RTP-area local music and culture

[tommy Gibson <tcgibson AT mindspring.com>]

Chris,

Check your "ifoufo AT yahoo.com" inbox.

-tG




Chris Calloway wrote:

> i need your help. all the cool kids are doing it. you
> may as well, too.
> 
> in less than a couple of weeks, i teach (yes, i know,
> hold your laughter) a computer programming boot camp
> for research scientists in a number of disciplines.
> 
> for one of the first lessons, the class walks through
> a nearly trivial program which parses ID3v1.0 tags out
> of MP3 files and prints them. like so:
> 
> album=you win
> comment=http://www.thestrugglers.org
> title=the cascade range
> artist=the strugglers
> year=2005
> genre=255
> 
> we'll do that because it's easy and fun compared to
> what we normally do all day. ID3v1.0 tags are the last
> 128 bytes of an mp3 file if those bytes begin with the
> string "TAG" and then the data is positional from
> there. whoo-hoo. that's is about as easy as metadata
> gets.
> 
> because not only local folks, but people from all over
> the country are coming to this class, i thought it
> would be fun to populate the example mp3 directory for
> testing the program in this lesson with tunage from
> some of my favorite local bands.
> 
> so i went to trianglerock.com and spent way to much
> time downloading mp3s made by many of you kind people.
> 
> this despite deadlines are looming large quickly and i
> really don't have time to spend skipping through mp3
> gardens. i mean, sleep is entirely out of the question
> for awhile. like, i've been meaning to write this
> email for three months now and i can't wait any
> longer.
> 
> so after spending this time downloading, what i find
> is that very few of us tag our music files. the
> strugglers, as shown above, are a very fine exception.
> thank you, strugglers! the moaners, veronique
> diabolique, vibrant green, and jett rink also get
> merit badges for having at least partial tag data.
> 
> and you should tag your files. embedded tags are what
> allow you to see what's playing in your player without
> having to attach to some creepy file signature service
> on the net collecting data about what you listen to.
> 
> so to finally get to the point, what i'm asking is, if
> your local band has mp3 files you'd like a captive
> audience of geeky science nerds to hear, tag 'em with
> complete and informative ID3v1.0 tags and send 'em  or
> a link to 'em to me via private email at the from
> address of this email. i'd be pleased as punch to plug
> your tunes in return for a good sampling of complete
> tag sets.
> 
> There's a whole crapload of freeware, shareware, and
> otherware tag editors here:
> 
> http://www.dailymp3.com/id3tagging.html
> 
> and still a bunch more not listed there all over the
> web.
> 
> also, i'm looking for id3v1 tags and not id3v2 tags.
> id3v2 tags are more complicated and less suited for
> this nearly trivial lesson. pretty much all of those
> tag editors will let you choose which tag version you
> are applying to your files and some are smart enough
> to do both.
> 
> ok, thanks. that is all.
> 
> 3
> 
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene