Author Archives: Lukáš Lalinský

Goodbye Launchpad

All Acoustid components are now migrated to GitHub: Chromaprint Acoustid Fingerprinter Acoustid Server Acoustid Index Chromaprint plug-in for GStreamer Even though I still prefer the idea of Bazaar, the tools built around Git and especially GitHub make it worth switching … Continue reading

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Making Fail2ban with IPFW firewall on FreeBSD work

The internet is a nasty place, everybody is trying to hack into your servers if they are publicly accessible. Even though I always disable password authentication, so there is very little chance somebody could “guess” my private RSA key, I … Continue reading

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Windows binaries for TagLib …

… or why there are none. TagLib is a C++ library and as such, it’s very dependant on the compiler. GCC (MinGW) and MSVC generate completely different symbol names, so you can’t even think about using libraries built the other … Continue reading

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Minimal audio-only FFmpeg build with MinGW32

Another post intended mainly for future me, I tend to lose and re-invent this kind of stuff if it’s not public… :) For projects like Picard or Chromaprint, when I’m doing a Windows build, I need a minimal version of … Continue reading

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Easier MusicBrainz NGS database setup

Some time ago I wrote a couple of tools that help me set up and update a mirror of the MusicBrainz database on the Acoustid server. It turned out to be work really well. Recently I’ve seen a few people … Continue reading

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