Rubyripper finds metadata on one computer but not on another #643
Description
I have two computer running an identical version of Linux on them. I was baffled by the fact that one was finding metadata (authors, track titles, etc) for a much larger number of disks then the other. Like something similar to 10 times more!
Same identical rubyripper settings (I even diffed the config files!)
I initially thought it could have been random, or related to e.g. network connectivity etc, but it was too obvious to be such a thing. Eventually I grew tired and I kept trying the same disk back-and-forth between the two machines after connecting them to the same network. One consistently found the metadata, the other did not.
I thought I was missing libraries, so I diffed the installed packages (*) and so with lots of work I found the root cause and hence a workaround (below), but I think this should be addressed in rubyripper itself.
(*) For the curious, I ran apt list --installed | awk '{print $1}' | sort > /tmp/installed_packages.txt on both machines and then I used comm and diff to navigate the few hundreds packages of differences between them