Misc on wporter.org

Fixing duplicate artist names in local FLAC files played by Spotify

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:35:00 +0000

Spotify has a bug where it’ll duplicate artist names if they’re listed more than once in the metadata of a FLAC file (e.g., in the Artist and Album Artist fields). See below:

This has been a problem since at least 2022 - see this Spotify Community post by yule from 2022-11-09 - so I doubt it’s going to be fixed. This bug doesn’t occur with MP3s; only FLAC files.

Configuring a Server 2008 R2 domain

Sun, 25 May 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Why are you doing this?

Fun!

Goal

DNS, DHCP and AD DS installed and working for a FL 2008 AD domain that we can then join physical Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 machines to.

I’ll be installing a couple of VMs on my desktop/main Windows server running 24H2 (Windows 11 Enterprise LTSC and Windows Server 2025). These have an i9-12900KS and a pair of E5-2698 v3 CPUs, respectively, which are both x86-64-v3 (this is a newer 12900 without AVX512). Then, we’ll think about standing up a Hyper-V Server 2008R2 machine.. or a cluster of them.. in another post.

Setting up a Windows 7 box in mid 2025

Fri, 23 May 2025 16:30:00 +0000

Why on earth would you want to do that?

Windows 7 is great and I would love it if the whole world knew what kind of Content I watch. More seriously, I wanted to briefly play an old Command & Conquer game and didn’t feel like tinkering with my Windows 11 box. Plus, nostalgia.

Hardware

I will be using relatively appropriate hardware.

I briefly tried a NUC7, but it doesn’t really have any USB 2 ports, so getting through setup is annoying.

Installing Ninja Remote (NinjaRMM remote session utility) on Linux with Wine

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 18:30:00 +0000

~~NinjaRMM sucks. Here’s how to run its terrible little connection tool on a proper OS.~~

Update: as of August 2026, NinjaOne have released a native Linux “Ninja Remote” connection utility. This is no longer needed! Yay!

First, install a user-agent spoofer in your preferred browser - Ninja’s site won’t even show the connection button without this nowadays. Set it to Windows something.

Here are links to a user agent spoofer-manager thing:

Looking at filesystem types on disks from Linux

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:13:59 +0000

Not sure why I went through so many ways to do this. But I did. Was slightly curious about how I might go about this.. guess I’m happy now.

Unmounted

parted

parted /device print will give you a nice list of partitions, name, and filesystem.

[liam@800g4m0 ~]$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WDS100T2B0A (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  274MB   273MB   fat32        EFI system partition          boot, esp
 2      274MB   290MB   16.8MB               Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 3      290MB   1000GB  999GB   ntfs         Basic data partition          msftdata
 4      1000GB  1000GB  631MB   ntfs                                       hidden, diag

You can also parted /device print all to get parted to look at every disk.

Snippet: branch and merge a detached head with main

Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:12:59 +0000

I keep doing this. But I keep doing it infrequently enough that I need to look up the solution every darn time. So I’m putting it here.

I think VSCode’s source control integration does this somehow when I make changes in a submodule and main project, then commit the main project changes first, though I have no idea why this is the case.

The following is probably the easiest way to fix up a detached head and get back to work: