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,

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.

Re: Decent OS X audio rip software

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Roger Burton West 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

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

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 playlist

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 +0

Re: Decent OS X audio rip software

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Peter Corlett 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 != , lim

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 acces

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?

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

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" wrote: Why not just delete the b0rked tracks and top them up from alternative online

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

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 -- A little script I have that rips CDs with cdparanoia, gets the data from free

Re: Decent OS X audio rip software

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:00:21PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: [...] > 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". My collection of pressed CDs seem to be sufficiently durable that I'm not overly worried

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 ma

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 thi

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",

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 : > > 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, o

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

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

Adrian Lai wrote: 2009/7/29 Ovid : 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 g

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 h

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

- Original Message > From: Adrian Lai > 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.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

- Original Message > From: Christopher Jones > > 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

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 i

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 Pe

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/

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.

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

- Original Message > From: Struan Donald > > 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/j

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

- Original Message > From: Dave Hodgkinson > > 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.ore

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

On 29 Jul 2009, at 18:10, Ovid wrote: - Original Message From: Dave Hodgkinson 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. Yo

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

> From: Dave Hodgkinson > > > 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. I would very much like this to be a collaborative effort with others pro

Re: Straight Jackets and Video Cameras

Can we get a zombie (dead Perl) stealing the lunch of the japanese little girl? I have one of those tiny Xacti cameras that record straight to H.264, if it's any help. Cheers, Pedro