Re: F44/Xfce - Asunder CD ripper change

On 6/16/26 10:14 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 21:44 -0400, Robert Moskowitz via users wrote:
>> I use Asunder to rip various CDs to put the mp3 on my wife's rather old
>> LG LN220.
>>
>> Worked fine through F41.  I skipped forward to F44.
>>
>> The phone is just not recognizing the mp3 files.  I think it reads the
>> meta data to make its list of songs and something has changed.
>>
>> The controllable preferences are the same.  The file sizes are different.
> Are the files bigger?  Are they a lot bigger?

20 - 80 bytes larger.  Thus I suspect it is all metadata stuff.

> Some devices have limits to what they can handle.

These are 5min recordings.  She has hour long ones.

> It could also be that they don't recognise newer versions of encoding schemes, or even just the metadata (though
> that usually just means an un-named file playing in the play list).

mp3 for both.  But I suspect something new in metadata.  So I probably 
need some tool that can compare metadata between the two versions.  
Other than what shows up in VLC Info on the files.


> I used to use "grip" to do CD ripping, you could try another program to
> see if it makes any difference.  These days, the only thing I've been
> using to create MP3s was Audacity and MuseScore, of my own recordings
> and scores.

I think it is something in the underlying library ver.  Something "new" 
to stuff into the metadata.

>
> It may also be the libraries used for MP3 encoding.  I used to use ones
> from RPM Fusion repos.
>
>

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