Present Perfect

It was long overdue, but I finally got around to releasing a new version of morituri, my cd ripper.

Originally I planned to do a quick release so I could be the first cd ripper that supported MusicBrainz NGS, which I quickly implemented when they released that, and then figured out how to properly do multi-cd rips (which worked fine before MusicBrainz NGS but stopped working in the early days of MusicBrainz NGS).

Anyway, I finally made some time this week to fix a few dangling issues and clean up for a release.

See the trac page for more info and download links. You can also download it from my package repository for Fedora 16 if that's your distro.

For the curious, here's some more info:


Coverage in 0.1.3: 60 % (1716 / 2825), 85 python tests

- 77: Unable to find solution to UTF-8 problem
- 93: Unable to choose if there are more than one matching CD
- 67: unable to rip multi-cd-sets correctly
- 73: rip image breaks with "query failed"
- 78: Could not create encoded file
- 84: Error when checksumming extremely short tracks
- 91: --release-id does not work for Pink Floyd - The Wall (Experience Edition) (Disc 1)
- 94: mp3vbr uses quality=0 instead of vbr-quality=0
- 95: Discs with multiple media not correctly identified.
- 99: rip offset find fails with "UnboundLocalError: local variable 'archecksum' referenced before assignment"
- 102: Unable to run without -d option
- 98: Year of release in templates


It was long overdue, but I finally got around to releasing a new version of morituri, my cd ripper. Originally I planned to do a quick release so I could...

Following up on last night's post, I updated my package repositories with all packages I currently work on before sending them off to Fedora.

The repository is updated with chromaprint, gstreamer-chromaprint, longomatch, and some of my own projects: moap, mach, morituri, and savon.

Following up on last night's post, I updated my package repositories with all packages I currently work on before sending them off to Fedora. The repository is updated with chromaprint,...

After ripping over a 1000 CD's perfectly, and having problems on a few (bad discs, weird audio, a few small niggles to fix), I ran into a fun failure.

Apparently, the file name in u'morituri/Sufjan Stevens - Illinois/02. Sufjan Stevens - The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself in the Morning, or, We Apologize for the Inconvenience but You\'re Going to Have to Leave Now, or, "I Have Fought the Big Knives and Will Continue to Fight Them Until They Are Off Our Lands!".flac' is too long for my NAS.

Thank you Mister Sufjan. In your honour, I added a function to morituri to shrink the filename to a power of two minus one, below either the given length or 128 characters, whichever is less. For now the algorithm splits on spaces and changed the file name to morituri/Sufjan Stevens - Illinois/02. Sufjan Stevens - The Black Hawk War, or, How to Demolish an Entire Civilization and Still Feel Good About Yourself.flac

That is good enough for me... I was worried I had to teach this one tiny function about keeping quoted pieces together, or how comma's work, or how 'or, ' works, and so on, just to satisfy my crazy sense of aesthetics.

After ripping over a 1000 CD's perfectly, and having problems on a few (bad discs, weird audio, a few small niggles to fix), I ran into a fun failure. Apparently,...

I finally got around to completing my release, after a week of absence from my apartment.

This is intended as a release for daring and curious people who've had enough
of the fact that Windows has a more accurate CD ripper than Linux.

Here are the features:

- UTF-8/unicode handling fixes
- improved error handling
- ignore tags for alac and wav
- work around GStreamer flacparse bugs
- change how paths get referenced in .cue files
- properly interpret AccurateRip results; no more assertions on unexpected
ordering of results
- add debug command


Get it at morituri or from package repositories if you're on Fedora 14/15

I finally got around to completing my release, after a week of absence from my apartment. This is intended as a release for daring and curious people who've had enough...

After a weekend of extensive bug fixing, and some followup hacking around recent GStreamer regressions that I saw on Fedora 15, everything seems to be hunky dory again, and my F15 rips are just as good and accurate as my F14 rips. Christophe Fergeau as if by magic dropped by IRC on Freenode in #morituri and spent some time figuring out what the problem and the cause was, leaving me with enough energy to actually hack around it.

morituri is a cd ripper that aims for accuracy over speed, implementing functionality not commonly available in Linux rippers, like AccurateRip verification and read offset detection/use.

Get the 0.1.1.2 prerelease, or install the package from my package repositories repositories, and let me know how it goes!

After a weekend of extensive bug fixing, and some followup hacking around recent GStreamer regressions that I saw on Fedora 15, everything seems to be hunky dory again, and my...