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Post by pelican »

Skywalka wrote:I guess you know that on IRC it takes you about 20 hits to enter a whole series by one group to your mylist?

!add blaseries by blagroup
That'd be a really nice feature, though probably not with that syntax, if it existed anywhere but in your imagination. If I'm wrong and Chii really can do this, then please tell us how it's actually done.

As for keeping the data in the db accurate, I'd like to add whole series that I've downloaded, watched and deleted in the past in one operation. Whether any of the files were corrupt does not matter one whit, as that copy is already gone.

...well, really, I would've liked to have had this feature when I joined, as I can no longer recall any such series, but it would be a great boon for new users.
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Post by Skywalka »

hmm... must have been my imagination.

Sorry :-)

If you could only add files with the "deleted" status to your MyList massively I'd be fine with it, because nobody really cares about the red part of the filestats that much anyway.

Damn leechers ;-)
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Post by lamer_de »

f you've still got the files on HDD then hash them (either with AOM, emule or some external-tool) to get their ed2k-links and then ed2k-dump them all at once and voilla you're done. additionally you'll notice, if a file is corrupted (witch is not that unlikely when using IRC and BT).
As I wrote, I don't want to wait 20 mins till 76 files are hashed (both random numbrs). Seeing that they're spread over 10 differnet directories doesn't makes the thing easier. But I already wrote that. Corruption of files you get over BT is highly unlikely, unless somebody created a corrupted torrrent. And while it happens that files get corrupted via irc transfer, it is rather rare for me or not noticeable to me because the file still plays fine. I have no problem with that myself, because I usually don't add files tothe DB. If I do, I obviously check the crc before.
Or do you really care that you watched a specific series from a specific group - if you can't be sure that it's really the group's file because you did not hash it and checked whether it was the correct one.
One must be pretty blind not to see all the group tags and logos fansub groups put in their subs. Seeing that even most R1 groups do this, there is little to worry about here either. While there are people who give nothing about groups (narutards come to mind), I would think that the majority of regular users knows exactly what group they have and tend to collect subs from a specific group as well.
And still, I guess you know that on IRC it takes you about 20 hits to enter a whole series by one group to your mylist?
Where's the difference between 20 keystrokes and 20 mouseclicks (that are needed if I do it via the web)?

Ah well, if you say the risk is too great somebody accidentially adds files he never saw to his/her mylist, then so be it. I'm not that of a user of anidb anyway, and the one or two series I add to my mylist per month I can add per hand. It just would've been easier.

CU,
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Post by kidan »

lamer_de wrote:As I wrote, I don't want to wait 20 mins till 76 files are hashed (both random numbrs). Seeing that they're spread over 10 differnet directories doesn't makes the thing easier. But I already wrote that. Corruption of files you get over BT is highly unlikely, unless somebody created a corrupted torrrent. And while it happens that files get corrupted via irc transfer, it is rather rare for me or not noticeable to me because the file still plays fine. I have no problem with that myself, because I usually don't add files tothe DB. If I do, I obviously check the crc before.
I guess in the time you spent on writing and arguing here, you'd have hashed the files in background by now. It's not like hashing files will render your PC unusable in meantime (ok, you might not be able to play DM3). I think you did not get the point, why we (=the DB) would like to know which exact file without any corruption you've got on your HDD or CD/DVD-R(W). We would like to have this info for accurate statistics (and hopefully autoRSRs someday, ne exp ;)).
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Post by DonGato »

The day automated autoRSRs is implemented the day AniDB will set a death sentence itself (as most likely will be charged of helping copyright infringement). So, no I hope to never see such thing. A database is all we need, nothing more... nothing less. I think exp is aware of this. ;)
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Post by kidan »

Well, everything anidb does is just the exchange of meta-data and the information that user xyz would like to have a file with hash blablablubb is metadata as well. I don't think anybody can have the copyright on this meta-data. :twisted:
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