Carl Warnick

These are in the context of cleaning/tagging 10-50 albums a day.

1. One window to confirm all changes.
It is too easy to make errors. You need to be able to see all your changes in one space so you can do sanity checks just once per album instead of having to pay attention to correctness at every step. Media Scrubber is close to this but it doesn’t have the capitalization tools and renaming tools that one needs.

2. Drag and drop is too clumsy for this level of productivity.

3. Needs the ability to automate.

4. It is too easy to tag the wrong album.
If you do not notice that the “Folder of Files to Change” is set to the wrong folder, you clicked to open it instead of dragging a folder on it’s button.

5. Early versions had better support for stripping filenames down to all english ASCII with no punctuation. So different OS’s/Devices don’t choke on the filenames.

6. If a track name has ? in it, the File Renamer won’t work. [or any other character OSX chokes on, I assume.]

I miss ID3-TagIT. But Media Rage is the best tagging tool for OSX that I’ve found.

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Windows/OSX cannot see the contents of a Samba shared folder on a Linux/Unix box if the Samba client does not have execute permissions on that folder.

If other words:
drw-rw-rw makes contents of the folder invisible
drwxrwxrwx makes contents of the folder visible

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I am happy to say that I now have a dual boot 10.4.1 and XP ShuttleX box!

OS X is FAST. It is much more responsive on this box than XP. Even with XP’s effects turned off.

This box is a 1 and a half years old and it feels more responsive than most dual G5 boxes I’ve worked on.

I used deadmoo’s tiger-x86.tar.bz2 and dd it to a partition on using an Ubuntu Live CD. [Ubuntu plug because they are great]

Some notes:

1. ShuttleX onboard sound worked.
2. Onboard Network did not work. D-Link DGE-530T also did not work. Netgear GA311 works great!
3. Video card is an ATI 9000, it works with no tweaks. Does not seem to be Accelerated
4. TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552B Samsung OME 2.5xDL DVD+-R works perfectly. I love this drive.
5. Maxxuss-SSE3-to-SSE2_v0.4 works well for me [and seems to have fixed some video tearing]
6. I have yet to be able to shutdown without having to force the machine off, it hangs at the last screen. Or I am too impatient to let it finish.
7. I had to delete AppleTPMACPI.kext for the obvious reasons.
8. I fixed permissions without issue.
9. I can’t connet to other smb servers by name I have to use ip numbers.
10. I only have 512 MB of RAM, yet its reporting 1GB [odd]

I am using my new Tiger OSx86 to post this. I’m all tingly.
love
carl
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