Headphones - Music albums & artists auto download program

server is down for upgrades, rembo said it would be back soon. you can follow it on headphones github

its back now

Hi All,

As a new user of Headphones could I check a couple of things with you:

Firstly I donated and got a username, etc, but when I try to use that mirror all I get is for example:


If I switch back to the standard MusicBrainz mirror it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Is this normal for the more experienced users, and is it just a case of keep trying until things work? I've emailed the dev but without reply as yet (though only yesterday, so I am a little impatient).

My second question is there doesn't seem to be any way of really knowing if it's working or if it's bombed. Is intermittent refreshing or checking the log the only way of knowing?

This isn't a crticism of the dev, as it's obvious the package works for many people and sounds quite a feat of cat-herding to keep it running at all. Just trying to make sure I've not missed something in the set up or whether I've joined at the moment things are being overhauled and this is likely to be causing some issues.

Thanks

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EDIT: Dev just emailed to say he is still working on server and is checking the problem.

(2013-02-25 23:34)dr_frankenstein Wrote:  

(2013-02-20 18:52)gibxxi Wrote:  The trouble with the way Headphones matches tracks is that different releases.....

I am getting the same issues, I re-tagged my entire collection via musicbrainz picard everything is now perfectly tagged including the Musicbrainz id's (it was a dire state before and will never be using anything else to tag my music again), I still have a fair few albums that are not matched to the correct releases, its all a bit odd as I would have thought it would search for the release tag first then move on to the next best... its nothing a quick switch over release wise doesn't fix but it would be good for it to work first time

I still love the program its great and makes life nice and easy for grabbing new music especially after going VIP

Just seen this. I can't work with Picard, it makes my head spin. So being used to MusicMatch Jukebox (back in the old days) and now MediaMonkey I prefer to stick with that. Luckily enough there is a MusicBrainz Tagger script floating about on the MediaMonkey forums, which works, although it's not been updated in a while as far as I can tell and will sometimes choke if fields in your MP3 tags are blank / missing. But it gets the job done for me. Its called MusicBrainzTaggerNGS (v1.25).