While I do have nice clean OCD-edited tags on all my files, search doesn't really matter much to me. What I want is something that's nice and small, basic UI I could tweak to show coverart (all albums have art too :P ), and, this is the key thing, "Random by album" playback. Foobar and iPod/iTunes are the only things I've ever found with random by album.
*edit*Premising, but does it do random by album?
Foobar also has such a stupidly amazing skin system:
I have been using FuBar for a while now. Sounds great, not overly cluttered and does not seem to hog system resources which is important when I want to have something playing in the background as I stalk prey in BGs.
Econ... yea... you don't know how many times I've tried to explain to some stupid kid in my guild that, just because you mined all that ore for free, you're losing money crafting it up into armor to sell. I mean, simple economics, if the mats can be sold for 60g, and the gloves go for 55g, you are losing money crafting.
On that account... I've actually learned more about econ in WoW than I ever did in freaking class. My teacher gave me 38%, on my final I had nothing more than
"I am really sorry I could write more than I have, but honestly, with all the goodwill in the world, this course just can't get into my head, it strikes me as confusing, overly complex while it could be done quite simple - but then again the Belgian state has to be retarded about anyone making any money. I really do apologize, but happy new year to you anyhow."
Something in those lines was all I wrote on my finals and I got 38% :P I saw the teacher a year or so back, she always thought I hated her and asked me if I did. I never did, as person she was cool, just the subject she was teaching me I hated with a passion. But WoW made me see *some* good side to it, although Accountancy - I can't see a benefit from. Well, you keep your bills and all that, but meh. We had to use this lil "cheatsheet" thing with a shitload of codes on it depending on in which category what fell and other crap - no one ever explained to me how to use it. So on accountancy finals I wrote my name and went to sleep. (Or just went home)
On that account... I've actually learned more about econ in WoW than I ever did in freaking class.
For my economics class ("Honors," but we were disillusioned college students so it didn't mean much) we had to write one 5-7 page paper analyzing _something_ about an economy. Yes, it really was that vague.
I wrote mine on the WoW economy and pulled an A. ^_^
Blah, it said it on the main page, so I thought it did it. Sorry. :(
It does invoices, it just does them really badly :)
WoW's a great model for learning the basic principals of econ. The system is more constrained than the "real world". There's a finite number of currency inflows (quest rewards, mob cash) and resource inflows (gathering professions, mob drops, quest rewards), and outflows (repairs, buying vendor items, soulbinding (similar to depreciation), AH fees, consumable items). Everyone has equal opportunity, there are no monopolies. Events like the recent season 3 launch show supply and demand (enchanting mats doubled in price on my server for a few days...) Really it's a nice system that can be used to give more concrete examples, and there's a good chance high school kids will relate to it.
I was running Foobear but it didn't fit into my nice OCD desktop layout with the non resizeable frame so I did a wee dance for joy when Foolars appeared.
OCD rules:
* Completed stuff is moved to the server, if it's not complete then it stays on my box or in downloads
* Only complete albums, never singles unless they're a unreleased remix, but those don't go in with the tagged music
* Musicbrainz Picard is your friend, makes shit a lot easier.
* Must always have a good quality (200px+) cover image, saved as folder.jpg
* Files must play correctly. If I find a skippy file I pull it back off the server
* Multi-disc album are tagged without the "Disc 1" in the title, the the DISCNUMBER tag instead
* Multi-disc track numbers restart at 1 on each disc (it's not one big disc)
* Album Artist field is used if the disc is a compilation of many artists songs (techno much?) This lets me properly display that "Lamentation [trinity remix with Enigma & Lisa Gerrard]" by Delerium is on "Ambient Nights VIP2 - A Symphony of Ambience[sic] in Cm" by Alex Haphaestion... but also NOT display the artist name on the track if the whole album is by the same artist
* Don't care about Genre, the whole idea is too vague
* Date is neat, but not something I generally care about
* Titles not in English are tagged their native language. I don't speak Japanese, so romanjii titles are as useless as kanjii ones, but kanjii is cooler looking.
* Folder structure: <artist>\<album (disc #)> It's a minor thing, I never access it directly anyway, I just queue everything and play with album-random on
* Soundtracks (compilations, not composed scores) go in the "Soundtracks" folder instead of an artist one
* Compilations with no distinct album artist (no "Mixed by:" credits) go in "Various Artists" instead of artist name
Now lets see how OCD am I? I have 24 GiB of music finished on the server, 1GiB untagged on my box, and 12 GiB sitting in downloads I've not even touched. And god knows how much old stuff I've not sifted thru yet, most of it's prolly corrupted or such bad quality I won't keep it anyway.
I once tried an auto sorter type of thing, shoved every file into it's own folder. Needless to say I was NOT pleased. I should work on the music, some was done, but I should put it all in one huge folder, and shove them into a different folder when done.
PS. <3 you for mentioning Picard... Will make tagging easier, thank you.
My collection would drive tek nuts. It's half ordered by decade, and half by my ideas of genre. It works for me, but I would feel for anyone else who tried to find anything. :)
OCD rules:
* Completed stuff is moved to the server, if it's not complete then it stays on my box or in downloads
* Only complete albums, never singles unless they're a unreleased remix, but those don't go in with the tagged music
* Musicbrainz Picard is your friend, makes shit a lot easier.
* Must always have a good quality (200px+) cover image, saved as folder.jpg
* Files must play correctly. If I find a skippy file I pull it back off the server
* Multi-disc album are tagged without the "Disc 1" in the title, the the DISCNUMBER tag instead
* Multi-disc track numbers restart at 1 on each disc (it's not one big disc)
* Album Artist field is used if the disc is a compilation of many artists songs (techno much?) This lets me properly display that "Lamentation [trinity remix with Enigma & Lisa Gerrard]" by Delerium is on "Ambient Nights VIP2 - A Symphony of Ambience[sic] in Cm" by Alex Haphaestion... but also NOT display the artist name on the track if the whole album is by the same artist
* Don't care about Genre, the whole idea is too vague
* Date is neat, but not something I generally care about
* Titles not in English are tagged their native language. I don't speak Japanese, so romanjii titles are as useless as kanjii ones, but kanjii is cooler looking.
* Folder structure: <artist>\<album (disc #)> It's a minor thing, I never access it directly anyway, I just queue everything and play with album-random on
* Soundtracks (compilations, not composed scores) go in the "Soundtracks" folder instead of an artist one
* Compilations with no distinct album artist (no "Mixed by:" credits) go in "Various Artists" instead of artist name
Now lets see how OCD am I? I have 24 GiB of music finished on the server, 1GiB untagged on my box, and 12 GiB sitting in downloads I've not even touched. And god knows how much old stuff I've not sifted thru yet, most of it's prolly corrupted or such bad quality I won't keep it anyway.
You basically just described my MP3 collection, right down to not really worrying about genre or date, but I rip 600x600 cover art from iTunes.
I personally use vim (screeny). Might have a little bit too steep learning curve for most people tho'. It's also cross-platform.
This screenshot sparked my interest for vim again. Currently I use XEmacs, and vim only for quick editing. You have some nice setup though, and I discovered the folding options in vim, which are really nice. Could you tell how you turned on those vertical lines that emphasize the nesting? That's also something very useful.
OCD rules:
* Completed stuff is moved to the server, if it's not complete then it stays on my box or in downloads
* Only complete albums, never singles unless they're a unreleased remix, but those don't go in with the tagged music
* Musicbrainz Picard is your friend, makes shit a lot easier.
* Must always have a good quality (200px+) cover image, saved as folder.jpg
* Files must play correctly. If I find a skippy file I pull it back off the server
* Multi-disc album are tagged without the "Disc 1" in the title, the the DISCNUMBER tag instead
* Multi-disc track numbers restart at 1 on each disc (it's not one big disc)
* Album Artist field is used if the disc is a compilation of many artists songs (techno much?) This lets me properly display that "Lamentation [trinity remix with Enigma & Lisa Gerrard]" by Delerium is on "Ambient Nights VIP2 - A Symphony of Ambience[sic] in Cm" by Alex Haphaestion... but also NOT display the artist name on the track if the whole album is by the same artist
* Don't care about Genre, the whole idea is too vague
* Date is neat, but not something I generally care about
* Titles not in English are tagged their native language. I don't speak Japanese, so romanjii titles are as useless as kanjii ones, but kanjii is cooler looking.
* Folder structure: <artist>\<album (disc #)> It's a minor thing, I never access it directly anyway, I just queue everything and play with album-random on
* Soundtracks (compilations, not composed scores) go in the "Soundtracks" folder instead of an artist one
* Compilations with no distinct album artist (no "Mixed by:" credits) go in "Various Artists" instead of artist name
Haha that's pretty funny, and I thought I was OCD. My steps are a bit simpler:
- New music goes into Received Files
- Loaded into MediaMonkey where I pull the cd info/art off Amazon
- Rename the files to Artist - Trackname
- Run MP3Gain to level the volume
- Into My Music folder, deleted from MediaMonkey and added to iTunes
Now that everyone has talked so much about notepad++ I have now downloaded it also and to tell you the fact, I am very pleased with it. It is a lot more robust and feature filled then LuaEdit 3.0. I wanted to thank you all in this community for making me a part of it and also for helping another programmer out there. Thanks to all who posted here with their ideas and comments, I have enjoyed reading them all.
Thanks,
Orionsfather
P.S. My son's name is Orions, Hence I am Orionsfather... :)
It's quite a decent topic, this one. It forced me to try and solve my old laptop's issues and install Ubuntu. It's a PII 333MHz, 256MB Ram, 12GB HDD, and it runs Ubuntu 6.06. Needless to say, fast is something else ;) I miss it though, going to switch to Xubuntu or Slack, I hoped I could get more performance out of this tiny old pc with a different distro. Anyone want to recommend a distro? I prefer to have a minimal GUI, xfce would suffice ;) I just want to beable to use IRC, Firefox (or Galeon).. Ya know..
It's quite a decent topic, this one. It forced me to try and solve my old laptop's issues and install Ubuntu. It's a PII 333MHz, 256MB Ram, 12GB HDD, and it runs Ubuntu 6.06. Needless to say, fast is something else ;) I miss it though, going to switch to Xubuntu or Slack, I hoped I could get more performance out of this tiny old pc with a different distro. Anyone want to recommend a distro? I prefer to have a minimal GUI, xfce would suffice ;) I just want to beable to use IRC, Firefox (or Galeon).. Ya know..
Well you could install Xfce on Ubuntu, might give you the performance boost you need. Xfce is not the best for a minimal GUI though, try IceWM or fvwm, they're good and lighter than full-fledged desktop environments. Not saying those are the lightest around, but they are the ones I used myself.
As far as distros go, if you're not afraid of using text files for configuration, Gentoo is great and gives you full control over your system. It compensates for the lack of graphical configuration by excellent documentation and a very helpful community, so give it a go. :)
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Foobar also has such a stupidly amazing skin system:
http://i9.tinypic.com/854qe1i.jpg
Nothing else I've found allows this much customization, I can't get enough!
I have been using FuBar for a while now. Sounds great, not overly cluttered and does not seem to hog system resources which is important when I want to have something playing in the background as I stalk prey in BGs.
On that account... I've actually learned more about econ in WoW than I ever did in freaking class. My teacher gave me 38%, on my final I had nothing more than
"I am really sorry I could write more than I have, but honestly, with all the goodwill in the world, this course just can't get into my head, it strikes me as confusing, overly complex while it could be done quite simple - but then again the Belgian state has to be retarded about anyone making any money. I really do apologize, but happy new year to you anyhow."
Something in those lines was all I wrote on my finals and I got 38% :P I saw the teacher a year or so back, she always thought I hated her and asked me if I did. I never did, as person she was cool, just the subject she was teaching me I hated with a passion. But WoW made me see *some* good side to it, although Accountancy - I can't see a benefit from. Well, you keep your bills and all that, but meh. We had to use this lil "cheatsheet" thing with a shitload of codes on it depending on in which category what fell and other crap - no one ever explained to me how to use it. So on accountancy finals I wrote my name and went to sleep. (Or just went home)
Oooh what skin is that?
The only reason I stay with Winamp is because of my happy multimedia key laziness on my logi keyboard, last I checked FooBar didn't support it ...
For my economics class ("Honors," but we were disillusioned college students so it didn't mean much) we had to write one 5-7 page paper analyzing _something_ about an economy. Yes, it really was that vague.
I wrote mine on the WoW economy and pulled an A. ^_^
http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/FooLars-67294987
There's probably a plugin for the keyboard too, there's one for just about everything else including kitchen sinks.
It does invoices, it just does them really badly :)
WoW's a great model for learning the basic principals of econ. The system is more constrained than the "real world". There's a finite number of currency inflows (quest rewards, mob cash) and resource inflows (gathering professions, mob drops, quest rewards), and outflows (repairs, buying vendor items, soulbinding (similar to depreciation), AH fees, consumable items). Everyone has equal opportunity, there are no monopolies. Events like the recent season 3 launch show supply and demand (enchanting mats doubled in price on my server for a few days...) Really it's a nice system that can be used to give more concrete examples, and there's a good chance high school kids will relate to it.
Mmmmm.... pretty....
*edit*
"FooBear" oh fuck, I must install now.
*reedit*
http://lassekongo83.deviantart.com/art/FooBear-65777342
God damn it's plotting against me. I have BSG S2 soundtrack playing right now...
eg. Zz Top - Sharp Dressed man .. genre : Blues LOL ... Yeah.
OCD rules:
* Completed stuff is moved to the server, if it's not complete then it stays on my box or in downloads
* Only complete albums, never singles unless they're a unreleased remix, but those don't go in with the tagged music
* Musicbrainz Picard is your friend, makes shit a lot easier.
* Must always have a good quality (200px+) cover image, saved as folder.jpg
* Files must play correctly. If I find a skippy file I pull it back off the server
* Multi-disc album are tagged without the "Disc 1" in the title, the the DISCNUMBER tag instead
* Multi-disc track numbers restart at 1 on each disc (it's not one big disc)
* Album Artist field is used if the disc is a compilation of many artists songs (techno much?) This lets me properly display that "Lamentation [trinity remix with Enigma & Lisa Gerrard]" by Delerium is on "Ambient Nights VIP2 - A Symphony of Ambience[sic] in Cm" by Alex Haphaestion... but also NOT display the artist name on the track if the whole album is by the same artist
* Don't care about Genre, the whole idea is too vague
* Date is neat, but not something I generally care about
* Titles not in English are tagged their native language. I don't speak Japanese, so romanjii titles are as useless as kanjii ones, but kanjii is cooler looking.
* Folder structure: <artist>\<album (disc #)> It's a minor thing, I never access it directly anyway, I just queue everything and play with album-random on
* Soundtracks (compilations, not composed scores) go in the "Soundtracks" folder instead of an artist one
* Compilations with no distinct album artist (no "Mixed by:" credits) go in "Various Artists" instead of artist name
Now lets see how OCD am I? I have 24 GiB of music finished on the server, 1GiB untagged on my box, and 12 GiB sitting in downloads I've not even touched. And god knows how much old stuff I've not sifted thru yet, most of it's prolly corrupted or such bad quality I won't keep it anyway.
I once tried an auto sorter type of thing, shoved every file into it's own folder. Needless to say I was NOT pleased. I should work on the music, some was done, but I should put it all in one huge folder, and shove them into a different folder when done.
PS. <3 you for mentioning Picard... Will make tagging easier, thank you.
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Curse PremiumYou basically just described my MP3 collection, right down to not really worrying about genre or date, but I rip 600x600 cover art from iTunes.
I dread downloading new music. :c
This screenshot sparked my interest for vim again. Currently I use XEmacs, and vim only for quick editing. You have some nice setup though, and I discovered the folding options in vim, which are really nice. Could you tell how you turned on those vertical lines that emphasize the nesting? That's also something very useful.
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Curse Premiumyou don't need the ",trail:?" part for the nesting.
Ah, I thought it's a specific option in vim, but this is a clever way to do it, thanks! :)
Haha that's pretty funny, and I thought I was OCD. My steps are a bit simpler:
- New music goes into Received Files
- Loaded into MediaMonkey where I pull the cd info/art off Amazon
- Rename the files to Artist - Trackname
- Run MP3Gain to level the volume
- Into My Music folder, deleted from MediaMonkey and added to iTunes
Thanks,
Orionsfather
P.S. My son's name is Orions, Hence I am Orionsfather... :)
Well you could install Xfce on Ubuntu, might give you the performance boost you need. Xfce is not the best for a minimal GUI though, try IceWM or fvwm, they're good and lighter than full-fledged desktop environments. Not saying those are the lightest around, but they are the ones I used myself.
As far as distros go, if you're not afraid of using text files for configuration, Gentoo is great and gives you full control over your system. It compensates for the lack of graphical configuration by excellent documentation and a very helpful community, so give it a go. :)