Karel P Kerezman @greyduck@x0r.be

I am an absolute nerd.

Yes, I broke down and bought another Nendoroid.

https://pixelfed.social/p/GreyDuck/183725452337221632

... somehow I didn't scan any of the CDs out of the Genesis "year - year" boxed sets into Discogs.

*headdesk*

No big, just my tip top number one all time favorite band, and I forgot the core bits of their discography.

Cue anime character of choice sneering "baaaaaaka" at me.

And the end result of all today's faffing about?

Nearly 50 CDs were ripped with a pre-release version of the Ogg Vorbis codec. Well, ouch.

Another 110+ CDs were ripped with the "one point oh" release, and they're misbehaving in Ampache & other programs as well.

I have my work cut out for me. Pray for my optical disk drive...

So, yeah: Turns out what I needed was the IPS=$'\r' setting in my 'while read' loop to prevent it from griping about each of my several hundred Ogg files that needed reading in.

I finally have my data. All of it, each file getting a line of results. I have spent literally all day on this.

End result? Nearly 50 CDs were ripped with PRE-RELEASE versions of the Ogg Vorbis codec. Sting's "Bring On The Night" set was done with the 'beta 1' version. Oops.

Bash won the fight over how to get the list of files I needed, albeit with (mysterious) duplicates I had to clean up.

It has utterly failed to do a "while read" loop properly to run the 'ogginfo' utility, so now I'm back to PowerShell to see if I can run 'ogginfo.exe' and filter the output like I want to.

FFS, it shouldn't have been this complicated.

I'm using Windows Terminal to side-by-side a PowerShell and a Bash session so I can figure out which of the two will get me what I need the best. (So far Bash is winning.)

Now I just need to run an 'ogginfo' pass against the one representative Ogg file selected by the Bash command to pull out the "Vendor" line (thank you 'grep') so I can put all this into a spreadsheet and figure out how many CDs I need to re-rip. (Guessing A LOT OF THEM.)

I wish I could find, programmatically, which of the Ogg Vorbis files in my library were encoded with older versions of the codec so I could know which CDs to re-rip.

There's nothing quite like the feeling when you submit a feature request (well, bug report really) and within a couple weeks a lead dev has fixed the issue.

(The Develop branch of Ampache reads Vorbis ratings tags properly now. It read all the OTHER tags okay, just not saved ratings. I can do smart-playlist things involving ratings now.)

It's always nice when your management system vendor schedules out an "oh by the way there may have been widespread hacking of our product" email at 5:15pm Eastern... after they've gone home for the day.

Weep for their after-hours support techs, one of whom I'll be wringing some answers out of once I get through the lengthy queue.

I posted a little start-of-summer check-in over at the not-a-blog: https://greyduck.net/journal/3788

Summer's here
And the time is right
For sleeping above the sheets

Downside: My home-office chair, which was NOT designed for the kind of hours I've been putting in during pandemic-work-from-home mode, finally got to the point where I needed it replaced.

Upside: Ops!Boss at work brought me the "brand new" office chair that we bought back in February and I'd sat in maybe a dozen times before work-from-home kicked in.

Meltyside: This new chair does NOT line up with my home desk very well, but I'll deal with it because it's SO COMFY, AW YEAH.

... wait, this is really a thing? Please tell me it's a joke.

I mean there's no way on this mudball planet that jackasses aren't going to weaponize this. What a SPECTACULARLY bad idea.

Best Buy's order tracker: "Hey, your doodad is gonna show up tomorrow, cool!"

UPS's tracking # page: "Uh, we haven't updated the status on the shipped doodad since last week and as of that point we had no idea where your thing is."

So. That's a thing happening in my life.

My Discogs submission received one critique. I panicked a bit at first when I saw the message, but they were right: I got the label wrong. Easy fix. Whew.

Proof that I did the work: https://www.discogs.com/release/15460747

I have, in fact, spent an hour or so getting the 3-CD set into Discogs as my very first submission.

Maybe someone else out there spent the ridiculous amount of money for that set and will be happy for my efforts? I hope so.

Well crap: The Bodacious Space Pirates soundtrack CD set is NOT in Discogs. At all.

Not sure what I want to do about that.

Today's the day, I just know it.

Today's the day I actually finish something I started. (The Discogs barcode scanning project... which began over a year ago. Ahem.)