your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

so guys, I'm looking for an app to clean up my iTunes music collection, maybe correcting tags and titles, with a special focus on getting missing album artwork. I've seen a few apps here and there but reviews are always quite negative and prices steep. Can anyone recommend something? CoverScout looks cool (fetches missing album artwork from a numebr of websites) but at 20 bucks, I'd like to make sure that ita ctually works as adverstised.

doesnt itunes do that automagically?

it's supposed to - but it fails quite often.

I've never used it but know folk who swear by Jaikoz.

J'accuse

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

i tried it. bit linuxy (i.e. awful UI), but pretty good at matching stuff. overview in podcast form at http://5by5.tv/b2w/104.

Is there a program out there that isolates duplicate audio files but by their waveforms (or by some other clever device) and not metadata?

Not that I'm aware of. I doubt that anything can match identical songs at different bit rates, etc.

http://www.lairware.com/songsergeant/ is a good one for library analysis

Thanks for the suggestion - I bought Jaikoz but so far I'm completely lost. Seems this is really way beyond my needs but I'll try to skim through the user manual.

Is there a program out there that isolates duplicate audio files but by their waveforms (or by some other clever device) and not metadata?

― MaresNest, Wednesday, February 5, 2014 6:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bet this is possible but would take forever to analyze a 1000+ library

I guess Shazaam does this pretty quickly.

Right now I'm loving Skip Tunes, a little hoonja doonja to control itunes, Spotify and Rdio from the menu bar.

Looking for a hoonja doonja that would automatically monitor my entire iPhoto library and sync it with Flickr (so far I've only found automatic uploaders of new photo files, which is not exactly the same thing).

I think there are plug-ins for Lightroom if you wanted to switch to Adobe. It's a far better program in many other ways.

Lightroom 4 has Flickr integration built in

OneNote for Mac is out. I know PC people that rave about this. http://blogs.office.com/2014/03/17/introducing-onenote-for-mac/

plain text for my notes
URLs to link to everything else
that is all i want

almost there, just wish dropbox was smarter - if I click a URL and I'm on a machine with my files synced locally, just (somehow) open the file please

can't remember if I plugged it, but I've been using Wunderlist as my to-do program. It's the to-do program I've always wanted. And doing my taxes I realize I actually spent money on the Things app and desktop app, when it is totally useless compared to Wunderlist.

Nice simple layout, sub-tasks, sharing etc. Everything I need.

There are too many list apps!

if only there was some way to keep track of them all

Just gonna throw my hands in the air, and use the free copy of Clear I downloaded at some point

I just use apple reminders for lists.

1. Wunderlist is better than all of those.
2. That's all you need to know.

and maybe not so little, but after spending a good deal of time trying to figure out how to build my own database application for as little money and technical knowledge as possible, I found Zoho Creator. Within minutes I had built an online client and job tracking system. Not free, but cheaper than buying Filemaker and easier to use than anything else I tried.

FWIW, I'm using Apple reminders too. Don't need anything more than that.

No sub-tasks though, right?

i use list apps and then i get too many to dos and then i abandon the app out of fear. this has happened more than once.

also i like trello a lot.

Trello is really great, yep.

This oneNote is quite nice, too. I hope the new outlook's like this.

No sub-tasks though, right?

No. I don't have a need for that myself as I break everything out into separate task lists.

https://usetorpedo.com/

BetterTouchTool has been lifechanging.

A few hours left for this. I got it for Fantastical (which is really nice so far) and Tangerine (which I'm hoping will help me make good BPM playlists for running. There are a few other decent-looking apps in there too.
https://exclusives.macappdeals.com/sales/the-name-your-own-price-summer-productivity-bundle-ft-path-finder-fantastical

Sunrise Calendar. Syncs with Facebook events...but only imports events you've rsvpd yes or maybe to! I've wanted this for a LONG time.

Vienna 3 finally out of beta. http://www.vienna-rss.org/?p=428

Highly recommend it for RSS reading.

any thoughts on a good Mac or iOS way to turn voice recordings into text? Siri is pretty good at it in real time, but I want to be able to record myself talking for a while and then have software turn what I've said into text. this must be like the most obvious thing ever but I don't know what to look for! ideally I could do it on my iphone but talking to the laptop (or transferring a voice memo from my phone to my mac) is ok too.

basically sometimes I find myself teeming with well-organized thoughts but when I sit down to type them I get too psyched out by having to get those thoughts "just right" and I just want to let my thoughts ~flow~

(interviewers must have software like this, no?)

Dragon is the standard in healthcare (for dictating clinical notes)

Dragon seems to be the most popular name in the business, since they've been doing the speech-command thing for years, makes sense they got a handle on the reverse

Could just use the speech-to-text that's built into Yosemite: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18731

Oooh, didn't know about that

yeah maybe I could just play voice memos from my phone into yosemite that seems kinda 80s but maybe it'll do the trick

Be sure to post the results here: Read where you make your posts by using the microphone don't correct anything

i used to have a little app that lived in my menu bar and with which i could set a custom hourly (or other time period) reminder. it was clean and lightweight and for the life of my i cant find it again. anyone have anyidea???

I used to use pomodoro timers which might be similar?

nah, it wasnt a pomodoro branded thing at all, just something you'd set up to ping you once an hour or once every 45 minutes

tinyalarm?

that's not it, but looks like it will work for my purposes. thanks.

this was it http://lifehacker.com/5987547/remindmeagain-is-a-simple-reminder-app-that-lives-in-your-menubar

no longer available!

RIP remind me megan