It's a CLI python app, so I'd have though that it was Windows friendly.
I spent days trying to organise my collection of music (and still haven't suceeded). It's in many formats. In the past I've stripped metadata and just relied on file names, and file structure. I've later re-added it, due to helping playback on some devices. Tagging generally annoys me, and doesn't bring me much. The thing I'd quite like is sleeve notes, and good track info, who wrote the song, which artists played on it etc.
Anyway I have tried a mix of quodlibet/exfalso (with plugins), foobar2k(with wine), mp3tag, and shell scripts. Then I discovered beets, and thought wow that's great. Only to later forget about the application and return to the laborious task of sorting out my files. I rediscovered beets and tested it on a directory of music and was pretty impressed with the ease of it all and the results. Far easier than attempting it by hand.
Having said that the bit that takes me the longest is gathering up and organising orphans. If they are albums, I have to get them into order, then try and locate the tags. Or pepper the files with enough clues, for a tagger. It's all a bit of a yawn fest.
Which reminds me, I bothered to apply replay gain to most of my albums with foobar2k but that sometimes results with very quiet playback on some albums on one of my players at least. I then curse profusely, and just want to rip all of the metadata back out, or even just throw the lot away...
That's a bit of a holy grail. Because you need the shuffle to track your mood. I found that it really subdues my listening, in that I don't always want some punk music interupting a mellow interlude. So I've gone back to listening to albums, or crafted playlists.
There are album fillers, and there are tunes that are just bad, and they are better gone. Though granted, the holes don't feel quite right.
I'm trying to understand your MusicBrainz remark, are albums with missing tracks unidentifiable?
You raise a good point about mood tracking. I've found that iTunes's genius shuffle does a decent job of shuffling a single genre of music, so you don't generally get harsh interruptions.
The holy grail is most definitely a library (or app) where you click "shuffle all" and enjoy every song it plays. Songza, genius shuffle, 8tracks etc. all try to tackle this, but I still think we're far from that point.
I'd be nervous buying DRM'd content from a supplier that may not be around in the future. But renting I could care less - unless I paid for years upfront - but you generally don't do that.
As someone that likes to pretty much always override author's styles, Chrome is pretty much out for me. There is no easy way in the browser settings to select your own stylesheet. Also there is no easy way to just turn off the author's stylesheet. Doing so can be quite useful for troublesome sites. In Firefox it's View -> Page Style -> None. But even that's obtuse. Not being able to easily flip between stylesheets in the browsers - has meant that author's can't really be bothered to supply them. Having some free well rounded Core styles, that users can apply to any site would be a nice to have feature in the browser, or alternatively making it very simple to add your own.
Opera is the only browser that felt like it let me apply my own stylesheet. Other browers behave inconsistantyl when adding my own. Even Firefox is odd. My compromise is just to specify foreground and background colours, with a larger font size, and an easy to read font. That way the layouts don't get that borked. Reading a well designed page with logical flow off can read quite well, if you apply your own styles, or use your desktops.
I override all web fonts, I just want to use a readable one. There's a noticable trend with embedding icons in fonts. Yahoo mail uses them. This doesn't feel quite right, even if it is a neat hack, and it can be annoying.
Mail selection with Yahoo is tricky, but it's mostly usable. The current iteration is way better than it has been. (They've fixed back button integration. )
Google use a lot of buttons without text, using icons instead, which a lot of the time are background images. This lends to a lot of mystery meat navigation. Google+ is a bit of nightmare on that front for me.
I don't think my setup is that exotic, all I'm doing is trying to use consistent background and foreground colours, font and text size.
It's amazing how many sites seem to gloss over accessibility.
Imitation aside, the novel thing about this adaptation, is that it practices your typing pace and control. Other typing games focus more on raw speed. Some tutors report/measure your typing rate (Klavaro - fluidity, Amphetype - viscosity). This might some otherway. Though it's doing my shoulder in.
I'd barely notice glass if it looked like that, far less prominent than bluetooth headsets or white headphones, or people clutching smartphones and bumping into each other, or just randomly standing stationary like the zombies that we've become gazing into our navals, I mean smart phones.
I spent days trying to organise my collection of music (and still haven't suceeded). It's in many formats. In the past I've stripped metadata and just relied on file names, and file structure. I've later re-added it, due to helping playback on some devices. Tagging generally annoys me, and doesn't bring me much. The thing I'd quite like is sleeve notes, and good track info, who wrote the song, which artists played on it etc.
Anyway I have tried a mix of quodlibet/exfalso (with plugins), foobar2k(with wine), mp3tag, and shell scripts. Then I discovered beets, and thought wow that's great. Only to later forget about the application and return to the laborious task of sorting out my files. I rediscovered beets and tested it on a directory of music and was pretty impressed with the ease of it all and the results. Far easier than attempting it by hand.
Having said that the bit that takes me the longest is gathering up and organising orphans. If they are albums, I have to get them into order, then try and locate the tags. Or pepper the files with enough clues, for a tagger. It's all a bit of a yawn fest.
Which reminds me, I bothered to apply replay gain to most of my albums with foobar2k but that sometimes results with very quiet playback on some albums on one of my players at least. I then curse profusely, and just want to rip all of the metadata back out, or even just throw the lot away...