Zdenko

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Mary Beth and I went back out to Paradiso for some more MetOp, this time for Richard Strauss's Arabella. It's later than Salome and after he had gotten to where he was going so out there in dissonance and all, but it's still good and has quite a lot of the Strauss feeling still. Even the parts with traditional kind of waltz stuff has this dense layered and near-collage kind of effect. So yeah, that was fun and a nice four hour extravaganza. At night I worked some on my music-loading script. Something seems to have happened with the python discogs library I'm using (it's has a built-in backoff for requests when you hit the limit...I use it to download album art). It had been working forever but I ran it recently and I would get about ten images downloaded and it would hit a limit and then just start erroring out for the rest. This is only speculation, but while looking up the issue I was seeing things about their requests going through Cloudflare...so since there was a huge Cloudflare outage a few days ago, could it have been something changed with the way they're handling those errors or with the response structure, etc and that's broken the way the library processes them? I haven't seen anyone else reporting this issue at least not yet. But I just made my own, very non-optimal, backup solution to handle it when the library doesn't backoff correctly. Okay, boring stuff!