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LuKreme | 20 Aug 04:44

Anyone use iEatBrainz?

I ran iEatBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/) and ran it through a  
playlist to fingerprint a bunch of songs and get artisst/album info.   
This works fine, but when I try to update the tags, I get the  
following error:

	Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417 of
	«class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of
	application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700)

I ran it again and selected only about 30 songs to update, and got the  
same error.

OK, fine, I ran it again and selected just one song to update.    You  
guessed it:

	Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417
	of «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of
	application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700)

OK, so maybe it's the first song in the list that is the problem....

	Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 37976
	of «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of
	application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700)

Sigh.  The app has no way to recover from this error, btw, and must be  
force-quit.

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steve harley | 20 Aug 08:47

Re: Anyone use iEatBrainz?

they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
> I ran iEatBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/) and ran it through a playlist 
> to fingerprint a bunch of songs and get artisst/album info.  This works 
> fine, but when I try to update the tags, I get the following error:
> 
>     Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417 of
>     «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of
>     application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700)

this error is noted on this page:

<http://6v8.gamboni.org/?page=article&id_article=211>

as breakage caused by some sort of change in the the latest 
version of iTunes

i looked at the AppleScript in the source, i can identify the 
line where the error occurs; it looks like there's a problem with 
data passed in from the Cocoa side

the bug is entered into the sourceforge project (maybe by you?), 
but the project is looking pretty stale

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LuKreme | 20 Aug 09:05

Re: Anyone use iEatBrainz?

On 20-Aug-2008, at 00:47, steve harley wrote:
> they whom i call LuKreme wrote:
>> I ran iEatBrainz (http://musicbrainz.org/) and ran it through a  
>> playlist to fingerprint a bunch of songs and get artisst/album  
>> info.  This works fine, but when I try to update the tags, I get  
>> the following error:
>>    Can’t make «class pDID» of {«class cFlT» id 35417 of
>>    «class cLiP» id 25125 of «class cSrc» id 51 of
>>    application "iTunes"} into type string. (-1700)
>
> this error is noted on this page:
>
> <http://6v8.gamboni.org/?page=article&id_article=211>

Ah, I had trouble even doing a google search for it...

> the bug is entered into the sourceforge project (maybe by you?)

Nah, hadn't gotten that far.

> , but the project is looking pretty stale

It looks like the project is abandoned.  I got MusicBrainz Picard  
which is a horrible looking app that was designed by... I dunno, linux  
monkeys I guess.  It took me a stupidly long time to figure out how to  
get it to lookup and retag some music, but it took 520 tracks with  
missing info and tagged 398 of them.  Not bad. Especailly considering  
5 tracks were videos (oops) and another 17 were live recordings.

so 398 out of 498 which is 80%.

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