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Poster: | Jonathan Aizen | Date: | Feb 11, 2004 7:53am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: Now available: File metadata entry interface |
Cool
I do wonder about the "clean" button on the setlist field though - I'd never seen that before; what exactly is it supposed to do?
It is supposed to take some standard setlist formats and clean them up. On some setlists it breaks, but on others it automatically does what normally has to be done manually (i.e. removes the notes, removes track times, etc.).
Also, how *exactly* will the metadata be used if we don't specify lossy downloads?
For the time being, the track titles will be shown on the details page so you can know which track you're downloading when you chose to download an individual track (instead of having to look at the setlist and map it in your head).
A feature I have in mind is to click on the name of a song and get lots of information about it (compression ratio, length in time, size, title, artist, show, etc.). Metadata is always good to keep around.
Eventually, it could even be mined. You could find out how many shows by band X have the song Y in them, or how many shows were shorter than 30 minutes.
If I choose to put track numbers, song comments, etc., in the individual track names, is that ok, or will there eventually be some way of linking between or searching on tracks with the same name?
PLEASE don't do that - it violates the integrity of the metadata. Once this stabilizes, I'll add the ability to add whatever fields you want right in the interface (so for instance you could add a "comments" field and put whatever you want in it).
Good questions!
--Dave
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Poster: | greenone | Date: | Feb 11, 2004 10:52am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: Now available: File metadata entry interface |
This post was modified by greenone on 2004-02-11 18:52:11
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Poster: | Brad Leblanc 2 | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 12:11am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: Now available: File metadata entry interface |
Hmmm... I really *want* to put these in there - it makes it sooo much easier to look at the download links and know exactly what I'm getting - but at the same time I can see the value in being able to run reports against shows down the road.
From what Jon says, I gather that having a song that has metadata title "E: I Spy" will not be included in a report run looking for song's titled "I Spy". Same goes for the segue's.
I guess it's a tossup. Which is more important, the accuracy of the download links or the ability to run accurate reports? My vote is for the accuracy of the download links (include the >'s and E:'s)
-Brad
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Poster: | Brad Leblanc 2 | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 12:51am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | File metadata - minor Track Number bug?? |
This post was modified by bleblanc on 2004-02-14 08:51:09
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Poster: | Jonathan Aizen | Date: | Feb 18, 2004 11:49pm |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: File metadata - minor Track Number bug?? |
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Poster: | Jonathan Aizen | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 1:13am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: File metadata - minor Track Number bug?? |
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Poster: | Jonathan Aizen | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 1:13am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: Now available: File metadata entry interface |
Jon
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Poster: | Brad Leblanc 2 | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 1:56am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Mining ID Tags? |
Another question Jon. On all of my latest seeds I have been filling out ID tags for the FLAC files. Here's an example:
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=9155
I use FLAC Frontend to fill in all of the non-unique fields during the encoding process (Artist, Album, Year, Genre, Comment). Then, when it's done I use WinAmp to fill in the unique fields (Title, Track Number)
So, there's alot of info already embedded in the files in the format that I choose. Would it be possible to mine that data to automatically fill in the "File Options" fields? Or, if I fill out the "File Options" fields with different info will it overwrite the ID tags that the FLAC files were uploaded with?
Thanks.
-Brad
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Poster: | Jonathan Aizen | Date: | Feb 14, 2004 3:58am |
Forum: | etree | Subject: | Re: Mining ID Tags? |
I'm working on a way to read the information from the FLAC and MP3 ID3 tags to populate that form. The problem is that it takes time, yet people need to fill out the metadata for new shows when adding a new show (because they'll never come back to do it later). Anyway, it's on the table.
Jon