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I see the yellowtec can take an external power supply - anyone know whether it's center pin + ?

puddletag runs on OSX. Installation is via Homebrew, instructions here: Download — puddletag

Rooned for life, no regrets.

I'm running a library over 2x the size of yours and having no issues with Roon's performance or functionality. Afraid this is a case of PEBCAK...the Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. If you insist the problem's not you then it can only be your hardware.

I've been using allmusic.com's genre taxonomy since I can remember, so every album is tagged combining their Genre and Style tags. I find it's a great way to explore one's music library and fantastic for generating random playlists.

No reason for concern, LMS will continue with or without Logitech and you can already substitute a Wandboard for a Squeezebox device.

I questioned their release of Derek & the Dominoes' Layla on their facebook page and they deleted the post. After I reposted it I was banned. I'm left with no alternative but to conclude that these people know they're peddling crap, they just don't give a damn. No way I'd support them going forward, not unless they were prepared to attest to every release truly being from the master recording and are prepared to post the waveform and DR info so I can decide for myself whether the release is something worth paying for.

It's been a while since I posted any updates regarding puddletag and there have been a host of under the hood tweaks as well as functional enhancements & additions, culminating in this release. A lot of our focus has been on adding the little things that make your life easier when tagging, whether you're tagging an individual track, an album or processing changes to your entire library. If you haven't already tried puddletag I'd encourage you to do so as I'm sure you'll be very pleasantly surprised by what it offers and its ease of use. It's the little things that make all the difference e.g. being able to: copy selected tag metadata from files in a 1:1 or 1:many fashion lookup tags using multiple tag sources (masstagging) and combine the results whilst dictating which fields to populate from which sources. Tags a mess? ...no problem, load the files, choose one or more tag sources and masstagger will do its best to create some semblance of order from the chaos. When it's done you can review/ edit and make any changes you like including wholesale rejection of proposed changes for any track(s) add metadata to existing tags without overwriting/ compromising existing tags process Actions & Functions against only selected fields or all fields in selected files except those fields you specifically exclude easily assign metadata from a tag source at an album or track level retrieve metadata from various tag sources and for every tag source, have the data saved to fields of your choosing What users are saying: "Thanks for this very nice program. I've been able to run it on Mac OSX 10.6 without any problem at the exception of the Quolibet functionalities (Quolibet depends on PyGtk which is not natively available for Mac)." "Thanks for making an Mp3Tag for Linux!" "Cheers & great work, thanks!" "OMG ! That's powerful. Thanks very much." "Discovered PuddleTag 0.97 today. It is fatastic! Right away I feel at home (was familiar with mp3Tag + wine). The GUI of PuddleTag is more efficient in my opinion. Kudos to the author." "Hi, first of all I want to congratulate you for this wonderful program." "hEY. first of all - a brilliant piece of software. i was forced to move to ubuntu a few weeks back and thanks to puddletag, it's less painful" "first, congratulation for this software, i'm very impressed by the all the solutions for tagging my audio collection. (scripts regexp .....) good work" "Great tagger and actively developed. It's also very fast." "Wow, this has exceeded my expectations. Thanks to the developers for an excellent audio tagger." "Reverting to other tag editors would be like entering the dark ages. puddletag's become an exceptionally good tag editor." "I'd never have believed it, but puddletag has taken Mp3tag as its baseline, and then lifted the bar enormously. I'm blown away!" "Very, very useful, managing my tagging requirements has become a breeze." "A reason to finally ditch Wine and MP3Tag! Puddletag is everything you want and more in a spreadsheet-based tagger." "I've tried every Linux based audio tagger out there and and puddletag is hands-down streets ahead of all of them. Linux users finally have an audio tagger every bit as good as windows users enjoy in mp3tag." What's new: At a high level key changes & additions can be summarised as follows: many new functions added to further ease and enhance your ability to process changes to fields extensive support for musicbrainz metadata and Discogs.com's XML service (tentative) support for Mp3tag's tag sources Preview mode: review/add/ amend metadata retrieved from tag sources prior to committing any changes. In practical terms this means you can load an album in puddletag and enrich the metadata using a combination of tag sources and your own edits/ additions in a single operation. Edits/ additions can be made using the File-View, Tag Panel or Extended Tags view. ability to move directories using the Tag->Dir function addition of __counter (the sequence number of the file that's being processed, based on the order they're listed in the file-view) and __total_files (total number of files currently being processed, based on the number of files selected) variables, which which you can use in Functions and Actions function to correct incorrectly encoded filenames ability to sort selected files using predefined sort criteria that differs from the sort order of the population of loaded files ability to move selected files up/ down in file listing, regardless of sort orrder ability to assign shortcuts to Actions puddletag now supports translations To get an appreciation of all that puddletag offers, please refer to the online documentation.

puddletag 0.96 has been released and includes a host of additional features and enhancements. Highlights include: Ability to accept/ reject changes to existing tag metadata at a track and/or field level when using Tag Sources (including Masstagging). Fields that will be changed are formatted bold and can be viewed/edited in main view, Tag Panel or Extended Tags view. Unchanged fields are shown in italics Ability to remove ID3 and APEv2 tags from files that shouldn't contain these tag types. Ability to toggle confirmations for Renaming Directories, Exiting Preview Mode and Deleting files. Ability to rename folders via an action specifying a value for the __dirname field. Support for UFID frames for ID3v2 Tags. Monkey's Audio File's are now fully supported. The Actions and Functions dialogs can now be tool windows too (See Windows Menu). Actions and Functions now operate and write multiple-valued fields. Two new scripting functions copied straight from Mp3tag: $meta_sep and $meta. See the Scripting page for details. Numerous new functions that can be used on a standalone basis or used in actions. These include ability to: import text file to field embed artwork merge fields remove specified fields remove ALL BUT specified fields remove duplicate values in a field sort multivalue fields (ascending, descending and with or without case sensitivity) rename file using tag values See the Functions page for a detailed listing and description of each. All documentation has been updated. If you're in need of any assistance or have suggestions, please post them on the puddletag forum. Last, but not least, puddletag can now be downloaded as a .deb file meaning installation on Debian based Linux systems is as simple as double-clicking on the file to get it and all dependencies installed. In Ubuntu it will appear in the Applications/Sound & Video menu.

With Masstagging now complete and fully operational we've shifted out focus to enhancing under the hood functionality. Work is currently underway to include the following capabilities within puddletag: Removing incorrect tag types puddletag will enable you to consolidate metadata from various tag types, remove incorrect tag types and rewrite the consolidated metadata using the correct tag type e.g. a FLAC file containing ID3v2 and Vorbis tags will yield consolidated tag metadata and the ID3v2 tags will be removed, without duplicating metadata. Splitting, merging and de-duping tags You will be able to merge, split and/or de-duplicate tag metadata e.g. if you have a genre tag as follows: genre=Rock\Hard Rock\Rock : Split tags: genre=Rock, genre=Hard Rock Merge tags: genre=Rock\Hard Rock De-duplication will occur automatically when merging or splitting tags. Other functions you'll be able to use in Actions include: adding/ saving artwork to disc; removing specified fields/tags and removing all tags/fields EXCEPT those you stipulate.

Agreed, acoustic fingerprinting has been around for some time now and generates pretty good playlists and recommendation when implemented properly. There are commercial services Apple could make use of but they've no incentive to suggest things they've not got in store. I'm afraid iTunes will always be crap, it's primary purpose is to facilitate revenue generation for Apple, playing music is merely borne of necessity to enable Apple's business model.

Sorry I should've clarified that the kind of browsing I'm referring to doesn't need an Internet connection to do its thing. The metadata should be in the front-end's database. Perhaps the front-end would periodically at the user's request reach out and grab delta data from the Internet, but in daily use it's not a requirement. Picture this scenario (replace named artists with whatever artista you enjoy)... You're listening to a Fleetwood Mac album, it's coming to an end and you're trying to decide what to listen to next. It strikes you that you've enjoyed Linsey Buckingham's guitar on the last track and would like to hear more, but this time focused on Lindsey and perhaps similar artists. You touch on an icon that reveals band related information for the currently playing album. You then touch on Lindsey's name and you're presented with his biography, discography and similar artists (those albums within his discography that happen to be in your collection can be played at the touch of an icon). You look at Similar artists and see that Tom Petty is listed. You think "aha!, I've not listened to Tom Petty for quite some time, I'm in the mood for some...". You touch on Tom's name and again you're presented with the info I've discussed under Lindsey above. You decide on an album, touch the play button, kick back and relax. While you're enjoying "Don't Come Around here no more" playing through your stereo, you realise you've forgotten some of the lyric. A simple touch on the trackname and you're presented with the lyric, along with the songwriter's details... You can take what I've described in many different directions, limited only by the available metadata and your imagination. Personally it presents a pretty compelling listening experience and I'd be hard pressed to leave my listening room over a weekend.

Hi audiomuze - Do you have a vested interested in Muso? Also, it looks like Muso uses iTunes on a PC (please correct me if I'm wrong). Is there any way to get bit perfect output using Muso? Hi. No vested interest whatsoever, in fact I don't even run a Windows platform, but I'll admit that Muso's the closest thing I've seen to what a good front-end to one's music library would/ should be. To the best of my knowledge Muso can tell iTunes what to play, but it does its own scanning and maintains its own database, independent of iTunes (albeit it can import your iTunes DB as a starting point for use within muso). Regarding bit perfpect output, muso doesn't handle the playback, it merely tells Squeezeboxserver, Winamp or iTunes what to play...so, in short, if your player does bit perfect, then initiating playback via muso will do same.

Would it be nice to have access to liner notes, lyrics, biographies, reviews etc within iTunes? I guess...sometimes. Then again a browser with all of that info and more is a click and a search away. Honestly though, when I want to listen to music that's all I want to do...not read, surf, clean, etc...just LISTEN. I'm with you, my favourite listening position is in a recliner in my listening room, nowhere near my PC. That said, having the ability to control my listening, browse and pick things to play by Mood, Style etc and do all this using an iPod, Android etc. would indeed take listening to another level altogether. Don't know about others, but I like to know about artists, read album reviews, find related artists, similar music etc. - to me it's all part of the listening experience and I currently get to enjoy it, but in a limited manner using Squeezeboxserver coupled with a CustomBrowse plugin and iPeng running on my iPhone.

only if you ithink that a decent software interface has to cost £5,000. Sure you won't get allmusic's content without a hefty fee, but there are other sources of metadata such as that are freely available...last.FM, wikipedia etc. Anyhow, enough said, neither of us is going to convince the other.