Coconut Monkey Cornerclub

[Frindis]

holy cow, how many people can they put on that ship? It looks packed

No AI face either, Will Smith should take notice

 

[Zed Clampet]

No AI face either, Will Smith should take notice

To me, the weird thing about that controversy is that...

1) the original attack on him was that he couldn't be drawing that many people to his concerts, and that's why his team used AI.

2) But then they discovered that he really was drawing that many people and that the AI videos were created using real photos of the crowd.

3) So the complainers changed the complaint to simply repeat what had happened, that they had fed AI pictures of the crowd and created movies from that.

The fact that the complainers would so easily change their complaint based on new evidence suggests to me that they would have found something to complain about no matter what.

 

[Zed Clampet]

This is kind of funny to me. CoPilot is remembering our old conversations, but he's embellishing them in a way that makes me look like some sort of coding savant, which couldn't be farther from the truth. He thinks I've solved every problem I've asked him about, which includes most of the biggest problems AI currently has. I think I'm going to ask him to write a resume for me

Note: I want the resume for the humor, not to actually apply for jobs.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Last coconut post for awhile...Being vague because I don't want to say anything bad about someone if they aren't here to defend themselves, but I think this guy believes that I'm going to update his programs on Github. This is not true. If you are taking in vast sums of money each month in donations, I'm not fixing your crap for you. Granted, they are easy fixes. You just need to add a couple of lines to account for some updates to various things, but this is why people are donating to him, so I think he should be responsible for it.

 

[Frag Maniac]

@JCgames @dxchase On my bucket list

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAFnjTz-KrI

Do they not allow them to cosplay? I think it's the first time I've ever seen something that's literally larger in some ways than Comicon, but zero cosplay. No one dressed up as Klingons, or Vulcans, etc. Really strange, I mean if you didn't see the logos and the shirts here and there, you might not even know it has anything to do with Star Trek!

 

[JCgames]

holy cow, how many people can they put on that ship? It looks packed

i was thinking the same thing, yalk about nerdvanna. Its either heaven or someones hell,but i live it! lol

Id bet its a blast

 

[Charagma]

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Sorry, this is the only way I can get hold of you but really anyone can help if they can.

Bit of background first.

Being an FET (Further education Training) teacher, I pretty much fall under the same rules and laws the general teacher has. Several years ago students discovered MIDI files (Been there for ever but was somehow rediscovered) which resulted in many of the students gettig a Midi file, changing it a bit and then handing it in as their own work. Midi can unfortunately be directly used in most Scoring software so importing a MIDI file is very easy. Since it is music classes all of them has some form of Scoring software that can import MIDI's. Because of this the schools decided to have a MIDI folder so if a student hands in a song named ABCD, you can search for ABCD in the folder and compare it to what is available these come from various sources and also holds what students have handed in before. This however worked only for a while and students then started using GPT's etc. Resulting that we have a folder with 1000's of files in it consisting of MIDI, Guitar Pro, ".kar" and several other types of files. Each time we get the latest edition (I get mine from the school board) so that my folder can get updated. This system works great, and we are able to catch them when they pull stunts like this.

Today I got the new version of the files and once again was something like 180 000 various files. Many of them duplicate names but different when opened. Do you know of a MIDI Database program. Something similar to Calibre where you can scan a folder and it creates a database of the MIDI's as well as sort them like say Itunes does with music. I had a look at MIDIcat but not what I have in mind. Only other thing I can find is MIDI Vault but that is for inside a DAW. Just need to do the MIDI files, the rest I can then do manually.

Do you know of something like this? My Google searches came up with pretty much 0 and as you can imagine I am now sitting and manually sorted 180 000 files into A, B, C then need to add them to artist names etc.

Edit: Just checked it is 146557 files in 12071 folders and is 7.76GB in size

 

[Zed Clampet]

Sorry, this is the only way I can get hold of you but really anyone can help if they can.

Bit of background first.

Being an FET (Further education Training) teacher, I pretty much fall under the same rules and laws the general teacher has. Several years ago students discovered MIDI files (Been there for ever but was somehow rediscovered) which resulted in many of the students gettig a Midi file, changing it a bit and then handing it in as their own work. Midi can unfortunately be directly used in most Scoring software so importing a MIDI file is very easy. Since it is music classes all of them has some form of Scoring software that can import MIDI's. Because of this the schools decided to have a MIDI folder so if a student hands in a song named ABCD, you can search for ABCD in the folder and compare it to what is available these come from various sources and also holds what students have handed in before. This however worked only for a while and students then started using GPT's etc. Resulting that we have a folder with 1000's of files in it consisting of MIDI, Guitar Pro, ".kar" and several other types of files. Each time we get the latest edition (I get mine from the school board) so that my folder can get updated. This system works great, and we are able to catch them when they pull stunts like this.

Today I got the new version of the files and once again was something like 180 000 various files. Many of them duplicate names but different when opened. Do you know of a MIDI Database program. Something similar to Calibre where you can scan a folder and it creates a database of the MIDI's as well as sort them like say Itunes does with music. I had a look at MIDIcat but not what I have in mind. Only other thing I can find is MIDI Vault but that is for inside a DAW. Just need to do the MIDI files, the rest I can then do manually.

Do you know of something like this? My Google searches came up with pretty much 0 and as you can imagine I am now sitting and manually sorted 180 000 files into A, B, C then need to add them to artist names etc.

Edit: Just checked it is 146557 files in 12071 folders and is 7.76GB in size

Have you looked at Midiexplorer?

 

[Charagma]

Have you looked at Midiexplorer?

Downloaded, struggled a bit, but found the binary eventually. It is scanning the "Database" now. If I can just get the Database part working on it then 90% of my problems is fixed. LMAO.

Thank you will let you know once it scanned the files and placed them in a list for me. The Lahki (or something like that) database added an extra 190k midi file to my already huge collection but saw that they are much newer than what I have. Every bit extra helps so not complaining. Even if it does not work it added extra midi's which in itself is already a huge advantage.

Edit: It is nearly final exams (Yearend exams over here) time for the students, so we are starting with preventative measure ahead of time.

 

[Charagma]

LMAO, lack of knowledge struck again but figured it out. Eventually realised that I needed the original database to get everything to start up and it should be running in admin mode. Eventually got it right to start rebuilding the database. I am assuming due to the number of files it is not a 5-minute process.

I laugh at this because it happens often where the writer of something forgets that not everyone is of similar mindset. I for example will tell you "That to work in major scale you just need to count. 1 being your keynote (E.g C), skip 3, with 4 being your 2nd note and then skip another 2 with 8 being your top not (1,5,8). This will give you a perfect Major Triad (In this case C Major)." To me that makes complete sense but to someone else it is a different language. So, I do not blame the creator for the instructions because we all pretty much do it without realising it.

Will let it rebuild the Database for the night and have a look at it in the morning. The bit I did see of it, it is pretty much what I had in mind and more. Just hoping it moves files around as it runs through the files. If it does that the battle has been won.

Doubt I will ever get to your country (Unless it is work related, which is a tall order on its own) so will have a whiskey on your behalf to say thank you.

 

[Charagma]

LMAO, lack of knowledge struck again but figured it out. Eventually realised that I needed the original database to get everything to start up and it should be running in admin mode. Eventually got it right to start rebuilding the database. I am assuming due to the number of files it is not a 5-minute process.

I laugh at this because it happens often where the writer of something forgets that not everyone is of similar mindset. I for example will tell you "That to work in major scale you just need to count. 1 being your keynote (E.g C), skip 3, with 4 being your 2nd note and then skip another 2 with 8 being your top not (1,5,8). This will give you a perfect Major Triad (In this case C Major)." To me that makes complete sense but to someone else it is a different language. So, I do not blame the creator for the instructions because we all pretty much do it without realising it.

Will let it rebuild the Database for the night and have a look at it in the morning. The bit I did see of it, it is pretty much what I had in mind and more. Just hoping it moves files around as it runs through the files. If it does that the battle has been won.

Doubt I will ever get to your country (Unless it is work related, which is a tall order on its own) so will have a whiskey on your behalf to say thank you.

Was in a meeting this morning so only got round to checking it now. It seems to be scanning only 9k midi files, sort them and then gets stuck. anything I click then afterwards gives me a "stop" error. Force closing it and then re-opening it (since I cannot select or do anything after the "stop" error) bring me back to the unsorted list. Great little program, but I cannot get it to work properly. Possibly a user error.

I am going to try and find something that can scan and "rewrite" the meta data of the files. If I can get them all correctly named, then maybe it will be easier to sort on my end.

I am going to try MRA and see if it works on MIDI's and then work my way up on the database creation from there. Thinking it might eb a good idea to export the folder to a CSV file and then work my way up from there.

 

[Charagma]

Searched and found a thing called PSD style database written by Peter Wierzba. Inside this he has a Midi database/cataloguer. First few runs on a much smaller folder seems to be showing what I was looking for. I can type in E.g. a title and in the list it will show me everything related to that specific title. So, no need to even open the file. It has other functions as well like producer etc but doubt I will ever have the need of those. Saw that I am able to edit the Metadata on files as well as copy or move them to different folders and search for duplicates. Will keep playing with it but for now it is nusy scanning the main folder and sub folders to create he first master database. Lets hold thumbs

 

[Frindis]

Do they not allow them to cosplay? I think it's the first time I've ever seen something that's literally larger in some ways than Comicon, but zero cosplay. No one dressed up as Klingons, or Vulcans, etc. Really strange, I mean if you didn't see the logos and the shirts here and there, you might not even know it has anything to do with Star Trek!

I believe they do (could be at designated areas) because I have watched a couple of longer videos in the past taken by the attendees, and they had different outfits on looking like Data or Q. They also have different themed nights where you can dress up.

 

[Pifanjr]

I discovered today that my laptop has a dedicated CoPilot key that replaces the right Ctrl key and as far as I can find, there's no way to turn it back into a fully functional Ctrl key again. I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it. Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

 

[Zloth]

Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

I use the left a ton, but I don't think I ever use the right. (Or the right alt, for that matter.) What are you using it for?

 

[Frag Maniac]

I don't use CoPilot and even if I did, I don't see why it would be so important that I'd need a dedicated key on my keyboard to open it. Especially not when it replaces a key I use rather frequently.

Hopefully it won't accidentally fly you to a destination you don't want to go to. I hate Copilot and have that app disabled. My Bloody B840 keyboard has software that allows me to disable any key, but I haven't had to do such a thing with Copliot. At least it's On/Off switch understands that Off means Off.