[mb-users] Working with Picard screencast, Part 1: Basic Tagging

[Mika Heiska]

I don't personally like vlc at all. :)

I actually have a pretty recent ffdshow which should have supported 
theora decoding, but I don't know why the file didn't play. Maybe MPC 
tried to play it as audio file or something, with the ogg extension and 
all. Not that I know, just a stab in the dark. Anyways, I got it working 
with oggcodecs pack I downloaded from illiminable[1], but in general I 
feel that it's too much trouble, when chances are that there will be no 
use for those after this. Not in a very near future anyway.

Anyways, about the cast itself. When clustering files, you don't 
actually have to select the related files at all for picard to cluster 
them. Picard will just cluster everything under unmatched when nothing 
is selected. You can limit the clustering to specific files by selecting 
though, but why would you want to do that? :P

And it's a bit too fast. I can read it, but no one likes to be rushed. :D

I also maybe wouldn't start with single file lookup, but rather the much 
more useful full cluster lookup. I mean, if you first lookup one file, 
and then cluster the rest of the album and lookup that on its own, 
chances are that you will end up with two albums on the right side of 
the screen, one with one matched track, one with the rest. This much is 
true with more popular stuff with multiple releases with slightly 
different tracklists and track amounts.

So what I'm saying is that I don't think you should teach people to 
lookup incomplete clusters. :D

And after that use the single file lookup, and write something along the 
lines of "incase you don't have full albums, you can still lookup single 
files as well, yada yada".

That's about it I suppose.

[1] http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/

~Mika

Oliver Charles wrote:
> Sorry, but I only have screencasting software that records straight to
> Ogg Theora at the moment. As Aaron said, you can play the video in VLC
> [1], I'm not sure what other players on Windows work. For OS X, VLC
> again will work - and Linux has mplayer, vlc, totem...
> 
> I'll see if I can get a more globally used codec in the future (but
> I'd like to carry on pushing Ogg Theora where I can!). Sorry to hear
> you've had problems, but thanks for brining this to my attention.
> Working on getting it onto Youtube now, as an alternative.
> 
> [1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc
> 
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  On 14-Feb-08, at 7:38 AM, Mika Heiska wrote:
>>
>>  > It might be worth explaining how people are supposed to view this.
>>  > To me it looks like a regular ogg audio file that simply doesn't
>>  > play in my winamp, for example.
>>  >
>>  > If at all possible, upload to youtube or similar, because everyone
>>  > knows how to view stuff on them.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > ~Mika
>>
>>  It plays in VLC.
>>
>>  -Aaron
>>
>>
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