Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
OS X is a bit of a problem in this regard. cdparanoia via Max is the best GUI solution, as far as I'm concerned, but the metadata goes missing. Using Max in combination with MusicBrainz' Picard tagger would probably work fine. I actually use cdparanoia on the command line to do my ripping. Best, -d. -- Damon Allen Davison http://allolex.net
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:41:52AM +0100, Damon Allen Davison wrote: OS X is a bit of a problem in this regard. cdparanoia via Max is the best GUI solution, as far as I'm concerned, but the metadata goes missing. Using Max in combination with MusicBrainz' Picard tagger would probably work fine. I actually use cdparanoia on the command line to do my ripping. It's fairly trivial to code up a small chunk of code to convert, rename and tag the files one has ripped with CDParanoia. One might even use, oh I don't know, Perl. (Please archive in FLAC if you have the storage space; it will cause the least trouble in the long run, as it is the most widely-supported and least legally-encumbered lossless compression format. Which is not to say you shouldn't also transcode to something lossy for devices with limited storage...) R
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Roger Burton Westro...@firedrake.org wrote: (Please archive in FLAC if you have the storage space; it will cause the least trouble in the long run, as it is the most widely-supported and least legally-encumbered lossless compression format. Which is not to say you shouldn't also transcode to something lossy for devices with limited storage...) I would, but I'm lazy. Laziness involves using itunes to sync my ipod. ipod does not support FLAC. itunes can only even play flac with a third party plugin. Since this plugin doesn't support automatically reencoding when shipping it off to my ipod, it's not really practical. Disk space is cheap and all my CDs are ripped in AAC lossless (which the ipod does support). Keeping a lossless and a lossy copy would be just a bit much even for me though. --James (who is annoyed that rockbox *still* doesn't support his 3rd gen ipod nano).
Re: London.pm Technical Meeting 30th July 2009
I won't be able to come along (too late to sign up now, and East Anglia trains have kindly decided to go on strike every Thurs/Fri of the next month or so!), but I'd love to hear what comes out of this one: Dave Cross - Why do so many companies re-invent well-known CPAN modules badly and end up writing far too much code? Any chance anyone is planning on taking some notes and putting them up on a website somewhere? :-D (please?)
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:03:30AM +0100, James Laver wrote: [...] Disk space is cheap and all my CDs are ripped in AAC lossless (which the ipod does support). Keeping a lossless and a lossy copy would be just a bit much even for me though. There are evil hacks you can do with smart playlists to let you manage the two separate copies. It's not exactly ideal though.
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
Wow, so much legwork for such a small job. I've converted many hundreds of CDs to MP3 on Windows with iTunes, and have never had any problems with quality, and only minor issues with tagging. Maybe my standards are lower :-) /R Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:41:52AM +0100, Damon Allen Davison wrote: OS X is a bit of a problem in this regard. cdparanoia via Max is the best GUI solution, as far as I'm concerned, but the metadata goes missing. Using Max in combination with MusicBrainz' Picard tagger would probably work fine. I actually use cdparanoia on the command line to do my ripping. It's fairly trivial to code up a small chunk of code to convert, rename and tag the files one has ripped with CDParanoia. One might even use, oh I don't know, Perl.
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Peter Corlettab...@cabal.org.uk wrote: There are evil hacks you can do with smart playlists to let you manage the two separate copies. It's not exactly ideal though. Smart playlists and their hacky uses make itunes bearable. I have a 'checked' playlist, (where artist != keyboard slam, limit to checked songs only) so that I can ipod what I'm listening to, for example. I can't believe this isn't in built functionality. And no, I have no wish to learn applescript to interact with itunes. --James
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
Yeah, same here. The problem I'm running into now is ropey CDs where the skipping is really obvious, like actual repeating. Jumping on a spoken CD is pretty much intolerable, and it's annoying iTunes will produce that without warning. Does anyone know the Gracenote query URL? Is it even open access these days? That would solve the issue making Max useable. On Jul 29, 2009 11:34 AM, Robert Shiels rob...@se71.org wrote: Wow, so much legwork for such a small job. I've converted many hundreds of CDs to MP3 on Windows with iTunes, and have never had any problems with quality, and only minor issues with tagging. Maybe my standards are lower :-) /R Roger Burton West wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:41:52AM +0100, Damon Allen Davison wrote: ...
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
Why not just delete the b0rked tracks and top them up from alternative online sources? *ahem* On 27 Jul 2009, at 19:19, Paul Makepeace wrote: I've just discovered that iTunes will merrily rip CDs with errors and make no mention of this. Is there a way to have iTunes bail or retry on rip error? Or software that does? I remember when I was using Grip it would complain on errors which would prompt me to wipe the CD and have another go. It's irritating working thru a pile of CDs and then around town listening and realising there's glitches pops on them. Paul -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: Wow, so much legwork for such a small job. I've converted many hundreds of CDs to MP3 on Windows with iTunes, and have never had any problems with quality, and only minor issues with tagging. Depends on what you want to do. My objective is I will never have to rely on being able to read this rotting piece of mylar again. R
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
Yeah, this is my backup (as it were) plan. Id rather just have something that works to being with-realising it's bust when you're in Fiji on the beach is not ideal :) On Jul 29, 2009 12:08 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just delete the b0rked tracks and top them up from alternative online sources? *ahem* On 27 Jul 2009, at 19:19, Paul Makepeace wrote: I've just discovered that iTunes will merrily rip CDs with errors and make no mention of this. I... -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
OK, well if it's that intolerable, you stay here and I'll go to Fiji and suffer the skips. On 29 Jul 2009, at 12:20, Paul Makepeace wrote: Yeah, this is my backup (as it were) plan. Id rather just have something that works to being with-realising it's bust when you're in Fiji on the beach is not ideal :) On Jul 29, 2009 12:08 PM, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Why not just delete the b0rked tracks and top them up from alternative online sources? *ahem* On 27 Jul 2009, at 19:19, Paul Makepeace wrote: I've just discovered that iTunes will merrily rip CDs with errors and make no mention of this. I... -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
It's fairly trivial to code up a small chunk of code to convert, rename and tag the files one has ripped with CDParanoia. One might even use, oh I don't know, Perl. I know I do -- http://gist.github.com/158074 A little script I have that rips CDs with cdparanoia, gets the data from freedb, converts to AAC at 256kb VBR and then applies metadata using atomic parsley. (caveat - will not work for anyone out of the box, as I use a version of cdparanoia patched to be quieter) ps. Hello. I normally just lurk. ;) -- Norm.
Re: London.pm Technical Meeting 30th July 2009
On 29/07/2009 11:06, Victoria Conlan (vi...@comps.org) wrote: I won't be able to come along (too late to sign up now, and East Anglia trains have kindly decided to go on strike every Thurs/Fri of the next month or so!), but I'd love to hear what comes out of this one: Dave Cross - Why do so many companies re-invent well-known CPAN modules badly and end up writing far too much code? Any chance anyone is planning on taking some notes and putting them up on a website somewhere? :-D (please?) The slides will definitely be on Slideshare at some point - but I'll probably wait until after I've given the talk again in Lisbon next week. Dave...
Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw), but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 07:32 -0700, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. In the spirit/style of the original, are they going to result in anyone who watches them wanting all parties to die horribly in a fire? :) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Decent OS X audio rip software
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:23:50AM +0100, James Laver wrote: [...] And no, I have no wish to learn applescript to interact with itunes. A moment's Googling suggests Mac::AppleScript::Glue would help here.
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw), but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Cheers, Ovid Like the Java/Ruby on Rails thing of a few years ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo Adrian.
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw) , but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Yeah! Could do some filming in Lisbon? -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
Adrian Lai wrote: 2009/7/29 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw), but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Cheers, Ovid Like the Java/Ruby on Rails thing of a few years ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo Definitely interested. And I have a script for one kicking about.
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Are you seriously asking London Perl M[[ou]]ngers to pretend to be Java programmers? And to volunteer??? Chris.
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
- Original Message From: Adrian Lai p...@loathe.me.uk Like the Java/Ruby on Rails thing of a few years ago? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQbuyKUaKFo I had totally forgotten about those. I was thinking more along the lines of a very short series of jokes per language, bundled into one vid. For example: __ Smalltalk: I'm SmallTalk. Perl: I'm Perl. SmallTalk: I have reflection. Perl: I have a job. __ Ruby (little girl): I'm Ruby. Perl (old guy): I'm Perl. Ruby: Why can't I run with scissors? Perl: You'll understand when you're older. __ Python (Japanese): I'm Ruby. Perl: I'm Perl. Python: I'm a clean, modern language. Perl: Hey, you're Japanese. Don't you write that funny Kanji stuff? How can you read that? Python: Hey, it's a beautiful, expressive style of writing. It's not my fault if you've never troubled to learn it. Perl: My point. (Some points about Ruby's poor Unicode handling might be particularly *poignant* instead) __ Java (in straight jacket): I'm Java Perl: I'm Perl. Java: I can be trusted. I can't poke myself in the eye. Perl: (shakes his/her head and walks off) Java: Hey, come back! I need someone to scratch my nose! (OK, that sucked, but I have a vision of tons of Java developers in straight jackets. That starts implying budgets, though) __ Lisp: I'm Lisp. Perl: I'm Perl. Lisp: You're illegible. Perl: You're kidding, right? __ That's off the top of my head and not terribly funny, but that's the idea. A bunch of short, stupid jokes comparing some tiny aspect of various languages, all edited into one video. I see Mike Whitaker already has ideas. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
- Original Message From: Christopher Jones c.jo...@ucl.ac.uk Are you seriously asking London Perl M[[ou]]ngers to pretend to be Java programmers? And to volunteer??? Hey, some of my best friends are cross-dressers. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
* at 29/07 07:32 -0700 Ovid said: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) Isn't this just likely to turn out to be an exercise in poking a load of wasps nests? Struan
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I don't think my Web cam provides *quite* the video quality I'm looking for :) I can do the the script writing (example: http://vimeo.com/1424008) and the video editing (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3-ZUagzrjw), but if others want to chip in, that would be awesome. Would anyone be interested in working with me on this project, or perhaps make it a Sponsored by London.pm thing? I already have ideas for small sample scripts for a number of languages (one has a Java programmer in a straight jacket bragging about how he's never poked himself in the eye). Volunteer actors would be welcome, too. Interestingly, I am planning to go to the Metropolitan Film Schools Weekend intensive/intro weekend in September (www.metfilmschool.co.uk) as part of preparation for a longer term project I am working on so would be quite interested in getting some practice in. Apparently Red Cameras are all the buzz in the film schools at the moment, however I'm not about to cough out any money at this stage... Chris PS I'm doing a one mile swim at Weymouth on August 9 on behalf of the British Heart Foundation. If anyone fancies sponsoring me, please go to http://original.justgiving.com/chrisjack _ Windows Live Messenger: Happy 10-Year Anniversary—get free winks and emoticons. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On 29 Jul 2009, at 16:50, Struan Donald wrote: * at 29/07 07:32 -0700 Ovid said: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) Isn't this just likely to turn out to be an exercise in poking a load of wasps nests? It's called marketing. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On 29 Jul 2009, at 15:32, Ovid wrote: On the off chance that anyone here is interested, I thought it would be fun to produce a small parody of the I'm a PC/I'm a Mac ads. Basically, it would be a series of video shorts along the lines of I'm Java/I'm Perl, I'm Ruby/I'm Perl, etc. All in good fun, of course :) I have a DV cam, tripod and white wall. Can blag a pro mike. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
- Original Message From: Struan Donald str...@exo.org.uk Isn't this just likely to turn out to be an exercise in poking a load of wasps nests? I certainly hope so. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
- Original Message From: Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com I have a DV cam, tripod and white wall. Can blag a pro mike. All sounds awesome except for the white wall. Would be nice to find interesting settings which make people think WTF? Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras
On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:10, Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com I have a DV cam, tripod and white wall. Can blag a pro mike. All sounds awesome except for the white wall. Would be nice to find interesting settings which make people think WTF? Whatever. You're the creative. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://davehodg.blogspot.com Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
