Housekeeping
Richard David Precht is a dunce. That’s all.
Richard David Precht is a dunce. That’s all.
If procrastination is anxiety towards the imperfection of creation, maybe the best way around it is to adopt the idea that all creation are iterative steps towards perfection - even failed steps.
Apocryphon on squandering time
so random schmuck today finds himself in the following situation: if he goes anywhere, taking uber, all his travel is in [some usage database].
if he visits any website, both amazon and cloudflare have records, which can even be compared. how's that for ECC asciilifeform !
obviously if he pays anyone anything that's tracked. and in his dumbass case, this includes bitcoin
which he buys via amazon instance > cloudflare and he spends via amazon instance > cloudflare.
might as well use fucking visa rather than all this wastage.
then when i say bitcoin is not for the poor, people are like ‘oh noooo…’
why waste all the fucking cycles to do visa poorly ?
Mircea Popescu on payment anonymity
Buying a home is stupid. It may make sense in a strictly financial sense, but I think people who recommend buying your own house completely ignore opportunity cost of that money, and the fact that it locks you into the same career, house and area for many years. In my opinion, buying a home isn’t worth it.
Gabriel on The Hustle
Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis
when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create.
There’s a plugin for MusicBrainz Picard that works with tango.info, which has previously been discussed. Support for tango releases on MusicBrainz is notoriously spotty, since its focus lies mainly on English-language music released by major record labels in the Anglosphere. Hence, relying on MB tag data is not a viable option for mass tagging.
‘El Tango - Pasion y Emoción’ is a good example. The tango.info listing makes a few critical mistakes, so another source is needed. Probably the most complete and accurate information is provided by tango-dj.at.
This script that takes any tango-dj.at URL as input and
spits out formatted text that can be pasted into puddletag or MP3Tag:
scrape-tango-dj-at.py
The pattern, which of course can be modified: %title%~%artist%~%album%~%genre%~%year%~%composer%~%lyricist%~%vocal%
Best to use only a single album at a time.
Before writing the plugin for Picard, I had been using a hacked-together snippet of code for scraping tango.info. It is available here: tinfo.py.
May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each others arms.
If you must steal, steal kisses.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, for god's sake,
drink Whisky!
Since there wasn't a working one, I wrote a small plugin for picard that automatically fetches album and track information from tango.info.
Just put it into your plugin directory, and if your tracks have barcode tags, it will do all the magic for you. It currently sets genre, date and vocal(singer/s) metadata, but it can be easily adapted for other fields.
The code is here, including usage instructions.
Update: The plugin has been merged into picard-plugins, which means you should be able to download it directly from the picard website. It should be included in the next release of picard, which will be version 1.4.0.
The Indepentent of all papers managed to publish a heartfelt obituary for the magnificent Juan Carlos Cáceres. You should read it, if only for this snippet:
Fleeing the military dictatorship, he travelled via Spain to Paris, arriving, by chance but to his delight, in May 1968.
Imagine Phil Davison sitting there, smirking and altogether being very content with himself for producing this one great sentence.
Onto the music; very refreshing to hear nuevo without the ubiquitous presence of the bandoneón, and the rhythms… not really Candombe; something very similar, simple and moving.
Two pieces for late-night listening: Toca Tango and the great Tango Negro