are you sure the WD red plus was actually 5400rpm and not what they call “5400rpm class”? WD was caught straight up lying on the spec sheets for 5400 drives, they’re actually 7200. e.g https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/western-digital-is-trying-to-redefine-the-word-rpm/
I don’t get it, this just looks like you’re trying to shoehorn discussion board type software into a comparison tool for microblogging
that gets tedious, fast. Much easier to use beets that does none of that silly stuff.
from the sounds of it it’s not changing the actual file, just changing the duration tag which is then being read by whichever wonky app OP is using. Why does picard change the duration tag rather than just rely on the file? who knows.
it doesn’t just use the same source as picard? beets can use discogs, itunes, deezer, spotify and probably a bunch more.
beets with a whole bunch of custom scripts. I tried using picard but found it to be completely useless, it rarely finds a match and when it does it decides it belongs to multiple album editions rather than just 1.
Did you read the article? I’m guessing not, because you’d have read this part
or followed the link to the original investigation and seen this part: