This is very cool. Better than Live Search. I might be able to implement this, and even include the abililty to get multiple pages worth of results. And, it should be possible to do it so the search results appear in the sidebar, too. I’ll definitely look into this one. (Thanks Kreaper!)
I’m not sure whether I’m going to use Album Artist across my iTunes Library, or not. I’ve already used it in a couple of places, where I have several albums of the same title, such as Greatest Hits, or Behind The Sun. But the other place I may wish to use it is where on an artist’s album there are co-artists for some tracks. The one that springs to mind is Paul Mac, 3000 Feet High. For most of these tracks, Paul Mac credits the singer - generally it was Abby Dobson, Peta Morris, or someone else. The point is, until the advent of Album Artist as a tag, to keep the album together I had Paul Mac as the designated Artist. Then, in the case of a “featuring” credit, which there is on each track in this case except the last two, I put (feat. Additional Artist) into the song Name. Now, I am in a bit of a pickle. I can instead make the Album Artist Paul Mac, and in the Artist field, put Paul Mac featuring Additional Artist. This is all well and good, and the files are stored in the Paul Mac directory, but then I have more artists listed in the Artist browser. Luckily, because I’m somewhat anal with my tagging of tracks, all of my featuring credits are stored as indicated in the song title, so it was easy to create a script that parses the track name, and grabs out the additional artist(s). It is also possible to not add in the Album Artist tag on tracks that are compilations. However, because of the issue indicated above, I haven’t run that script on all of the tracks in my library yet. I’m really not sure which path to take.
I just don’t shave because it means I can sleep in for an extra 7 minutes.
This is a cool idea - disable the Submit button via JavaScript when it’s pressed, so poeple can’t resubmit a comment multiple times. Not that it’s happened to me, but I like it anyway. Shamelessly stolen from Submit only once! Note to self: Implement this, or something like it.
I laughed out loud when I read The politics of chess, over on Rum and Monkey.
And then in rides the cavalry, to take the glory and claim the victory as their own. It’s typical, if you ask me… the horsey set always likes to think of itself as punching well above its social weight. When they’re not prancing about the board of life, you’ll find the Knights playing polo and drinking champagne.
This is a bit of a test with w.bloggar, as I’m struggling to get ecto to post images properly. Let’s see if this works. Actually, it’s image handling is a bit crap.
I had an HTML file I wanted to look at the source of, so I right-clicked on it in Windows, and chose “Edit”. Tell me Mr Gates, why on earth would I want to edit it in Word? I’ve never ever opened or saved an HTML file from Word, I’m not about to start now. I expected it to load up in Notepad, which would have been bearable (a real text editor would have been better), but not Word.
Everyone probably knows this, as it’s on the iTunes Music Store already, but you can download partial episodes of Thank God You’re Here via podcast. Legally, apparently. Mind you, the first few lines Anh Do’s performance were okay, but it went downhill from there. Apparently this is the best they could come up with. I thought it were crap. And it still had the advertisements from Hungry Jacks in it… Unsubscribe
Bright Side of The Road • “The Best Of Van Morrison” • Van Morrison
And, I’ve got to fix my iTunes insert code so it puts the rating as a number of stars… I might use a script rather than the normal ecto button.
I’ve stopped downloading the Chaser podcasts, since the quality is too poor, and I want to keep those for posterity. However, as a bit of a whinge, it did make something clear to me. Apple thinks podcasts can’t be TV shows, or movies. If you try a Get Info on a video podcast, and wish to make it into a TV show, so you can organise it properly within your library, you can’t. This option is grayed out in the Video tab.
Pass In Time • “Central Reservation” • Beth Orton
Well, I’ve come across a bug in iTunes 7. I use Party Shuffle, but since I often spend time sorting through my 7626 songs, 784 podcasts, and so on, I like to be able to just add tracks to the Party Shuffle, and not have to use “Play Next in Party Shuffle”. So I have 0 upcoming songs shown. Just so it’s always a surprise what’s going to play next, unless I’ve already decided I want a particular song. With iTunes 7, however, having 0 tracks shown next means that it stops playing when there are no more tracks. This is bad.
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill • “White Album” • The Beatles