.
>
> Any thoughts please on how to toggle off mute?

Without knowing which solutions you've tried, it's possible that it's the 
global shortcut in KMix.

To find this, right click on the speaker icon in your taskbar and click Show 
mixer window, or run KMix from the menu.  From the Settings menu, click 
Configure Global Shortcuts and then you can disable or change the toggle mute 
shortcut in the list.

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Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

[Andy Random]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Hugo Mills wrote:

>   Dammit. That was meant to go to Anton.
>
> 




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Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

[Hugo Mills]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:09:59PM +0100, Anton Piatek1 wrote:
> > As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 
> > 13th Sept. Details of the day (times to arrive) and how to get there are 
> 
> > We need to supply a list of names to security before the day, so please 
> > email Anton Piatek (anton.piatek AT uk.ibm.com) with your details
> 
>I'll be attending.

   Dammit. That was meant to go to Anton.



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Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept

[Hugo Mills]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:09:59PM +0100, Anton Piatek1 wrote:
> As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 
> 13th Sept. Details of the day (times to arrive) and how to get there are 

> We need to supply a list of names to security before the day, so please 
> email Anton Piatek (anton.piatek AT uk.ibm.com) with your details

   I'll be attending.

   Hugo.

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[Hampshire] SCART input to PC

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Hi,

The output of the SCART socket of a SKY box can be RGB.
Does anyone know of any PCI or PCI express cards that can capture the
RGB signal and is Linux compatible?

I can find quite a few that can capture S-Video and Composite, but none RGB.

Kind Regards

James

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[Hampshire] Alan Turing Apology

[Daniel Pope]

Those of you who signed the petition demanding an apology for Alan 
Turing may have been e-mailed about this already, but Gordon Brown has 
issued an apology.

http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571

Reading it I felt it diminished Turing somewhat in that the description 
of his meaning to Britain was merely his role in the war effort. The 
petition creator wrote it better: "Alan Turing was the greatest computer 
scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing."

If you haven't, you're still free to add your name to the petition if 
you would like to:

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

Dan

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