LordMortis wrote:Is there a basic MP3 Player that can like/dislike and sort and move folders? I'd breakdown and get one in heartbeat.
If you mean for PC, and you can get by with extremely minimal functionality, I'll make it available when I complete it
The initial version of my totally awesome, ridiculously feature rich tool can be found here. It is hopefully pretty self-explanatory, but just in case:
on launch it will prompt you for a set of folders
MP3 Folder - where your MP3s are
Like Folder - where your "liked" MP3s will go
Dislike Folder - where your "disliked" MP3s will go
Ignored Folder - optional folder where MP3s you don't like/dislike will go
Once you've configured it and started playing through the files...
Right-click will "dislike" an MP3
Left-click will "like" an MP3
Double-click will "like" an MP3 and immediately advance to the next MP3
The clicking features should work almost anywhere within the application. About the only places it won't trigger a like/dislike is on the progress bar and the fields showing the contents of the ID3 tags. I use it by maximizing the application while working on my main PC. Then I can just use the mouse for my MP3 PC just to make judgments while using my main PC.
This tool does no specific sorting. The first MP3 file that it happens to find will be the first one that it plays.
Something that I may add is the ability to play a tone or something when the tool successfully proccesses a like/dislike/ignore.
Active Child
Admiral Fallow
Agent Ribbons
Agesandages
Albertans
Alcholic Faith Mission
AM
American Fangs
Amplified Heat
Analog Rebellion
Andrew Allen
Andrew Belle
ANR
Answering Machine
Apache Relay
Automatic Love Letter
AWOLNATION
Babeshadow
Baron Von Luxxury
Batwings Catwings
Bears of Blue River
Bearsuit
Belleruche
Birds & Batteries
Bliss n Eso
Bloodgroup
Body Language
BRAHMS
Candie and the Strangers
CAPYBARA
Carusella
Cast Spells
The Casualty Process
Celldweller
Chain Gang of 1974
CHAPPO
Charlie Mars
Colleen Green
Collie Buddz
Computer Magic
Cruel Black Dove
Cults
Dan Dyer
De Staat
Deer Tracks
DELS
The Delta Mirror
The Details
Dexter Freebish
Diplomats of Solid Sound
Dolorean
Dom
DVAS
Ebony Bones
Elephant Stone
Empress Hotel
Evaline
Fake Problems
Family of the Year
Fare Soldi
Foster the People
French Horn Rebellion
Friska Viljor
Gabby Young
Geographer
The Glass
Gold Motel
Goldheart Assembly
Grand Pianoramax
A Big Pile of Leaves
Grieves
GT Garza
Ham Sandwich
Harrys Gym
The HEad and the HEart
Hell and Lula
Hood Internet
Hoodie Allen
Hope Atlantic
Hounds Below
Jeremy Messersmith
Jesse Main & THe St Marks Social
Jesse Thomas
The Jezebals
Jim Bianco
Johnny Polygon
K.Flay
King of Spain
Kopecky Famly Van
LEE MACDOUGAL
Les Handclaps
Liptonians
Little Red
Madness
Maggie Walters
Melovskys
Moneybrother
My Gold Mask
Natalie Prass
Nelo
New Roman Times
Nid and Sancy
Orbans
Parlotones
Pontiak
Pop Up Animal Kids
Pricks
Prof
Quiet Company
Ramesh
Rams Pocket Radio
Reptar
Rich Aucoin
Riff Raff
River City Tanlines
Stars on 45
Schmillion
Seedy Seeds
Sheepdogs
Shit Robot
Small Sins
Submarines
Stay Soft
Sunbears
Sweatshop Union
Sweet jane
T.E.V
Talking to Turtles
Tumbledryer Babies
US Royalty
Unfamilar Friends Party
Viper Creek Club
Viva Viva
Volkova Sisters
Walk the Moon
We are The Ocean
WhoMadeWho
Young Empires
Zoroaster
I haven't finished my first pass yet. Still got 170 songs in the Raw folder. So far I've collected 102 Keepers and 251 Maybes. After I clean out the Raw folder I'll go through the Maybes, then a final pass through Keepers. Typically I end up keeping around 200 songs altogether.
Comparing my Keepers folder with your list, there is only one single match in A-C (Cruel Black Dove).
I ended up keeping 195 songs out of this year's download. I didn't quite finish my final review pass, but I ran out of time. Going on vacation tomorrow so I have to burn CDs for my car today.
Isgrimnur wrote:I just finished downloading all the previous years and am attempting to work my way through them. I think I'm in the late Bs of 2005.
It takes me months to sort through each year doing two passes (the first pass includes a "maybe" folder and the second pass gets rid of it). I consistently end up keeping about 15% of the songs each year.
I've moved into the Cs. Most of the metal and rap is getting pretty quickly dropped into a 1-star rating for most likely eventual deletion. The metal I might forward to a friend of mine.
I'd say 15% is about the percentage I'm marking for removal. Most of it is suitable for background music. If it's decent and non-offensive, it gets to play unmolested. After completion, I'll run through it again a time or two and see if anything pushes itself more into my consciousness, either for removal or an investigation of artist support.
Thanks for this. I've grabbed files for a couple years in the past, but it's largely gotten lost in the shuffle of new CPUs recently. This seems like a good time to grab some/most and sift through again for some more new music.
For those of you intimidated by the sheer enormity of the full torrent, NPR's All Songs Considered has culled through this year's choices and put together a streamable and downloadable collection of their favorite 100 songs:
And for those of you who just can't get enough, part 2 of this year's torrent is up.
So far I've listened to 236 songs. 43 made the "keepers" folder and 69 are in the "maybes." That's only 114 outright rejects, which is a pretty good ratio.
jimbo wrote:And for what looks like possibly the last time thanks to a switch to Soundcloud links here is the 2014 SXSW Torrent
Oh well, it was a good ride and I didn't think it could last forever. This annual release has been the totality of my new music for 10 years and I've collected nearly 2,000 good songs from it. Maybe the artists will realize that they're getting only a fraction of the exposure they got from the torrent downloads.
Thanks for the heads up, I was just thinking that it was about due again.
I've ignored this for years but for some reason I've started the downloads for 2015 and 2014. When will I ever find the time to listen to thousands of songs?
geezer wrote:...and so my annual road trip to get the hell out of Austin commences....
I can only imagine. I think maybe it would have been cool up until about the time I was 30. Somewhere in my 30s it would become nothing but an inconvenience to my workweek. I used to want to go down and "do SxSW" Now I'd just see it as a logistic nightmare of way to not enjoy myself while trying to enjoy myself.
geezer wrote:...and so my annual road trip to get the hell out of Austin commences....
I can only imagine. I think maybe it would have been cool up until about the time I was 30. Somewhere in my 30s it would become nothing but an inconvenience to my workweek. I used to want to go down and "do SxSW" Now I'd just see it as a logistic nightmare of way to not enjoy myself while trying to enjoy myself.
Still, I like to sample music.
Yeah - It's actually not so much my workday that it wrecks, but my evenings and weekends. Can't get a dinner reservation, street are closed off so I can't get anywhere and half my neighbors think they're a "venue," so I get music of widely varying quality blasting through my walls until midnight for two weeks.
jimbo wrote:The link for part 1 is up, and it looks like the Sound Cloud debacle will not ruin this years torrent.
So glad to hear that! This has been my only source of new music for the past 10 years. Weeding 1000+ songs down to 150-200 keepers takes me months, but is totally worth it. I don't know what soundcloud is, I just know that it was threatening to take away my free songs. I demand my free songs!
Reading a day by day exchange between McDonald's and a band called Ex Cops. I had no idea artist tend to make the big goose egg at SxSW. That's nuts. N V T S nuts. $200 per paid attendance for 55,000 people, one giant corporate sponsorship to show young people how cool corporation are, plus all of the money for drinking and eating and hoteling and commuting and the bands tend to make nothing?
In all, SXSW drove $218.2 million into the Austin economy, according to an economic analysis of the event. That figure includes $88.3 million from the year-round operation of the company and event-specific expenditures and $129.9 million in local business support from attendees.
Speaking of attendees, that was a new record too. The event's core events drew 41,700 registrants. The number of total participants, or people who attended at least one SXSW activity reached 155,000. Even the high-end passes posted big gains, with platinum badge holders up nearly 60 percent.
I've been so out of touch for music. I really should download this and throw it on mp3 player for the car. There's a lot of crap to wade through though and I'm an impatient music listener.