[rfu-automation] Fwd: Music library meeting Tuesday 2:00pm at WRFU production room

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

FYI

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Alex Svec <ajsvec at illinois.edu>
> Date: October 26, 2008 5:37:59 PM CDT
> To: Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org>
> Cc: mtaylo22 at illinois.edu, critz1 at illinois.edu, fonzo.stephen at gmail.com 
> , ajsvec at illinois.edu
> Subject: Music library meeting Tuesday 2:00pm at WRFU production room
> Reply-To: ajsvec at illinois.edu
>
> Call for a music library meeting on Tuesday at 2:00pm at WRFU  
> production/automation room, any one interested in this project is  
> welcome to attend.
>
> Hi Andrew, I agree with you that now would be a good time to meet to  
> discuss the music library project further since there seems to be  
> many important concerns that need to be addressed in order to make  
> this project continue.
>
> I was wondering if you could meet Maggie and I this Tuesday at  
> 2:00pm to discuss the music library project and this way we can show  
> you what we have worked on so far with the inventory, and then we  
> can work out a plan on what to do next to improve on our plan to  
> make sure we stay on the right track and come up with something that  
> will benefit the radio station and the IMC.
>
> Could we meet at the WRFU production room/automation room at 2:00pm  
> Tuesday?
>
> Thank you very much for your time and let me know if Tuesday at  
> 2:00pm at WRFU production room will work.
>
> Best
> Alex Svec
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:42:21 -0500
>> From: Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org>
>> Subject: Re: Library project
>> To: ajsvec at illinois.edu
>> Cc: mtaylo22 at illinois.edu
>>
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>> When you say you're typing the file folder names and data into an
>> Excel file, I wonder if there's a more efficient way to do this - my
>> version of iTunes (iTunes 8 on Mac OS X) includes an 'export library'
>> function that produces an xml file, which would make importing into
>> Excel rather simple (and at worst involve some cutting and pasting
>> rather than re-typing). This should significantly speed up your work,
>> if you are currently manually typing in details, as you seem to be
>> implying.
>>
>> I'm also unclear about the purpose of generating this XL file. Is it
>> intended to facilitate further analysis on your part, or do you
>> envisage it becoming part of our work-process when adding new files
>> into the future? If the latter, I'd be concerned about whether
>> volunteers will complete this additional step when adding new  
>> material
>> to our library. I'm guessing this might be more likely to occur if we
>> can provide a compelling rationale for the value of this secondary
>> inventory, in addition to the one generated automatically within  
>> iTunes.
>>
>> I don't mean to dismiss the work you're undertaking, but I guess  
>> I'm a
>> little unclear as to what exactly it is you intend to accomplish from
>> the current inventory-taking, and whether there might be ways to
>> achieve those goals that were both more efficient for you, and more
>> likely to be continued (where appropriate) by future volunteers. I'm
>> anxious to help you so the project is helpful and rewarding both for
>> you and for the station as a whole.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Oct 25, 2008, at 2:02 PM, Alex Svec wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Andrew, I had some time to look at this email in more detail this
>>> weekend and I will give you an update on the current plan of the
>>> project for the next couple of weeks.  In response to the email,
>>> there are a lot of good suggestions and concerns that will be
>>> keeping in mind when we work on this project.  However,we are still
>>> in the inventory stage of the local music library project from
>>> automation i-tunes folder so we are not ready to jump on to the
>>> technology side of the project or website yet.
>>>
>>> We are only working with inventory of the current local music
>>> automation files from i-tunes which takes up only about 4 GB of disk
>>> space on the 10GB hard drive (the 10 GB drive I had donated by my
>>> dad which I placed into the external hard drive shell I bought) I
>>> explained this to Stephen last Tuesday when Maggie and I met with
>>> him at 2:00pm. Maggie and I are hanging on to this external built
>>> hard drive for the scope of the project so we can work on this in
>>> our free time.
>>>
>>> These local music folders on the external hard drive were from the  
>>> i-
>>> tunes folder only.  To clarify, we are not working with the PSA's or
>>> any of the non local content since this seems to change weekly as
>>> you mention in the email. Dealing with all files would be too much
>>> for the scope of our project right now.
>>>
>>> Our plan right now until the next meeting in November which is the
>>> third Saturday is to continue with the inventory of local automation
>>> music folders from i-tunes on the external hard drive I have and to
>>> continue to sort these into two folders, clean and unknown.  After
>>> doing this, I am going to continue to update a Microsoft Excel
>>> spread sheet which will document all of the local music automation
>>> folders into a written inventory which includes artist name, album
>>> name, song name, and clean or unknown.  At this point, I am typing
>>> in the file folder names and data exact to what was originally
>>> labeled on the folders in the i-tunes folder and the mp3 file names
>>> are what was of the original labels.
>>>
>>> Once inventory and inventory spreadsheet is finished for local
>>> automation music on our external hard drive, then I would like to
>>> meet with you and IMC tech group to report on our findings and then
>>> discuss where to go further with this project before transferring
>>> local music files back onto G-drive so that we do not overwrite any
>>> of the non local music or any of the PSA's in i-tunes.  For now,
>>> will try and have this inventory ready by our next Saturday general
>>> meeting in November.
>>>
>>> If you have any further questions with this project plan or
>>> concerns, let us know.
>>>
>>> Best
>>> -Alex Svec
>>

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