Month: April 2020

Classical CD Tagger Bug Fix

Posted on by hjr

Never mess with old code and expect the results to be perfect!

The recent spate of software updating I posted about last time resulted in an "improvement" in the CCDT code that handles making file names "NTFS-safe". The improvement turned out to alter file names after they had been selected for tagging, but before they were actually tagged, meaning that when it came time to modify the tags associated with an audio file, the modifications were written to a file that no longer existed. Result: failed modifications! 🙁 [...] 

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Lockdown Tasks

Posted on by hjr

As we are all now experiencing 'lockdown woes', I decided I had time enough on my hands for it to be worthwhile for me to look again at my various bits of music management software. The Classical CD Ripper and Tagger scripts accordingly got a work-over: little tweaks to make each program work slightly more in ways that suit me than not! I use the Tagger program on a daily basis, so it's important to me that it works efficiently, which I think it now does 🙂

I then tackled the Flac Checker script, which hadn't been modified since October 2019. It has been in daily use since then, but the output was messy and that made it harder to spot corruption happening to my collection of digital music files than it should have been. I have accordingly re-worked the program so extensively that it's now up to version 2.0. I am confident that I've improved the logging sufficiently that any corruption detected will be extremely obvious and easy to locate. [...] 

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