I posted a similar experience in the other genpuid thread here. genpuid
binaries for linux and macos seem to be having major issues.

If you have access to a windows machine, try using the windows version
of genpuid. It is working for me--with several quirks.

1. If I use it to scan a single file it usually fetches the analysis
off the server and the PUID to go along with it (assuming those tracks
have had their analysis previously done and stored on the server).

2. If I use it to scan a single album, consisting of, say 10-15 tracks,
it sometimes retrieves analysis for all tracks, sometimes just a few.
The rest it performs local analysis on.

3. If I use it to scan a huge folder full of albums (with the -r flag)
it may retrieve analysis on a couple of songs from the entire group,
and analyzes everything else locally.

Makes me wonder if it is experiencing DDOS attacks or they've throttled
it somehow to drop larger queries. Haven't figured it out yet.

But at a minimum the windows version of genpuid at least doesn't hang
like the linux and mac versions do. I find genpuid better to use than
the full Mixer app because I can specify multiple threads and make use
of all my processor's cores--which saves a tremendous amount of time
considering it's performing local analysis on just about everything.

Keep in mind if MusicIP/Gracenote ever takes the server completely down
then genpuid will cease to work (the very first thing it does when you
run it is check to see that the server is up and running. It's more
sophisticated than a simple ping, but not sure. Someone more
experienced than I should wireshark it and see what can be discovered
in the communications exchanged back and forth. Perhaps the server
could be spoofed somehow.

I am scanning all FLACs, by the way, so 99.9% of my files are larger
than 8MB.


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