vale[ blog ] diary of the last hollow soul

I'm probably missing some elemental concept here. True, i'm not really present on any community site but Facebook… But it's really interesting how i can't find anyone on mixi. Even if i search by hometown, name or age, hardly ever can i find the right person. Most of the people apparently don't provide their full name or i don't know how it works, because as usual when registering i just clicked make everything public. I'm used to that no one has normal pictures of themselves, why would they, it's really fun to recognize someone i hardly remember anyway by the photo of a nice fluffy vanilla ice cream…
I'm really thinking of making a t-shirt with a bunch of stuff printed on it. On one side, i'd print all the answers to the questions related to my dreadlocks, and talk to me, i don't bite and add me on mixi on the other. Of course in japanese. The first, because it's really funny when i have to explain three times in ten minutes that yes, i can and actually have to wash my hair just normally, and that if i want to cut it that means i'm going bald (or close to it) for a while. The talk to me says all it needs to, and add me on mixi has to be there because of reasons above. I do have my real info there with a photo of me and not my favourite band, so i'm fairly easy to find.

Probably i'm the stupid one, but this is not the first time tagging mp3 files almost drove me crazy. Never had any such problems on Windows though, i could do whatever i wanted with foobar, or if i happened to be in the mood to give a track different id3v1 and id3v2 tags, Winamp. Not on linux though. I use Rhythmbox for music playback, edit tags with EasyTAG and do more serious stuff like stream tweaking and replay gain calculating with MP3 Diags. Today i copied an old Sex Machineguns (japanese heavy metal band) album from a backup cd, and wanted to fix the tags with the correct japanese spellings etc. That's where the fun began. In the beginning all tags were in english or romanized japanese. I changed the tags with EasyTAG and saved both id3v1 and v2. Calculated replay gain with MP3 Diags, and then realised that the id3v1 tags have the japanese text messed up, although it was saved in utf-8—which, as it turns out, isn't all that well supported in v1. So i deleted the v1 streams with Diag, and all seemed fine. Then i imported it all into Rhythmbox and as if nothing changed, it was still displaying the english-romaji titles. Neither with EasyTAG nor Diag could i see where it gets that data from, it even showed that after i theoretically purged everything but my selected streams with Diag. Tryed again a couple of times and before my nervous breakdown i decided to launch the Windows 7 virtual machine, install foobar and do it there. I was done in half a minute, and it's working all right. Windows scored.