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The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.
The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.
I’d like to announce a MusicBrainz Pub Night in London Nov 30th at 6:30pm. If you’d like to meet Dave Evans and myself in person, chat about MusicBrainz and have a pint, please come join us. Right now I haven’t picked out a pub yet, so if you have a suggestion for a good pub … Continue reading “MusicBrainz Pub Night”
I’d like to announce a MusicBrainz Pub Night in London Nov 30th at 6:30pm.
If you’d like to meet Dave Evans and myself in person, chat about MusicBrainz and have a pint, please come join us. Right now I haven’t picked out a pub yet, so if you have a suggestion for a good pub (should be a classic pub, large enough to handle 6 – 10 of us, not too noisy), please leave a comment.
So, who can make it?
In the last couple of days I’ve stuffed Lucene into Picard and it has given me some quite amazing results. I’ve opened a collection of untagged files and watched it open the right albums and populate it with tags automatically. Mind you, none of the tags were previously tagged with MB ids. Plain amazing! I … Continue reading “Lucene enabled Picard”
In the last couple of days I’ve stuffed Lucene into Picard and it has given me some quite amazing results. I’ve opened a collection of untagged files and watched it open the right albums and populate it with tags automatically. Mind you, none of the tags were previously tagged with MB ids. Plain amazing!
I have this hip-hop compilation that my friend put together and its utter crap — duplicates, many files without tags, crappy spelling and mostly from greatest hits albums. Ick. The original tagger identified less than 15% of the tracks. The new tagger identifies 50% – 60% of the tracks — that’s a really good rate for this crappy collection.
The annotations work I’ve been talking about over the last few days is now live on the test server. Please have a play and let me know what you think. Is it too limited? Does the page layout need tweaking? Maybe the way the moderations work isn’t quite right? All feedback gratefully received.
The annotations work I’ve been talking about over the last few days is now live on the test server. Please have a play and let me know what you think. Is it too limited? Does the page layout need tweaking? Maybe the way the moderations work isn’t quite right? All feedback gratefully received.
I decided that I wanted to put together a comprehensive test of Lucene so I could show how powerful, fast and accurate Lucene is. This is just a simple Python script that is not integrated to the rest of MusicBrainz — it doesn’t even touch the Postgres DB! My little test is hosted in the … Continue reading “I did mention that Lucene rocks, right?”
I decided that I wanted to put together a comprehensive test of Lucene so I could show how powerful, fast and accurate Lucene is. This is just a simple Python script that is not integrated to the rest of MusicBrainz — it doesn’t even touch the Postgres DB!
My little test is hosted in the staging server — the DNS should’ve propagated by now. Come check it out:
Following on the Annotations work, I’ve now got it automatically handling artist / album merges and deletes, which was one of my main concerns before. I think this makes it just about ready to test. It’s a very simple feature, which is possibly one reason why I think it will work – I’m not sure … Continue reading “Annotations, part II”
Following on the Annotations work, I’ve now got it automatically handling artist / album merges and deletes, which was one of my main concerns before. I think this makes it just about ready to test. It’s a very simple feature, which is possibly one reason why I think it will work – I’m not sure it needs to be any more complex – not for the first release anyway.
Update: see the Wiki for documentation.
I have Picard starting up on Gentoo linux! Finally sorted out some permission problems and got the last of the requirements installed, and it runs! Well, almost. I can’t actually do anything; dragging files has no effect, the application complains a bit and won’t shut down properly; but still, progress! On the Mac, I’ve managed … Continue reading “Trod trod trod”
I have Picard starting up on Gentoo linux! Finally sorted out some permission problems and got the last of the requirements installed, and it runs! Well, almost. I can’t actually do anything; dragging files has no effect, the application complains a bit and won’t shut down properly; but still, progress! On the Mac, I’ve managed to work around some Python issues with respect to case insensitive filesystems, but now wxPython won’t compile, so I’ve taken a break from that and turned to the Windows front: I’m installing Windows XP into a VirtualPC as I write.
As an aside, I’ve almost got the my MusicBrainz test server up and running again, having some issues with the database import though. I forgot how many perl modules you need to install to get this thing running, but it only has to happen once.
Started work on the effort to move the official style guidelines to the Wiki. Created a Wiki page mimicing the current Official Style Guidelines page, it’s still a bit rough and I need to work on the formatting, but it’s there. Also started work on the style pages from the main site out of CVS, … Continue reading “Style Guidelines Work”
Started work on the effort to move the official style guidelines to the Wiki. Created a Wiki page mimicing the current Official Style Guidelines page, it’s still a bit rough and I need to work on the formatting, but it’s there. Also started work on the style pages from the main site out of CVS, but realised I can’t get too far without a working running version of the MB server – viewing the raw html file in the browser doesn’t get all the Mason code. Setting up the server is a job for tomorrow.
Mac OS X: I’ve decided Fink can suck er .. something rancid, and I’ve gone down the path of compiling everything from scratch, including gtk+2 and all of its dependancies, and Python. Now that I’ve got that all out of the way, it turns out that OS X has it’s own version of Python, and … Continue reading “They're not barriers, they're challenges”
Mac OS X: I’ve decided Fink can suck er .. something rancid, and I’ve gone down the path of compiling everything from scratch, including gtk+2 and all of its dependancies, and Python. Now that I’ve got that all out of the way, it turns out that OS X has it’s own version of Python, and this version of Python doesn’t play ball with the ctypes package. Ah well, getting closer, slowly.
This evening I’m taking another look at the “Annotations” work done by Matthias a while back. It’s pretty near complete – he did a good job. Now I’ve just got to polish off a couple of rough edges and merge it back into the CVS trunk. I think we should be able to throw this … Continue reading “Annotations”
This evening I’m taking another look at the “Annotations” work done by Matthias a while back. It’s pretty near complete – he did a good job. Now I’ve just got to polish off a couple of rough edges and merge it back into the CVS trunk. I think we should be able to throw this one open for testing pretty soon.