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Both READMEs. Installation instructions, which were missing, and a pass over
the prose.

The command line had no way in

The section opened by telling you what the tool expects and then showed you how
to use it, with nothing in between about how to get it. It now names three
routes:

  • brew install hiroaki222/tap/transcrate, new, and the shortest way in on
    macOS and Linux because it brings ffmpeg with it
  • the archive for your platform, with the three asset names written out — a
    Linux reader previously had to work the target triple out from the releases
    page
  • the app, which is a separate download and carries its own ffmpeg

Plus the step macOS users hit without being told: a downloaded binary is
quarantined and the first run is refused with no explanation. xattr -d once.

The archive is named with a glob rather than a version so the instruction does
not go stale at the next release.

Contributing named three checks; CI runs four

lint    cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy
test    cargo test
window  bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run build   ← not in the README

Somebody following the README could pass everything locally and fail CI on a
broken import in the window. The fourth is in both languages now, with a line
saying it is the one that gets forgotten. The command was run before it was
written down.

The prose

Each language went through the stop-slop review — Claude and Codex, one
language each, agreeing on the structural notes.

before after
English 38 / 50 42 / 50
Japanese 36 / 50 42 / 50

English. Twenty-one em dashes and nine instances of the same "X rather than
Y" contrast, which between them were what made every paragraph land the same
way. Adverbs carrying nothing (actually three times, always,
automatically). A few sentences narrated from a distance now address the
reader: on a Mac nobody has the mount point memorised became which saves you looking up a mount point.

Japanese. Two words that had been asked about directly: 書庫 for an archive,
and グロブ used with no explanation. Nine consecutive paragraphs had been landing
on 〜ためです; three do. Quotation marks used for emphasis went from eight to
none, and 以下はこの 3 つの話です — a sentence announcing the structure the
headings already show — is gone.

Held back in both: the pull quotes that do real explanatory work, and Codex's
suggestion to introduce a first-person voice the file has never had.

Checked

  • All 25 code blocks byte-identical in both files
  • Heading structure unchanged in both
  • No number, player name or limit altered
  • The two languages still state the same facts — verified after normalising
    line wrapping, which made a first comparison look wrong
  • cd gui && bun install --frozen-lockfile && bun run build runs clean, since
    the README now tells people to

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Updated installation and distribution guidance for the app and CLI, including supported platforms and source builds.
    • Clarified compatibility indicators, unsigned-build warnings, and bundled ffmpeg requirements.
    • Documented conversion behavior, file selection, collision prevention, bitrate preservation, profiles, and formats.
    • Added details on USB checks, unreadable folders, exit codes, metadata, tags, comments, and artwork handling.
    • Expanded CI execution instructions and macOS setup guidance.

The command line had no installation instructions at all. It has three ways
in now — Homebrew, which brings ffmpeg with it, an archive per platform named
by its target, and the app, which is a separate download — and the step macOS
users hit without them: a downloaded binary is quarantined and the first run
is refused without saying why.

The Contributing section named three checks as the ones CI runs. CI runs four,
and the fourth builds the window. Somebody following the README could pass
everything locally and fail on a broken import.

Both files then went through the stop-slop review, one language each, Claude
and Codex in agreement on the structural notes.

The English lost 21 em dashes and nine instances of one contrast construction,
which together were what made the rhythm even. Adverbs that were not carrying
anything went with them, and a few sentences that narrated from a distance now
address the reader.

The Japanese lost two words that had been asked about directly: 書庫 for an
archive, and グロブ used without explanation. Nine paragraphs in a row had been
landing on 〜ためです; three do now. Quotation marks used for emphasis went from
eight to none.

No number, player name or limit changed in either, and every code block is
byte-identical to what it was.
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The English and Japanese README files now document application and CLI distribution, conversion behavior, USB checks, metadata handling, CI procedures, source builds, and bundled ffmpeg details.

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README.md, README.ja.md
The documentation describes release artifacts, status indicators, XDJ-XZ/exFAT handling, unsigned-build warnings, supported codecs, and bundled LGPL ffmpeg builds.
CLI installation and conversion behavior
README.md, README.ja.md
The documentation covers CLI installation, input selection, output collision refusal, format handling, retagging, and source-build ffmpeg selection.
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README.md, README.ja.md
The documentation clarifies USB-check failures, unreadable folders, filesystem limits, metadata handling, device listing, language selection, and GUI CI checks.

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  • hiroaki222/transcrate#30: The README updates document behaviors and workflows introduced in this pull request, including collision handling, USB scan gaps, bitrate preservation, metadata, CLI usage, and release details.
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In `@README.ja.md`:
- Line 94: README.ja.md の Windows 向け ffmpeg 要件説明を、Homebrew
版では同時に導入されるため追加インストール不要、アーカイブ版では ffmpeg を別途導入する必要がある、という経路別の記述に更新してください。既存の
transcrate.exe の配置説明は変更しないでください。

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 117-120: Update the installation sections in README.md lines
117-120 and README.ja.md lines 83-86 to include a tar extraction command for
transcrate-*-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz alongside the existing Apple
Silicon command, preserving the subsequent binary installation command in both
files.
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"Either way, ffmpeg has to be there too" swept in the route that brings it:
brew install pulls ffmpeg as a dependency, which is most of the reason to
offer that route at all. Split by route, in both languages, and Windows now
gets somewhere to get a build rather than a brew command it cannot run.

The extraction command globbed on the Apple silicon target, so a Linux reader
had a table naming their archive and a command that would not take it. It
globs on the name alone now — whichever one was downloaded is the one in the
folder. Run against the Linux archive to be sure.
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