IEatBrainz Universal Build

Jay Tuley has done an excellent work developing an interface to the MusicBrainz acoustic fingerprints service. IEatBrainz provides an automatic tool to correct the track details directly into your iTunes library.

correct your iTunes track tags | 8 February 2008, by Mortimer

1iEatBrainz is Dead

Final Update, November 2008

I hadn’t tested iEatBrainz for a few month so I am not sure when this has happened but it seems that the servers are finally down, as MusicBrainz had announced a long time ago.

I am therefore not distributing the build for iEatBrainz anymore. If there is an interest in developping to get the new tagger compatible with Mac, I recommend you contact the Picard team and help them make it compatible with the Apple platform.

IEatBrainz development seems to be discontinued but it’s developer had the great idea to release the sources on SourceForge. The version available around for download has never worked properly on my Intel based macbook and no one seemed to be ready to distribute a universal build.

Update Jay Tuley just contacted me to explain why a universal build had never been released. Basically, the TRM fingerprinting system provided by MusicBrainz will be switched off in the upcoming weeks/days. After that, even if you can run IEatBrainz, it won’t find any result as the MusicBrainz servers won’t be answering the requests.

This had been announced last october and is not the fault of the developer of IEatBrainz. I will leave the package up for a while if you want to try your luck. Once the servers will be switched off, the package will be removed and we will have to wait on a willing developer to take on the change required to support the new MusicBrainz interfaces.

Date of online publication: 8 February 2008
last-update: 18 November 2008
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IEatBrainz Universal Build
8 February 2008 10:46, by Pierre Rudloff

Thanks so much for your work !
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Luck!
11 February 2008 03:19, by Kriana

I got this to run on leopard without difficulty. Thanks a lot!
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iTunes Library Location
13 February 2008 20:53

This sounds like a fantastic program, but I’ve been unable to use it. My main iTunes library is on an external hard drive — is there a way to choose the library file that iEatBrainz uses?
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- iTunes Library Location 14 February 2008 12:44, by Mortimer
  
  Ok, as I said, I have no time to offer support for this application as I am not a developer. I just happen to have managed to make the Universal build
  
  Anyway, I checked, it looks like it uses the default system to get where your iTunes library is, if it can’t find one under the default path ( /Music/iTunes/iTunes Music Library.xml. Do you have two different libraries?
  
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  - iTunes Library Location 19 February 2008 18:16
    
    Just put an alias into /Music/iTunes/ that leads to your library.
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  - iTunes Library Location 29 February 2008 20:05, by LDM
    
    Hello, This is a kind of related issue (updating library). I know yo are not providing support, so you may not care:-)
    
    I just wanted to make you aware of the fact that it seems like your build stopped working when the last round of updates came out from apple... Don’t know if it is related to leopard updates or itunes, but the program was working just fine, and after doing updates and restarting, it freezes when trying to update the itunes library with the matched songs... I’m currently running 10.5.2 for leopard and 7.6.1 for itunes. In my setup I also have the itunes music folder on an external (just music, not the library file) but it was working just fine before the updates. Now it crashes every time I say update all matched songs....
    
    If you ever get a chance to look at that it would be awesome, as the musicbrainz server is still up and I would love to continue using your app.
    
    Thanks anyway for the work you already did, as being able to use it while it lasted was great! I wish I had found out about your build sooner!
    
    LDM
    
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    - iTunes Library Location 3 March 2008 13:42, by Mortimer
      
      I just got Leopard installed, I will try to see if I find something when I have time.
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      - iTunes Library Location 5 March 2008 02:07
        
        I just updated 1,000+ songs in my iTunes 7.6.1 with OS X Leopard 10.5.2 and had no issues with updating files, etc. The only issue was that when it hit some podcasts from Diggnation it crashed, all I had to do was reopen the program and it asked to skip which it worked and continued flawlessly. I also tried it on OS X Leopard Server and also did not have any issues. For the prior, try running disk utility and make sure your permissions are correct and see what happens again after that when running the program.
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IEatBrainz Universal Build
21 July 2008 12:18, by Jussi

Firstly, thank you for the universal build.

It seems to still work for me, so the servers apparently did not shut down at least for good. I find iEatBrainz really slow, it is accessing the disk all the time. Could you make your changes to the project public so I could try to see if I can fix that.

Thanks,
J

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- IEatBrainz Universal Build 21 July 2008 16:39, by Mortimer
  
  The servers seems still up, but slow and with not much new stuff on it, and Picard project seems a bit slow to get ported to OS X.
  
  All the modifications were already made in the sources of iEatBrainz, I did not do anything there, so if you get it, then it should be ok. What I actually did was build the thing manually as the XCode build seems broken, i can’t really distribute this hack.
  
  Basically, you have to compile the libraries as external projects, then add them as Frameworks to the main XCode project.
  
  It would be cool to see improvements on this version of iEatBrainz, but there is no real point in investing time there as the servers are not guaranteed
  
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  - IEatBrainz Universal Build 21 July 2008 19:13, by Jussi
    
    Thanks for the tips about how to build. It builds now for me (with lots of warnings) and seems to work.
    
    I also made it a considerably faster when removing several files from the matching list. I moved [self updateStatusIcons] out of the -removeiTunesMatching to -removeiTunesMatchings after the loop. I can really feel the difference.
    
    J
    
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IEatBrainz Universal Build
23 July 2008 15:11

iTunes Library Location

HI mate - Great program

I find the connection to the server fine and I have no troubles accessing MusicBrainz... at least for the time being.... But has anyone else encountered issues when trying to update your iTunes with the matched songs ?? I get an error message - APPLE SCRIPT ERROR Can’t make « class pDID » of item 1 of "Error finding iTunes Track" into type string. (-1700)

Judging some of the stuff discussed above - I am trying to punch well above my weight.... Can anyone help ?

Jake

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- IEatBrainz Universal Build 31 July 2008 17:15, by Pierre R.
  
  I have the same error. Seems to be a problem with the last version of iTunes.
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- IEatBrainz Universal Build 8 August 2008 14:16
  
  I have the same problem it was working great until I upgraded.
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  - IEatBrainz Universal Build 8 August 2008 15:49, by Mortimer
    
    I am sorry everyone, as I say in the article, I bundled the thing, but have no time to offer support to the codebase. If anyone else wants to have a look at what changed in iTunes applescript, all this is open source, so go on
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- IEatBrainz Universal Build 8 August 2008 18:33
  
  I think we’re all having the same issue. Hopefully someone can fix the problem soon.
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  - IEatBrainz Universal Build 10 August 2008 14:27
    
    Someone is fixing it ? That’s great, iEatBrainz is great and I didn’t found something as efficient and simple. Thanks a lot for the one whos is fixing it
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    - IEatBrainz Universal Build 11 August 2008 20:16, by shogun
      
      I’ve tried to compile again the applescritp wich is on the source code (in sourceforge) but gives me an error...
      
      Anyone has tried ’cos I think the failure is there...in the applescript
      
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- IEatBrainz Universal Build 12 September 2008 23:35, by Pierre Rudloff
  
  Seems to work with iTunes 8
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  - IEatBrainz Universal Build 14 September 2008 21:45
    
    Updating to itunes 8 also fixed the AppleScript error message for me.
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