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My fondest memory of Picard is the time it cheekily rewrote all my Russian music (Rachmaninoff and all that) into actual Russian with their alphabet, and how I

My fondest memory of Picard is the time it cheekily rewrote all my Russian music (Rachmaninoff and all that) into actual Russian with their alphabet, and how I never could find any of it after that.

stego-tech 2y ago
Hah! Yeah, I whoopsied on some JP soundtracks a few times in the past as well. While world-ending the first time it happened, now I just view it as a glib, "oh _no_, now I have to relisten to the _whole album_ and figure out which track is which!"
redwall_hp 2y ago
That's partially why I started learning Japanese...Spotify used to use English translations of JP song titles, or romanizations at the least, but one day a few years ago I opened one of my playlists and found them all in kana and kanji.
- parski 2y ago
  I have this problem. Ever ID3 tag or whatever FLAC tag should be localized so you can select what localization you want. It's the only solution.
  - anjel 2y ago
    This feature is already available in settings.
  - stego-tech 2y ago
    Or we could expand the spec to contain alternate fields for a given tag. That way the default tag is in the origin language of the content, but alternate tags could surface localizations into search or display. The only downside is dusting off the ID3 spec, amending it, and then somehow coercing everyone who thought music tagging was “done” to update their software to support it. The software part of the solution is easy-peasy. The political part, infinitely harder.
fletchowns 2y ago
Always create a backup or snapshot before any major media reorganization :)
- cushpush 2y ago
  my middle name is danger
- rollcat 2y ago
  And people keep looking weird at me when I tell them I strongly prefer ZFS on the desktop... I really wish it was more mainstream.
  - stego-tech 2y ago
    To be fair, we (myself included) look at you weird because the ZFS folks haven’t done a great job at extolling its virtues in a way that the average consumer can comprehend. It’s important to acknowledge that the vast majority of consumers simply don’t care about the underlying file system or its capabilities, even if they would benefit immensely from the features of something like ZFS. It’s a problem of communications as much as it is vendor support. If you get the consumers wanting it, vendors will switch to it. Instead, right now we get companies like Apple reinventing the wheel via their own proprietary FS just to adopt some features of ZFS, rather than _just supporting and contributing to ZFS_. Which means I get to anxiously eye the Synology with btrfs instead of resting easy with ZFS. It’s better than ext4, but I also know I’m the exception rather than the rule.

My fondest memory of Picard is the time it cheekily rewrote all my Russian music (Rachmaninoff and all that) into actual Russian with their alphabet, and how I never could find any of it after that.

stego-tech 2y ago

Hah! Yeah, I whoopsied on some JP soundtracks a few times in the past as well. While world-ending the first time it happened, now I just view it as a glib, "oh _no_, now I have to relisten to the _whole album_ and figure out which track is which!"

redwall_hp 2y ago

That's partially why I started learning Japanese...Spotify used to use English translations of JP song titles, or romanizations at the least, but one day a few years ago I opened one of my playlists and found them all in kana and kanji.

parski 2y ago
I have this problem. Ever ID3 tag or whatever FLAC tag should be localized so you can select what localization you want. It's the only solution.
- anjel 2y ago
  This feature is already available in settings.
- stego-tech 2y ago
  Or we could expand the spec to contain alternate fields for a given tag. That way the default tag is in the origin language of the content, but alternate tags could surface localizations into search or display. The only downside is dusting off the ID3 spec, amending it, and then somehow coercing everyone who thought music tagging was “done” to update their software to support it. The software part of the solution is easy-peasy. The political part, infinitely harder.

fletchowns 2y ago

Always create a backup or snapshot before any major media reorganization :)

cushpush 2y ago
my middle name is danger
rollcat 2y ago
And people keep looking weird at me when I tell them I strongly prefer ZFS on the desktop... I really wish it was more mainstream.
- stego-tech 2y ago
  To be fair, we (myself included) look at you weird because the ZFS folks haven’t done a great job at extolling its virtues in a way that the average consumer can comprehend. It’s important to acknowledge that the vast majority of consumers simply don’t care about the underlying file system or its capabilities, even if they would benefit immensely from the features of something like ZFS. It’s a problem of communications as much as it is vendor support. If you get the consumers wanting it, vendors will switch to it. Instead, right now we get companies like Apple reinventing the wheel via their own proprietary FS just to adopt some features of ZFS, rather than _just supporting and contributing to ZFS_. Which means I get to anxiously eye the Synology with btrfs instead of resting easy with ZFS. It’s better than ext4, but I also know I’m the exception rather than the rule.