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 j2brown
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Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:51 am Post subject: Main tiltes, etc |
 
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Has anybody given any thought to renaming all the "Main Titles" etc. tracks to be something like Main Titles - $MOVIE_NAME so that they can be played again?
This might be a big job (based on the playlist we got on SSTs birthday) but it could probably be automated in MySQL and/or broken up and done in chunks.
Maybe it'll be fixed upstream as well, though.
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Sounds like a good idea....
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Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately this is a big job that only Jeric can do, as far as I know.
but it is a solution to the problem.
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Caliburn
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Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:03 am Post subject: |
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The other admins can probably help. JERIC was curious and looked op the number of "Main Title" trakcs. This appears to be 594 tracks alone. Dont think it is feasible to implement this.
For the record. JERIC is patiently poking the SAM creators to fix this very amateuristic bug. |
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j2brown
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I thought that me might be looking for an upstream fix from the SAM folks. I also knew that it might be a big job. However, I also thought that the task might be able to be automated. I've got just a small amount of experience in MySQL and have done simpler automated tasks in the past (usually just updates, though). If I get a chance to do some research I'll report back. I don't expect it's worth the trouble to do it by hand. However, if it can be automated (and even done in such a way that allows it to be easily undone once SAM is fixed) then maybe it's something JERIC will consider.
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Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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I'm open to a automated solution. If people wouldn't select songs that are already in queue this wouldn't be much of an issue.
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j2brown
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| If people wouldn't select songs that are already in queue this wouldn't be much of an issue. |
I thought the issue was that once a "Main Titles" was played then no other "Main Titles" could be played until the 8 day limit on the first one ran out. What does that have to do with something already in the queue? Is there another problem I'm not aware of or am I confused on the issue?
Also, some info on the MySQL box might be helpful so I can be sure that any solution that I find will work (OS, MySQL version, etc.). Don't post details here, though. Do it via PM or somewhere that the whole world won't see.
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Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is if the song name rules ARE enforced then for example, we cannot request "Main Titles" for 6 months.
The problem is of the song name rules are NOT enforced then people can request the same song over and over until it has played. That means 1 song can be repeated in the queue many times because it hasn't officially played yet.
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j2brown
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Wed Aug 31, 2005 5:48 am Post subject: |
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If I follow you right, what you're saying is that SAM marks a song as played when it hits the queue, not when it is actually played. That makes sense to me. Is that related to the "Main Titles" issue, though? Maybe that's where I'm confused.
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Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:29 am Post subject: |
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Nope, SAM marks it as played once it hits the history list. The problem is if the rules aren't enforced people can keep requesting stuff that is already in the queue because the song hasn't been officially played.
We have the rules enforced now which causes our current problem of having the song names not requestable in 8 days. We need it to look at the song ID not song name. SAM is lacking this feature and will hopefully be added soon.
Thanks for posting on the SA forums. 
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j2brown
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Which rule is being enforced that keeps people from requesting something already in the queue? How is that related to the "Main Titles" issue? Argh. I'm so confused. (Nothing new here.) Oh well. It's not important that I understand, really. I'm just curious like that (and I suspect that I'm just missing a simple thing).
If I get any time (maybe toward the end of Sept) I'll still give a shot at automating the song title changes in MySQL.
No problem about the SA post. I hope it helps.
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Caliburn
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Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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I dont think it is an SQL thing. I think sql extracts its info from the ID3 tags. dunno what the behaviour will be. |
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j2brown
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Now I think I've confused Cal. I know the problem isn't an SQL thing, but the temorary fix might be.
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NathanDahlin
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Thu Sep 01, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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I actually had the exact same idea (changing the "Main Titles" track names to include the movie title). Perhaps I still don't understand the situation, either, but is there no way for us to help JERIC manually edit all the tracks? Granted, there are nearly 600 of them, but how long does it take to edit a track? Surely one could do the whole job with just a few hours of work.
Forgive my impatience, but I use to administrate a discussion forum whose tech admin was basically AWOL, so I hate having to wait for someone who may or may not eventually get around to fixing something. My impatience could be unfounded; I just don't know how good the SAM folks are about checking in regularly. How long have you guys been waiting for them to get to this fix? |
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Caliburn
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Fri Sep 02, 2005 4:18 am Post subject: |
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The issue has been brought up to them on March 9th. The only response I have seen is
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I'll see what I can do, but cant promise implementation.
This would have significant effects on core parts of the code. |
I still think changing all those track names is not a good idea. I am not into SAM like JERIC so this is just a guess. Changing ID3 tags will probably result in reloading the album in SAM which would mess up our statistics. And hacking in the SQL database should be done as less as possible. JERIC will prolly agree on that with me ;-) |
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