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iPod Changing from 'Movie' or 'Music Video' to 'TV Show'
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Works perfect for me. My only problem is the inability to copy and paste text into and out of boxes but I can deal with that, it is worth it for the advantages of the app. Do you plan to add a batch process to the program? It works fast enough that that is not a problem, I am just curious.
I have posted another version -- it's pretty much the same thing as the last one, with one little bug fix. Lostify 0.1.2 Had a problem where if any of the properties contained a single or double quote, it would mess things up. I have fixed this in 0.1.3:
Lostify0.1.3.dmg
Also, I am a good ways along towards releasing 0.2. New features will include a more intuitive user interface. I will also support copy & paste. However, no batch processing yet. Maybe someday.
Norville
Lostify0.1.3.dmg
Also, I am a good ways along towards releasing 0.2. New features will include a more intuitive user interface. I will also support copy & paste. However, no batch processing yet. Maybe someday.
Norville
Hi everyone...
I had an issue when using AP. Not for all atoms, but at least for name, artist, and album, I am getting an underscore at the end... If I say --artist "whatever", when I open it in iTunes the artist will show up in there like whatever_
when I then go to information, there is no underscore shown and if I hit ok and it closes, nothing changes. However if I erase whatever and re-type it, the underscore goes away.
A little on what I am trying to do. I collect live music, basically download a concert and convert it to .m4a(lossless) so I can listen to it on my iPod etc. Each "fileset" comes with the tracks and a .txt file (I chuck the md5s and anything else after conversion). I edit every text file so there's 4 lines of info, then songs listed preceeded by the set and track number. set is 1 digit (e for encore) and track is 2 digits. All the files are in a folder with somewhat of a standard for the bandname and date like ph19940614.m4af. Here's an example of the important text in the text file.
101. Green Acres
102. Mable
103. Steel Pulse
201. YEM
202. Hello!
e01. Shine
I wrote a little piece of code that assembles this information and changes the tags of all the m4a files similar to this... For the first one, the name would be Green Acres, the band (currently forced) is Phish, the album is ph19940614_1 (_2 for set 2, _e for encore) the year is 1994, the track number is 1/3. This works great so far and I'm willing to collaborate with anyone who does the same thing. BTW, I am a very inexperienced coder using realbasic to do it. I am basically writing to the command line. And yes, what is going to the command line is perfect. The adding of the underscore happens no matter what method I use to run Atomic Parsley.
Thanks for the prog, it rocks.
Jephrey
I had an issue when using AP. Not for all atoms, but at least for name, artist, and album, I am getting an underscore at the end... If I say --artist "whatever", when I open it in iTunes the artist will show up in there like whatever_
when I then go to information, there is no underscore shown and if I hit ok and it closes, nothing changes. However if I erase whatever and re-type it, the underscore goes away.
A little on what I am trying to do. I collect live music, basically download a concert and convert it to .m4a(lossless) so I can listen to it on my iPod etc. Each "fileset" comes with the tracks and a .txt file (I chuck the md5s and anything else after conversion). I edit every text file so there's 4 lines of info, then songs listed preceeded by the set and track number. set is 1 digit (e for encore) and track is 2 digits. All the files are in a folder with somewhat of a standard for the bandname and date like ph19940614.m4af. Here's an example of the important text in the text file.
101. Green Acres
102. Mable
103. Steel Pulse
201. YEM
202. Hello!
e01. Shine
I wrote a little piece of code that assembles this information and changes the tags of all the m4a files similar to this... For the first one, the name would be Green Acres, the band (currently forced) is Phish, the album is ph19940614_1 (_2 for set 2, _e for encore) the year is 1994, the track number is 1/3. This works great so far and I'm willing to collaborate with anyone who does the same thing. BTW, I am a very inexperienced coder using realbasic to do it. I am basically writing to the command line. And yes, what is going to the command line is perfect. The adding of the underscore happens no matter what method I use to run Atomic Parsley.
Thanks for the prog, it rocks.
Jephrey
norville said:
Sweet, any way we can help beta test this new GUI version? Maybe?
Very awesome, but Copy/Paste is going to be essential to enter the same thing over and over for 60+ episodes of a series.
Very cool, both the Terminal app and the GUI script. Both of you are saints among mortals.
Just FYI, I posted a very slightly altered version of Lostify this morning. Only change: all the text fields now support copy/paste. That was a small oversight in the coding, but understandably had a big negative impact on the usability. So it's fixed now.
You can always get the latest version of Lostify on its home page. You can check MacUpdate.
john7r... sorry to break it to you, but you're already beta testing.
Everything with a version number < 1.0 is alpha or beta. That said, I'll release 0.2 (with a much more polished GUI) as soon as I'm done with it, and everyone can give it a try. Work is coming along nicely.
You can always get the latest version of Lostify on its home page. You can check MacUpdate.
john7r... sorry to break it to you, but you're already beta testing.
Everything with a version number < 1.0 is alpha or beta. That said, I'll release 0.2 (with a much more polished GUI) as soon as I'm done with it, and everyone can give it a try. Work is coming along nicely.I know, but it sounded like you had a build already close to finished. =)
I think an option to include "default info" would be useful. For example: I'm tagging the first season of some show on NBC. I already know some fields that could be pre-populated.
Type: TV Show
Genre: TV Show
Series: Some Show
Season: 1
Network: NBC
Copyright: NBC
You could make a menu item at the top that opens up a window (similar to what you already have) then let us populate those fields we want to have pre-populated every time we open a file.
Then I open each file and most of the heavy lifting is already done... Plop in the episode number and the Episode Title and click Apply. When I'm done I clean out the defaults window fields to get back to a blank slate.
Just a thought...
I think an option to include "default info" would be useful. For example: I'm tagging the first season of some show on NBC. I already know some fields that could be pre-populated.
Type: TV Show
Genre: TV Show
Series: Some Show
Season: 1
Network: NBC
Copyright: NBC
You could make a menu item at the top that opens up a window (similar to what you already have) then let us populate those fields we want to have pre-populated every time we open a file.
Then I open each file and most of the heavy lifting is already done... Plop in the episode number and the Episode Title and click Apply. When I'm done I clean out the defaults window fields to get back to a blank slate.
Just a thought...
john7jr said:
Isn't it enough that we can now use an app to do our dirty work? Next people will be asking for a program that watches the video for you summarizes it for the description!
http://home.comcast.net/~lowellstewart/lostify/
here you guys go - GUI interface for Atomic Parsley, works like a charm!
here you guys go - GUI interface for Atomic Parsley, works like a charm!
darwen said:Isn't it enough that we can now use an app to do our dirty work? Next people will be asking for a program that watches the video for you summarizes it for the description!
True, however... If I just settled for the basic barely-works type of program I'd be a Windows user.
I've always been a serious beta-tester, if there are features that help the workflow then I suggest them. The author is under no obligation to implement them, but it never hurts to give suggestions. The thing I kept thinking, file after file, was "why couldn't this thing remember what I'm working on?" Setting default values for certain fields would take it up from a functional app to a very productive one.
If I were catching a single show at a time it would be fine, but have a pretty impressive collection to retro-tag now. Those are just my thoughts... that's beta-testing to me.
I wish I could create something cool like this that helps a lot of people. The only thing I have ever programed was my TI-83plus calculator. I wrote simple apps to get me through chem tests. I distributed them a little but I wish I could make something that a lot of people would want.
I'm still having trouble with this. I used Lostify to add some tags to an episode of this season of Family Guy. It still wouldn't be listed with the TV Shows. What value do I have to put for what tag for that to work?
EricBrian--may I inquire which version of Mac OS X you're running? And... what kind of "crash" are we talking about here... application vanishes? system apparently freezes? Kernel panic? I'd like to avoid this if possible (naturally).EricBrian said:Lostify crashes my PB every time.
AtomicParsley works great for me.
Version 0.2 should be making an appearance any day now, and it makes this much more obvious... but I suggest setting tags as follows:Counterfit said:
Name = <episode title>
Description = <episode description>
Type = TV Show
Genre = TV Shows
Album = <Series Title>, Season <num>
Artist = <Series Title>
Album Artist = <Series Title>
Series = <Series Title>
Season = <num, e.g. 2>
Episode = <num of episode in season, e.g. 7>
Episode No = <number of episode in series, e.g. 207>
Track = <track num>/<total tracks>
Air Date = YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
Hope this helps.
This too is fixed in 0.2. It required a patch to AtomicParsley, which has been submitted and accepted. I'll get 0.2 out real soon now, but my actual life is presenting a number of logistical challenges, and finding free time to code is not easy.bigbadTKO said:
any PC versions? ? and shouldnt their be a easy, carefree way of doing this? how dumb is apple to leave this out of itunes options
? and shouldnt their be a easy, carefree way of doing this? how dumb is apple to leave this out of itunes options
Konradx said:any PC versions?
Why is it dumb? The only way of getting TV shows into iTunes is by illegally ripping them. The only legal ones are from the Music Store and they come with the appropriate tags.