Comments on: Juno MP3 Scraper

By: stef

stef — Fri, 09 May 2003 04:49:15 +0000

which line? this would be so much easier by email.
if you mean the juno.co.uk one, then it’s fine

By: Yoz

Yoz — Thu, 08 May 2003 22:47:57 +0000

Oh I seeeeee. Okay. Hmmm. Is it working okay with that extra line?

By: stef

stef — Thu, 08 May 2003 21:56:21 +0000

ok. you’d better come and take a look at my ipod then.
you can browse lists by album, OR song title, or Artist name. the ‘juno.co.uk’ works fine for gathering together all the juno tracks, when I’m in sample-listening mode, but when I’m listen-to-the-normal-music mode, my artist list is about trebled in size, most of which are 45 second clips. My artist browsing experience is sub-optimal, all of a sudden
If every juno track had z prepended to the song and artist name, the tracks would be at the end of both lists, and my ‘pod would still be usable. geddit?
was also thinking it might be good to stick the filename in the comments tag

By: Yoz

Yoz — Wed, 07 May 2003 09:27:54 +0000

I really don’t understand what you want here. I mean, if I take your request literally, all you need is this line just before the tagging bit:
$f->{artist} = “z ” . $f->{artist};
… but I find it hard to believe that there is no better way of getting iTunes to separate one chunk of MP3s from another chunk of MP3s.

By: stef

stef — Wed, 07 May 2003 04:52:29 +0000

except it doesn’t. damnit apple and their clevercleverness.
use z inztead.

By: stef

stef — Wed, 07 May 2003 04:13:09 +0000

you didn't do number 2, but as http://www.asciitable.com/ so helpfully points out ~ is ASCII 126, and so sorts nicely to the end of the all the playlists. seriously, this is important :)

By: Yoz

Yoz — Tue, 06 May 2003 16:46:49 +0000

I’ve made fix #1 that Stef suggested: each file is now album-tagged as “juno.co.uk”. Haven’t done a fix for the second one: it’s easier if you just give the junoscraper its own folder. Plus, I’ve now added a log feature – every time the scraper runs, it writes each downloaded filename to junolog.txt. It also checks this file for any filename it’s about to download, so it can skip files it’s done in the past. (So it should be much quicker to run every few days)

By: Ben Hammersley

Ben Hammersley — Tue, 06 May 2003 16:37:02 +0000

re: jaguar and 5.8, I heard from Apple that they royally screwed up there, and released with 5.6 by mistake. The guy in charge apparently got shouted at a bit. Nevertheless, something is rather weird with os x perl – try installing some XML modules and see what I mean. (oh, and any XML modules you do get running will need to be reinstalled after CPAN does it’s 5.8 upgradey badness.)
and whatever you do, when you install Bundle::LWP, DO NOT allow get to be aliased. OSX is not case sensitive, so lwp get overwrites GET, (or the other way round, I forget)
AND, upgrading to 5.8 when you have fink installed is just a world of trouble

By: stef

stef — Tue, 06 May 2003 15:41:53 +0000

wow. two bug fixes/essential enhancements:
1. stick “from juno.co.uk” in the album TAG so that you can group them all together.
2. prefix each track name/artist with ‘z ‘ – there might be a less clumsy way to do this (what sorts post z, in ASCII?), but you definitely want these kept away from your normal track/artist listings.
as I’ve just discovered to my cost

By: paul mison

paul mison — Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:33:45 +0000

The cpan program (and the CPAN module that powers it, as opposed to CPAN the archive) is something of a relic, and the version with perl 5.6.0 (as default- still!- on Mac OS X) is even more crufty. Handy hints for the first-time Mac OS X cpan user, then: * configuration is time-consuming. Stick at it. If you see the question about following prerequisites, answer 'ask' not 'follow'; this should prevent it trying to upgrade the whole of perl without you knowing. * try and have wget or ncftpget available. They're better at downloading things than plain ftp. * the first thing you should install is 'CPAN', to upgrade it. Do *not* install Bundle::CPAN; this has more prerequisites, some of which trigger upgrading perl. You'll probably have to reconfigure it, sadly. You could download the distribution manually to avoid the duplication, though: http://search.cpan.org/author/ANDK/CPAN-1.70/ * If you can get LWP to install, do so. It's a somewhat hairy module, but it'll help cpan no end. * Consider CPANPLUS (whose executable is, confusingly, cpanp) instead. It's a reengineered version of CPAN.pm, which aims to provide a more robust, extensible architecture for fetching modules. http://search.cpan.org/author/KANE/CPANPLUS-0.042/ Hope this helps.