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Comment #1 posted on 2025-02-14 19:23:26 by Dave Morriss

My 'fix_tags' script and Ken's difficulties with it.

There have always been a few problems with the Perl script I called 'fix_tags'. It needs a library called 'TagLib' (and a Perl module called 'Audio::TagLib') which can be difficult to install successfully.

A while ago I made a binary version of the script, which Ken and Honkey used, but I recently discovered there was a problem with that as well. The tool that packaged the script includes all the Perl modules the script needs, but not the external libraries. This wasn't obvious (to me anyway at the time) - the binary just looked for them on the system it was being run on - but over time it became a problem as OS stuff was upgraded.

I recently found a way to ensure that all external libraries were packaged with the modules and the script, and this solved the problems Ken and Honkey mentioned in this episode. They both have updated binary versions, but I have yet to update the GitHub version. I also plan to do an HPR show about this stuff soon...

Comment #2 posted on 2025-02-17 23:19:18 by freeplay

Transcode script dependencies

Just wanted to give some feedback and offer a code contribution if necessary.

In the beginning of the episode, Ken mentioned his transcode script was broken by updating some libraries on his Fedora machine. This is a great use case for a docker image. If we containerize the whole toolchain needed for transcoding, we can ensure the dependencies are never updated, regardless of what happens on the host machine.

If you’re not familiar with that process, I would love to help with that. Just let me know.

We could create an image (ex: hpr-transcode) and kick off the transcode using ‘docker run … hpr-transcode:latest’

Anyway, love the conversation on this one. Thanks.

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