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LastInLine posted:Who hasn't ripped their CDs by now? Hell they're not even putting optical drives in computers anymore so if you haven't yet it might be a good time to start. It's me, I'm the guy. It's mainly stuff I don't listen to much, but I don't really have the time or inclination to sit through the process, so if there was an easy way of getting them magically computerfied I'd be pretty happy. Plus some of the stuff I *did* rip was in the format of the future, OGG
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Cruseydr posted:I missed the boat since my CDs were stolen out of my vehicle back in like 2003 =( I tried to rip stuff before that without much luck (lovely drive probably) and would have had crappy quality 128kbps files left from them if I did. baka kaba posted:It's me, I'm the guy. It's mainly stuff I don't listen to much, but I don't really have the time or inclination to sit through the process, so if there was an easy way of getting them magically computerfied I'd be pretty happy. Plus some of the stuff I *did* rip was in the format of the future, OGG  which is what everybody did and why most people's metadata is poo poo which leads to even worse ideas like having your music player read from a folder structure.
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Nov 14, 2012 22:54
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LastInLine posted:even worse ideas like having your music player read from a folder structure. Hey, I do this.  Seriously though, I like to browse my music by artist rather than by album and I've yet to come across a decent media player which uses the goddamn album artist rather than the track artist, which makes this utterly unworkable any other way. So, for now, I keep my music in folders of "<artist> - <album>" format. All the metadata is still correct for the day when this gets fixed. PowerAmp keeps promising it for v3 though, so there's hope yet. I can't say I've come across that but then so far as I know PowerAmp uses its own media library separate from Android's. VVV rolleyes fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Nov 14, 2012 |
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Nov 14, 2012 23:05
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rolleyes posted:Hey, I do this. I guess it's more a chicken and egg problem in that there's a lot of bad metadata so let's make a player that ignores metadata which means there's no incentive to correct the metadata which leads to a lot of bad metadata.
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Nov 14, 2012 23:12
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LastInLine posted:How hard is it? Put the CD in, iTunes automatically does literally everything, CD pops out, insert next CD? Of course the even easier way was Well I just ripped a CD and it took 10 minutes, so it means sitting there, swapping each of 100 or however many CDs I haven't ripped over the span of many hours, even longer if I'm not hanging around ready to swap discs the moment they're done. It's just a bit of a project I've not been motivated to take on
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Nov 14, 2012 23:31
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baka kaba posted:Well I just ripped a CD and it took 10 minutes, so it means sitting there, swapping each of 100 or however many CDs I haven't ripped over the span of many hours, even longer if I'm not hanging around ready to swap discs the moment they're done. It's just a bit of a project I've not been motivated to take on
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Nov 14, 2012 23:51
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Here's a semi related question, sorry if its too off topic. I have an HTC thunderbolt, and when I bluetooth my phone to my car stereo, the quality is kinda bad. It sound kinda balances between am and fm radio quality. The music is coming directly from winamp, but Ive tried others like pandora and audiogalaxy and the output quality is the same. Is this just how bluetooth is? Anyways, speaking of apps, is there any other app that works just like audiogalaxy? Its a really good program, but I don't like the fact that I have to constantly make playlist, and it just does'nt play the next track automatically. not to mention there's no compilation option to group multiple artists on an album. Thanks in advance guys.
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Nov 14, 2012 23:53
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Dr Blah PhD posted:Here's a semi related question, sorry if its too off topic. Whatever HTC uses for BT loving blows. My Sensation was god drat terrible. It cleared up quite a bit when I went to CM though.
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Nov 15, 2012 00:06
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Whatever HTC uses for BT loving blows. My Sensation was god drat terrible. It cleared up quite a bit when I went to CM though.
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Nov 15, 2012 00:15
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baka kaba posted:Well I just ripped a CD and it took 10 minutes, so it means sitting there, swapping each of 100 or however many CDs I haven't ripped over the span of many hours, even longer if I'm not hanging around ready to swap discs the moment they're done. It's just a bit of a project I've not been motivated to take on Just rip whilst you play the next time you play any CD that hasn't been ripped already. You'll chip away at it over time without any bother.
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Question to the phone goons. Is there a simple (or even semi simple) way to import google play apps onto a Kindle Fire? I did a basic google search and got the impression that amazon locked them down and the only solution is to delve way deep into the ap or kindle os. Assuming this has likely come up in the past from the phone-illiterate, a reference back to about where in the 240+ pages would be very appreciated
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Nov 15, 2012 00:45
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I have mine id3 tagged as well as put them into an intricate folder structure, mostly because I'm  . That way I can find individual files if I have to mix something, or put a song in a video or some such thing, and have everything nice, neat, and organized. And long ago, I found that someone else painstakingly ripped a CD that I already owned, so I took tho that medium for a good long while. Now I just don't buy new music. Because it's all terrible  Sgt Froggy posted:Is there a simple (or even semi simple) way to import google play apps onto a Kindle Fire? The only way to get them on there is to root your Kindle, and then put a CFW on there, or side-load the App Store through ADB. There are several resources available for doing this, and they aren't incredibly difficult, but if it's your first time messing with rooting an Android device, it can be quite tedious. Here's a Start - For best results type in your specific firmware version. Illuminado fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 15, 2012 |
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Nov 15, 2012 01:00
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Fair warning for other folks, though I'm not sure how common this combination is. I have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus running Cyanogen (randomly updated, usually once per week or so) with Untappd. When I take a photo to upload with my beer check in, SOMETHING in the Untappd and Camera interface creates a zero byte image file. Not really a huge problem, since I don't care about the image, but the Android Media Server app gets stuck on these and quickly destroys my battery. The phone also gets noticeably hot. If I delete the file and reboot, the problem doesn't come back, and if I don't take a photo using the app, the problem never starts. Good times.
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Nov 15, 2012 02:35
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I recently had to factory reset my Verizon GNex, and now have CM 10.0 on it. I just got the updated Google Voice app, but I can't remember what I had to do to make it work as my voice mail provider. The voice mail setting in the device menu just tell see you carrier isn't compatible.
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hooah posted:I recently had to factory reset my Verizon GNex, and now have CM 10.0 on it. I just got the updated Google Voice app, but I can't remember what I had to do to make it work as my voice mail provider. The voice mail setting in the device menu just tell see you carrier isn't compatible. It's in your phone settings.
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Nov 15, 2012 05:05
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A big thing with my generation in Australia is MSN Messenger(Windows Live) Group Chats, are there any 3rd party clients that do these well? I would love an app that integrates the preset group chats from the MSN Messenger client + facebook chat.
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Nov 15, 2012 05:33
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GateheaD posted:A big thing with my generation in Australia is MSN Messenger(Windows Live) Group Chats, are there any 3rd party clients that do these well? MSN/Windows Live Messenger is being discontinued in favor of Skype: "On November 6, 2012, Microsoft announced that Windows Live Messenger will be retired in favor of Skype worldwide except mainland China. Users using Windows Live Messenger are able to merge their Microsoft account with their Skype account, allowing them to communicate with their Messenger contacts via the Skype clients. Users will have until the first quarter of 2013 to make the transition." You might want to do that and get your friends to do it to. Then you can simply use the Skype app apparently: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA...rstPage=false#4
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I don't think skype even does group messaging, I know if I receive a group message when signed into skype it just comes up as a 1 on 1 chat with the person who typed it. I guess we'll move to IRC or something, which will be a problem for the low-techs.
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Nov 15, 2012 05:46
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GateheaD posted:I don't think skype even does group messaging, I know if I receive a group message when signed into skype it just comes up as a 1 on 1 chat with the person who typed it. Facebook Messenger and whatever they're calling the messaging part of Google Plus are much better alternatives.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hs.ime.aosp Someone ported the 4.2 keyboard to 4.1. I'm using it to type this post and this is kind of addicting... I know I could just use Swype, but this is nicer for me. I think I'll definitely use this when I get the Nexus 4. Good to know that others can use it too. I think it can pull from gmail on its own.
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GateheaD posted:I don't think skype even does group messaging, I know if I receive a group message when signed into skype it just comes up as a 1 on 1 chat with the person who typed it. Skype does group messaging just fine. Not sure why you're having issues, but I've used it (not very succesfully) even in 8 person chats before.
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LastInLine posted:which leads to even worse ideas like having your music player read from a folder structure. How exactly am I supposed to organize it? Why does it not make sense to organize by folder structure? I think letting a program handle it all for me is a terrible idea. And yes I have a decent sized collection.
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rolleyes posted:Hey, I do this. Not an Android app (though you can use it as a music server and listen through BubbleUPNP), but foobar2000 does this. You can set your library up however you please, even down to if statements and boolean logic. I have mine set up as Artist (except for everything tagged Various or Soundtrack or in the Various folder - these go to the end by Album Title) then Albums by Year. It baffles my mind that most (all?) media players sort albums by year by default.
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:How exactly am I supposed to organize it? Why does it not make sense to organize by folder structure? I think letting a program handle it all for me is a terrible idea. And yes I have a decent sized collection. I think what he's getting at is that you should have proper ID3 tags on all your music files, so that they can be read universally by different programs. Having a structured folder system is great, but it's no substitute for correct metadata on all your music.
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bvoid posted:I think what he's getting at is that you should have proper ID3 tags on all your music files, so that they can be read universally by different programs. Having a structured folder system is great, but it's no substitute for correct metadata on all your music.
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LastInLine posted:Exactly. Proper metadata means you can treat your music like a database with the ability to search by attribute and construct playlists based on that. There's nothing wrong with organized music, there's something wrong if the player uses that organization to do its job. I'm still glad that PowerAmp has the folder view because if it didn't I'd have no way to browse my music in the way I want to - this way I can use the folder structure to compensate for the library not being capable of what I need. As I said earlier, my metadata is correct as well and I'm crossing my fingers that view by album artist will make it into PowerAmp 3. Where I would agree with you is that if a music player only works by browsing folders then yeah, that's not great.
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rolleyes posted:I'm still glad that PowerAmp has the folder view because if it didn't I'd have no way to browse my music in the way I want to - this way I can use the folder structure to compensate for the library not being capable of what I need. As I said earlier, my metadata is correct as well and I'm crossing my fingers that view by album artist will make it into PowerAmp 3. The positive in this is since iCloud it's not like iOS music playback doesn't have its frustrations too so yay none of us win.
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So what's everyone's preferred solution for checking/fixing metadata before I upload my
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Cakefool posted:So what's everyone's preferred solution for checking/fixing metadata before I upload my The problem is that Android's media scanner is garbage. That's why I'm *hoping* a Google Play Music matching service will fix the issues but let's not get crazy.
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I use mp3tag on my desktop to make sure everything is good before uploading to Google Music. Even then some albums are all hosed up on the play site.
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Cakefool posted:So what's everyone's preferred solution for checking/fixing metadata before I upload my I use the free version of MediaMonkey on my PC partly out of apathy and partly because it can auto-tag albums by looking them up on Amazon and other music stores. The auto-tag can be a bit hit and miss and generally requires a little manual clean-up afterwards, but it gets the basics done and can embed the album art into each track for you.
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rolleyes posted:I use the free version of MediaMonkey on my PC partly out of apathy and partly because it can auto-tag albums by looking them up on Amazon and other music stores. The auto-tag can be a bit hit and miss and generally requires a little manual clean-up afterwards, but it gets the basics done and can embed the album art into each track for you. Yeah it can also read/write folder and file names to/from various tag fields so if you're one of those folder organized Luddites you can still properly tag your files!
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LastInLine posted:I believe iTunes does this properly but as far as I know they're the only ones. I find it infuriating that despite having completely accurate metadata that Android sometimes just decides that it isn't. One album becomes two, some album art isn't there, sometime whole tracks disappear. All at random too. No, iTunes doesn't use the Album Artist tag properly either. If you try to sort by Album Artist it turns into Album by Artist and everything ends up ordered by the artist tag on the song anyway, but chunked into separate albums (So, for example, a typical hip-hop album becomes 3 different albums because of varying guest producers and vocalists). Additionally, the iPod doesn't support the Album Artist tag either. It's not even present in the menu. My workaround has been to duplicate the Album Artist tag in the Composer tag (which I don't care about because the composer is almost always either just the artist's given name, or some studio guy I don't give two fucks about) when I tag my music, but I haven't found a player on Android that'll use that tag either 
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Gyshall posted:I use mp3tag on my desktop to make sure everything is good before uploading to Google Music. Even then some albums are all hosed up on the play site. I'm with this guy. When I fix tags in windows, its mp3tag. If you do linux, easytag works very well. Like LastInLine, I do sometimes have ghost tags that I cannot find with either app, but show up on the phone . Most my music comes from either amazon or bandcamp and the tags rarely seem to be how I want them, so I have a habit of retagging/renaming everything before I even move it to my main music folder. At one time I was huge into BMG, converting roughly 300 cds took me probably 2 years and now I've got some sweet 128k rips.
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In summary, the answer to the question "how hard can it be to support common ID3 tags" seems to be "harder than you might think".
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One trick I've found is stripping the album of ALL tags in MP3tag and then adding them fresh. MP3tag can show you the differences between individual MP3s pretty easily as is.
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Is there a news widget similar to Simple Calenders that I can use to take up a full screen in nova launcher and be all pretty like?
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I'm looking for a good RSS reader app as well as a good podcast app? I've seen Good News and Pocket Casts recommended, are those the way to go or are there others I should be looking at?
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Biggest human being Ever posted:I'm looking for a good RSS reader app as well as a good podcast app? I've seen Good News and Pocket Casts recommended, are those the way to go or are there others I should be looking at? I'm wondering the same thing. I'm currently using Reeder and Downcast on the iPhone, and I like them so much that I'm ready for disappointment with Android.
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