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Christopher Parker marked one of inspired2apathy's replies in Songbird as useful. inspired2apathy replied to the idea "Last.fm-like multiple tag system".

Christopher Parker marked one of ruin's replies in Songbird as useful. ruin replied to the idea "Last.fm-like multiple tag system".

Christopher Parker marked one of Robert K.'s replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Robert K. replied to the idea "Adopt Gravatar support". Christopher Parker and 3 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Christopher Parker marked one of Robert K.'s replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Robert K. replied to the idea "Adopt Gravatar support". Christopher Parker and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

faaaab's reply to "Last.fm-like multiple tag system" was just promoted to the most useful! Christopher Parker and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Well it depend, if it has to create new metadata fields there is a compatibility problem I guess. But that's not how I see the things. For me, you would tag your song genre like this : "classical, soundtrack, movie, 80s" and that's how would the other mediaplayer see it but intelligent songbird would parse the string and see the four different genres as separate.
In fact I think it's just a regular panel filter view with a string parser to distinguish multiple genre separed with commas in a single field (well said like this it seems simple but I'm sure it's not that simple)

tylerstyle's reply to "Last.fm-like multiple tag system" was just promoted to the most useful! Christopher Parker and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

There already was this kind of discussion and I too think that music sorting and tagging needs to be the next big feature. But I think it should be rather the Tags on the files, that should be updated, rather then making it a media-player based thing. Interoperability is always a concern to me.
I don't want to spend hours of tagging my library, only to loose that information, when I switch players, or the code basis of songbird gets changed dramatically again and I have to start with a new profile.

No. For me, the gain would be less then the usage, if it would only be possible in the bird.

Christopher Parker started following the idea "Last.fm-like multiple tag system" in Songbird.

Christopher Parker marked one of Remorak's replies in Songbird as useful. Remorak replied to the idea "Genres and sub genres in filter panal".

Christopher Parker replied on February 22, 2009 23:37 to the idea "Adopt Gravatar support" in Get Satisfaction:

Gravatar support would be great. I hate having to go to many sites to update the same resource... in this case, an avatar. Gravatar, Pavatar (like Gravatar, but hosted on one's own server), or any other service that would give me more control over resources that identify me would be beneficial to me.

A comment on the problem "Not all group tags are being recognized." in StatusNet Inc.:

Similarly, in the string "(!debian)", !debian doesn't get turned into a link. – Christopher Parker, on February 19, 2009 16:47

Christopher Parker replied on February 19, 2009 16:27 to the problem "Not all group tags are being recognized." in StatusNet Inc.:

It would seem as though the other two dents don't have their group tags linked because the people aren't members of the groups. So, that narrows things down to just my dent.

Could it be due to punctuation, then? In the string "!gnu/!linux", !gnu gets turned into a link, but !linux doesn't.

Christopher Parker reported a problem in StatusNet Inc. on February 19, 2009 15:56:

Not all group tags are being recognized.

I just posted a dent to a few groups and only one of the group tags was turned into a link. When I visit the other two groups, my dent does not show up. I thought it was due to punctuation, however I noticed another dent with the same problem.

My dent: http://identi.ca/notice/2379893 (only !gnu is a link; !linux and !debian are not)
Other dent: http://identi.ca/notice/2345644 (!gnu is a link, but !linux is not, even though !linux is surrounded by spaces)

While typing this topic's description, someone responded to my dent. The response is also exhibiting the same issue: http://identi.ca/notice/2380008 (!debian is not a link, even though it is surrounded by spaces)

The !linux and !debian groups do exist, and I am a member of both of them, so it's not like that's the issue:

http://identi.ca/group/linux
http://identi.ca/group/debian

I show up at both http://identi.ca/group/debian/members and http://identi.ca/group/linux/members (search for cparker15)

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?

Christopher Parker marked one of Evan Prodromou's replies in StatusNet Inc. as useful. Evan Prodromou replied to the idea "is there any chance of a Firefox add-on".

Christopher Parker reported a problem in Consumers Union on January 23, 2009 22:36:

Fraudulent Billing Practices

My wife subscribed to ConsumerReports.org two years ago. At the end of her subscription, she cancelled. However, even after cancellation, our credit card was charged for renewal. After being unable to get the fraudulent charge reversed, we eventually forgot about it.

Fast-forward a year. The expiration date for the credit card that was used to sign up for the subscription had changed. Yet somehow, another charge was put through for a subscription renewal.

After calling the number for ConsumerReports.org complaining that we have been fraudulently charged yet again, they claim the second charge will be reversed. How they managed to charge an expired card is beyond me. This time, we will be reporting ConsumerReports.org to our credit card company for fraudulent activity. We will also be issuing a chargeback if the charges haven't been reversed within the week.

I was able to find one other very similar horror story concerning fraudulent billing practices at ConsumerReports.org: http://www.planetfeedback.com/index.p...

Christopher Parker marked one of ashughes' replies in Songbird as useful. ashughes replied to the idea "Watch-Folder = SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE". Christopher Parker and 5 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Christopher Parker marked one of VodkanLemons' replies in Songbird as useful. VodkanLemons replied to the idea "Watch-Folder = SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE". Christopher Parker and 2 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Uncle Spellbinder's reply to "Watch-Folder = SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE" was just promoted to the most useful! Christopher Parker and 7 other people think it's one of the best replies.

The only thing keeping me from using Songbird is that I cannot add 2 folders to be watched. I have 80,000+ songs on 2 separate hard drives. In Winamp, I can simply add each folder to Winamp via preferences>media Library>local media>watch folders. Not possible yet in Songbird. If/when this happens, Songbird will have another user - me.

Christopher Parker replied on December 11, 2008 13:58 to the question "Can Gmail offer an LDAP service so that when I use Apple Mail, I get contact suggestions?" in Google:

alexei, excellent idea! You should submit it as a new idea on Get Satisfaction.

Christopher Parker marked one of Steve's replies in Google as useful. Steve replied to the problem "Why can't I turn off conversation threading in gmail; it's fatal for my business!". Christopher Parker and 4 other people think it's one of the best replies.

Christopher Parker started following the question "is there a portable version of songbird?" in Songbird.