Yeah, I tried to use music and audiobooks in Jellyfin and even with apps focused on that it was just… rough.

Pity, since I’d love to have been able to scope down how much shit I’m running, but alas, that’s not going to be the way to do it.

Good news, I guess?

https://github.com/kuba2k2/firefox-webserial

I’ve only used it to do some esp32 stuff with homeassistant, but it does work.

Wait you’re saying 30 year old drives are all dying or dead?

I, for one, am COMPLETELY shocked at this totally unexpected and impossible to plan for eventuality.

Who could possibly have known that hard drives might fail after decades?

It looks like it supports the getSimilarSongs API endpoint, which means if your client has support then navidrome can kinda do it.

As to what clients support that, uh, no freaking idea lol, but probably googleable from that point.

(I’m a grumpy old boomer and listen to whole albums or curated playlists, so never really looked into if you could do that or not.)

My first thought while reading was ‘does he also forget to breathe sometimes’?

And then I read the about-the-author bit at the bottom and am also confused if I was talking to a human or an AI, so he might have a point.

I know you’ve mentioned it, but Navidrome is probably the best choice, but it won’t be exactly what you want since you need to interact with a proprietary service.

But, that said, I’ve gone through basically every single music server I’ve found and ended up landing on none of them.

They’re all broken or missing features that another one has, and there’s no One True Music Streaming Server, just a bunch of mostly-kinda-sorta-almosts.

At this point, I just use a network mapped directory and/or a synced copy on the sd card of my phone and local players and don’t bother with anything more complex anymore.

The local players that can play media seem to have a much better, richer feature set than ANY streaming one does.

And you don’t even need to win to be president!

You just need to have it be close enough to have the supreme court call it in your favor, just ask Al Gore about that one.

(And for anyone confused: the odds that our bought-and-bribed-for supreme court would vote for anyone but Trump are pretty much lol, lmao.)

That’s also an option, yeah.

And, if you have the disk space, not an unreasonable one, but for me? DVD quality is pretty bad compared to anything newer and I’ve never noticed any real degredation transcoding a mpeg-2 stream to x265 which is like 25% the filesize, but that’s very ymmv.

Oof, and a minecraft server is also constantly writing the world state to disk which will 1000% kill a sd card in a hurry.

Well, shit. This may have led me down a useful path.

So not voltage exactly, but load line calibration adjustments looks like it very much MAY have resolved the issue.

Or at least, I’ve been whacking at it with all the workloads that were unstable and crashing and so far it hasn’t misbehaved at all.

Yeah. You can’t offer a half-secure and half-private platform and expect your average person to be able to figure out which half is which, which leads to crazy misconceptions, misunderstandings, and ultimately just a bunch of wrong and misleading information being passed around.

I’d argue, though, that Telegram probably did this on purpose, and profited GREATLY from being obtuse and misleading.

New headline: Republicans dismayed Trump literally did exactly what everyone knew Trump was going to do

The cool thing is we don’t have to go through this pissing contest!

Except we do, because we keep electing people to congress who wouldn’t be qualified to mop the floor at the local mcdonalds, and this is what happens when you send idiots to lead a nation.

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So maybe it’s just me, but if you have to make promises of spending a billion dollars so that the government will let you buy your next biggest competitor, perhaps you’re already too damn big and don’t need to be gobbling up your entire industry?

Like I said, just a thought.

At the moment, essentially.

The way Google got carrier buy-in for yet another messaging platform was to basically run it for them at no charge.

The carriers COULD run their own RCS infra, but if you’re getting the milk for free, why buy the cow?

It’s still a quality-at-a-given-bitrate deficient.

If you’re doing temporary encoding for like, streaming, or something where real-time encoding performance matters it’s still probably the way to go, but if you’re wanting to create high-quality archival stuff it’s still not quite as good as your other options.

Granted, x265 on the cpu is probably still the way to go (excepting maybe if you’re doing AV1 on an ARC gpu), but nvenc and qsv still outclass AMF.

Wish AMD would get a little more serious and bring that up to par, but they seem to be waffling on what they even want to do for consumer gpus so I’m not really holding my breath here.

I’ll second that: every single issue I’ve had with any of the Pis that are around here have all been bad sd cards.

They’re useful if you’re using an OS that doesn’t ever write to them, but as soon as you’re using a full Linux distro or running software that is writing logs or data, they’re going to fail and probably sooner than later and, of course, at the most annoying time possible because it’s a computer and that’s their thing.

Assuming you mean commercial DVDs, handbrake+libdvdcss.

It’s pretty much ‘insert disk, hit button, wait some amount of time, video file!’

Would recommend, however, that you do not use AMF (AMD) for encoding, and just stick to QSV/NVENC/x264/x256 because AMD’s quality is uh, less than stellar and you probably want the best possible quality for archiving your DVDs.

Eeh, I think you’re rose-colored-glasses-ing the Steam/Steamdeck thing.

That’s absolutely a near-monopoly using their near-monopoly money to make a platform, for a service, to sell you software.

Just because they’re more friendly appearing, doesn’t mean they’re any less interested in lock-in and revenue generation from the lock-in on the hardware that’s running their platform.

And just to veer this off before a WELL AKSHULLY shows up: you can run arbitrary software on the Steamdeck, yes. You can also do that on Apple hardware, or in Windows or whatever, and that doesn’t invalidate their general business model of trying to be the trifecta.