User:JimDeLaHunt

JimDeLaHunt

Jim DeLaHunt [ MB: Editor:Jim DeLaHunt | IRC: none yet | Wiki: JimDeLaHunt | Last.fm: none yet | jdlh.com ]

I live in Vancouver, Canada. Our family has a collection of some 500 CDs which are gradually being ripped, encoded, and tagged. Most are opera and classical, but there are other genres in there too.... I really care about having accurate metadata on my opera tracks, because that's an important part of having it show up well in the music players.

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What I'm seized of at MusicBrainz

• Get good metadata tags for the CD collection I'm ripping.
• Figure out how enter metadata for my CD collection efficiently.
• Improving documentation of existing features. Write howto documents recording what I've learned.
• Maybe write some better data entry UIs or bots to systematically clean up existing data.
• Look at the ObjectModel and notions like work (composition) as applicable to ClassicalMusic, OperaMusic and MusicalTheatre.
• Figure out what MusicBrainz is trying to be: "This site is intended to be a free, on-line encyclopedia of music information." (GeneralFAQ), but that still leaves me with questions.
• Is MB attempting to build a database of true facts and relationships about music separate from particular recordings, and/or a database of facts and relationships about recordings, and/or a service that produces useful metadata tags for digital music files?

Setting up a private server: log

I'm trying to set up a private copy of the MusicBrainz server for development work. Here's a log of my actions and lessons learned. I hope this is helpful for other MusicBrainz users.

• Follow instructions at VirtualMusicBrainzServer . --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
  • Downloading ftp://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/MBServer-20070401-2.tar.bz2 only took me about 5 minutes. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
  • Don't need to use 7-Zip to open archive; default archive utility for Mac OS 10.5.1 did just fine with both .bz2 and .tar. Took only 2-5 minutes. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18
  • More on "Start the virtual machine in VMWare". Run VMWare Fusion application. File... Open.... In File Open dialogue, navigate to folder MBServer-20070401-2/MBServer-20070401/ where you opened the archive. Select file MBServer-20070401.vmx in that folder. The virtual machine boots up. A bootloader prompt offers to two configurations; pick the one that doesn't offer "safe mode". The boot sequence runs in text mode. Finally a "brainzvm login:" prompt appears. --JimDeLaHunt 2008-01-18 00:55h
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