What Getting a Minidisc Player Working in 2026 Says About Disposable Infrastructure
NB: At some point I started using ChatGPT to help me navigate the technical issues around getting metadata for a ripped CD on Windows 98, so the entire chat might be a useful archive of that. (assuming open.ai is still around in 20 years). What’s more, I had it draft an original version of this post which I entirely re-wrote, but as I continue to play with the machine for writing, I think it is […]
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#GNUDB seems to be a more complete archive of music CDs. I'm ripping a whole book of old #music CDs to FLAC and I've been using Asunder because it uses the gnudb music library. Just out of curiosity I tried a few of them in Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer, both of which seem to use #MusicBrainz. Not only did they not fill in the "genre" of any of the discs, but there have been a couple so far that were listed in gnudb but not MusicBrainz. I may kick gnudb a donation, 🙂
TIL that freedb hasn't existed since 2020. But gnudb does!
https://gnudb.org/
And it has the first disc! Marked up properly, unlike Gracenote, who lost all of the accented characters ...
https://gnudb.org/cd/df0e7b83
I'm still mad about the CDDB/Gracenote thing which happened almost 24 years ago ...
#gnudb #cddb Anyone else had trouble with gnudb today?
I'll look into my code when I get home, but I seem to be getting a 500 http response (something like invalid syntax), followed by a 210 with empty results. It's happened with 2 different CDs, both pretty mainstream stuff and old enough to have entries. Weird.
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