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

[Oliver Charles]

Thanks for the excellent feedback Mika! I'm knew to screencasting, as
you can probably tell, and I did try to slow it down, clearly not
enough though :-)

I'm going to re-record today the same screencast and slow it down and
take these points into consideration. Also, the video is on YouTube
now (link to that is in my entry in the MusicBrainz blog).

Thanks for your feedback, hopefully take 2 will be cleaner!

- Ollie

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 3:26 AM, Mika Heiska <kilualmighty at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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