Stuff Mixtape #418

I’ve been doing mixtapes since the late 80s — it’s nice to be able to go back and listen to what you really liked back then. I mostly listen to them while in the car or eating breakfast…

But I thought it might be nice to see if I could cobble something fun with ffmpeg and sleeves and stuff, and…

Yeah, it took me three hours to actually get it to work.

Man, ffmpeg doesn’t like handholding newb users, does it?

Anyway! Now that I’ve got it kinda working, I guess I may be posting these once in a while (i.e., whenever I do a new mixtape).

*gasp*

I do indeed rip all blurays before watching, so this is correct, but I’ve never seen one of these before — it’s a separate file on the bluray containing just this text for a few minutes. Presumably it’s not linked from the bluray menu, so you’d not be able to see this file if you’re using a furniture bluray player.

Hidden files! Fun!

But I wonder what they thought they’d achieve with this? Presumably dastardly bootleggers would either just copy the entire bluray, including the menu. If not, they’d just leave this file off the new bluray? And do bluray bootleggers even exist any more?