Do I Ask For Too Much?
Most of my CD collection is ripped into OGG files. I have an ad hoc set of perl scripts to edit the Vorbis comments, search them, play the search results, plus load them into my iRiver. With MP3 files one is limited to a strict set of comments, including one genre. The Vorbis comments to the OGG files is a key value set that allows the same key to have many values. One song could be labeled with many genres, and I usually did. Glenn Miller’s Moonlight Serenade is in the genres: “Big Band”, “Swing”, and also my own special genre “relax”, My “relax” genre is a exclusive set of songs that help me lower my blood presure. Loaded this song into KDE’s amarok, not only can I only edit the first genre labled, but all other “genre” tags are wiped out when I do so. It tries to fit the very flexable Vorbis comment structure into the limited MP3 structure. KDE’s Juk produced similar results.
I told Daphne about this problem, she said I ask for too much. I, one the other hand, am just trying to stop using the keyboard so much and not go not resort my entire music collection. So, is there a solution? Do I go back to my ad hoc scripts? Do I ask for too much? Does this sound like a bad Sex, and the City parody?
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One could always create a play list called relax. iTunes lets you create as many as one would (practically) want. Of course, you can also randomize your play of contents of any play list or order it as you wish.
There might also be something to be said for not requiring the comments to be stored with the music file; in this way, you get the functionality one wants regardless of the type of file and one gets to incorporate several file compression types into whatever scheme one wishes to create….
Comment by aps — September 9, 2006 @ 15:33 GMT
I don’t mind so much not having my “relax” genre, but some songs just fit into more then one genre. I think Glen Miller is both Big Band and Swing, but no more.
I’ve started using KDE’s amarok 1.4.1. I know there is a newer one, bit I’m going to try to stick with Debian’s KDE software.
Learning a GUI is hard. I’ve been sitting in front of a Mac at work for over a year now and I think I’ve finally got the hang of it. So I start using KDE at home, all to make my carpals feel better.
Comment by sven — September 19, 2006 @ 15:25 GMT