I just obtained the disc Endtroducing... (2005), which is the digital deluxe version of Endtroducing..... (1996). Now I have a conundrum about tagging it. I could tag disc 1 as Endtroducing..... (1996) and the second as Endtroducing... (2005), but they'd be shown as separate albums. I could use Endtroducing... (2005) for both, it's correct but feels wrong as the tracks on disc 1 are from 1996. I could have Endtroducing... for both but different years which is a mess.

#music #MusicBrainz

$ mkdir megadeth-peace
$ cd !$
$ cdparanoia -B && ( eject & parallel flac --best ::: *.wav && rm *.wav ) ; cd ..
# récupération des infos dans #MusicBrainz Picard (à partir du TOC) pendant que ça rippe

Ouais on perd pas de temps par ici

I decided to face head on the biggest problem when ripping my audio CDs to FLAC. The two "copy protected" CDs that I have.

I remember when I first ripped these. I needed to use some alternative multi-session-aware Linux CD ripper which specifically ignored the completely bogus 2nd session on the CD with garbage data and read the first session TOC. (The trick is that bog-ordinary redbook CD players don't care about the 2nd session, but computer CD-ROM drives and apps do.) I had forgotten the name of the program and I was like "oh shit, I'm forgetting some old nerd lore here."

...I hit "cdparanoia -B" and both of the CDs extracted just fine with no complaints.

#MusicBrainz Picard identified both of the discs just fine.

I *guess* I would have had problems if I had tried to extract this with K3B as I usually do, because it identified the disc and then the drive started going haywire. Don't always trust GUI programs!

#cd #audiocd #music #drm

Today I started the biggish job of ripping all of my #music CDs to #FLAC format.

My previous ripping style: I ripped the music to Ogg Vorbis or something as I went. No real concern for metadata accuracy and stuff.

Anyway, now, the idea is to rip the CDs to FLAC (which can then be converted to whatever I need with no compounding quality loss), making sure all files get the actual real #MusicBrainz release data (and not just "close enough" matches). I guess I should also archive the Enhanced CD content.

So far it's going great! 28 CDs down, and only 2 have had MusicBrainz problems (one missing album cover art, one seemingly entirely missing release of an album that does exist in the database). ...I get the vague feeling that the missing album art was missing last time when I was ripping this stuff. Should fix that.

Don't mind the music selection in the screenie, this was just random stuff from the shelf.

#cd #audiocd #archival

Mein altes Thinkpad T500 kann CDs digitalisieren, bei denen deutlich neuere (externe) CD-Laufwerke gestolpert sind.

Ich denke, ich kann längst verloren geglaubte CDs ins digitale Zeitalter retten und freue mich gerade ein bisschen.

Nutzen tue ich dafür Linux Mint mit asunder und bearbeite das dann mit mp3tag und musicbrainz picard ggf. nochmal nach.
#musik #navidrome #thinkpad #linux #mp3tag #musicbrainz