JimmyChezPants 🇨🇦

@W98BSoD I don’t know what the link says, and won’t be bothering to read it, cause I didn’t need to do that with Jellyfin. 🤣

@BarbecueCowboy @lIlIlIlIlIlIl VMs are not great to use on non-server hardware anyways - there are a few things on my network which would be more convenient as a VM, but I use docker.

@HybridSarcasm @zr0 it’s been years since I touched Plex and this might have changed, but when I used it, it stopped working if the Internet went out. This is a terrible thing for a program that shows you media which is not on the Internet to do.

That’s what made me switch to jelly and deal with the shortcomings, which are still numerous.

@BruisedMoose @InternetCitizen2 The only reason I’m being fairly passive (this is passive for me) in my criticism and not trumpeting a horn from the mountaintops of the miracle Symfonium is

-they are only on one shitty OS that I currently carry around with me but at some point will stop in favour of at least a de-Googled phone, but more like some kinda janky SBC rig I build myself. I expect to lose it at some point.

-they are not Free Software.

But the actual usage experience of Symfonium is incredible, and does not seem to give a shit if you don’t give a shit about metadata, it just handles that geeky bullshit for you.

The instant mixes are so good that I’m considering signing up for a streaming service again, just so I can get new music from people I have not already collected. The fact it integrates so damn many sources too.

Within its tiny corner of the world (the app store of a corporate reaver) it’s quite a thrill. Nobody’s Perfect.

IMO though, anything that purports to do anything for you as regards your music collection, should meet the minimum standard of working as well as Winamp. Cause Winamp was good enough for the whole world for at decade or more.

@InternetCitizen2 Longtime Jellyfin user, brief and erstwhile Navidrome user.

If you are complete on top of your collection’s tags, and enjoy managing your tags, and have some solution besides Navidrome to do that management with, you might enjoy Navidrome.

Navidrome is intensely dependent on your tags being correct, and it offers no way to edit tags itself, that’s entirely your problem. I come from the age of Winamp, which allowed you to edit tags with quite a bit of flexibility, it took me a while to even realize that someone had the audacity to release a music server that didn’t manage what it relied on.

Oh, and forget about using a folder-based view on Navidrome, it is not a planned feature. The main dev is fixated on tags, but not enough to implement editing them. It’s an absurd hill to murder your app on.

Where I landed: Jellyfin serves your music collection just fine, and offers a folder view even, and I paid 8 bucks CDN for an Android app called Symfonium, which offers every feature you could want, using your Jellyfin server as the media store.

It also connects to Navidrome and many other sources, but Navidrome became completely unnecessary once I got Symfonium.

@ampersandrew @IsoKiero Important thing to understand about VLANs is that they exist at Layer 2 (DataLink) of the 7-layer OSI model - when you’re talking about VLANs, the addresses that you’re working with are the MAC addresses of your network interfaces. The VLAN tags determine where packets go without ever knowing about or looking at your TCP/IP addresses. The VLAN conversation happens among your routers and switches alone.

This differs from, say, a [Layer 3, VLAN unaware] Router or a Layer 3 Switch, both of which are capable of making (or only make) routing decisions based on TCP/IP addresses.

So, when you’re working with VLANs properly, absolutely nothing that happens will affect other VLANS, generally speaking, unless the two VLANS can reach a common router, and affect each other that way.

edit: just thinking about how squishky the barrier is between these two layers - a TCP/IP router or firewall does not need to be VLAN aware, but they generally are, for instance to act as Internet Gateway for both networks (thus creating that opportunity for exchange between the two networks via Layer 3).

And likewise, even though Switches are generally supposed to just be Layer 2 devices that concern themselves primarily with VLANs/MACs, any serious network Switch is going to be Layer 3 aware for remote admin at the very least, and frequently will include some Layer 3 routing features, though rarely firewall functionality in my limited experience, which is frequently run right on the router.

@aksdb 🤣 @gravitas_deficiency

@quick_snail @ampersandrew yt-dlp works a charm for such occasions. You want the “nightly” build cause Google is actively resisting them, always, but they always win after a number of hours or days.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

@curbstickle @early_riser I drive a school bus. I have to maintain a seating chart for my kids, in case of accident and whatnot.

Let me tell you about the locked-in software that the Division is probably paying thousands per year to use, which I have to use in order to update that chart.

It’s… from the 90s. No javascript whatsoever. To update a seat, I click one of those HTML1.0 popopen lists. After I choose the new student, I wait about five seconds for the page to reload. There is no option to do a bunch of updates then hit save. Only this Promethean pecking at my geekish liver with each passing second.

I could code something better in a weekend and I never touch LLM slop of any kind, and I offered to, for free, because I will give it to all other drivers, but so far, they are not taking me up on it.

Proprietary = you* are meat for shareholder leeches

*edit: The “you” here being my local community, who have to pay for this garbage, but don’t get to see how fucking appallingly bad it is.

@freeman @mittyta I have not figured out the arrs entirely yet, I believe they make em weird and ugly on purpose, but I have noticed that when I add a series on seerr, it will try to download a full season in a single torrent, but does not seem to search for individual eps if it doesn’t find it.

I then go into the arr and click search on the individual episodes, and it usually finds them then. It’s brilliant at grabbing new stuff, but I’m finding it’s just easier for me to manually download and move older stuff, more and more.

@Bakkoda What software did you use? Or did you code your own? I’m using Navidrome at the moment, it’s okay and there’s lots of apps that extend features using its api, but I’m open to trying out a better project, if you’re onto something you’re happuy with.

@los0220 I might have a go at that since I’ve got a public-facing cloud server already. I’ve opened ports on my home firewall once or twice, but decided I’d rather accept the devil’s bargain of cloudflare than do that again.

Tailscale will probably stay in my mix, because if I ever try to loop a non-techie friend or relative into this, it will be a lot easier to explain “free service that make you connect” than “I’m gonna plug your PC into my janky hacksternet” :>

@Cort @TechSquidTV (looks over at his FreshRSS reader) whatchoo talkinbout Willis

@los0220 That’s the bit that I don’t understand yet about wireguard - you would need something with a static address or dyndns before you could implement it yourself, yes?

As it happens I just rented a linux server from ultra.cc and they have Wireguard as an installable thingy so I might have a go at that myself.

@los0220 Just setup Navidrome on my home Debian server not too long ago, am quite happy with it so far.

I am not familiar with Subsonic, but they use implement its API much like all the other Fedi servers use the Mastodon API, and thusly there are tons of client apps available. I installed Castafiore on my fairly old android, and have not seen any reason to try anything else, so far.

Add in a free Tailscale account and you’ve got your tunes everywhere.

@MIXEDUNIVERS

edit: didn’t close my /del tag correctly. It will be interesting to see if this correction edit gets back to Lemmy.

@JensSpahnpasta Sorry meant to reply the other day - also, I’m kinda fascinated how well my Mastodon instance is communicating with this Lemmy thread.

I’m not the dev of AudiomuseAI, just an interested tire kicker.

But like I said, based on what I know about Machine Learning, this could potentially be better at this specific set of human problems (creating playlists, finding similar new artists to maintain the presence of novelty, etc) than trying to draw upon the crowdsourced metadata (meatdata?) of a species of incredibly opinionated apes.

Like for wo examples, we can only assume that the weights will not care about considerations like authenticity as defined by your typical music fan, nor how “commercial” the track is, which has more than once bit me in the ass.

Like for instance, a friend of mine a few years ago played me this record that was perfect mid-70s Heavy Rock of exactly the sort that I like. And another time I heard this other tune on the radio, similarly full of that 70s Overdrive that I love, and was all “holy shit who’s that?”

The bands in question were The Osmonds (yes, those Osmonds) and Abba. I would never have looked in their back catalogues for good music that I missed. This thing will do that, in theory, as long as the weights get trained on a given track.

Still to be solved, seems to me, is a repository where people can share their trained weights for a given song; we could save a lot of time that way.

Currently 40% finished initial scanning after 48 hours, by the way. My collection is slightly bigger than 1tb of mostly Flac files.

@aquantumofdonuts I used Plex until Jellyfin reached Minimum Viable Product stage and never went back, and when I used it I did not pay, so I will never have any idea about that 😜

@JensSpahnpasta @Routhinator I’ve been playing with just such a thing this morning - I just started the ~80hr initial (CPU) analysis of my flac collection. Once complete, it purports to be able to do quite a lot stuff that sounds both useful and credible, based on what I know of this technology.

Entirely local processing, no planetkiller concerns. It does have the option to use the nasties, and yes, tempting to pay a few bucks to some bondvillain and have it done in a few minutes, but I’m sticking with good ol’ patience to get the job done on the same CPU I leave running 24/7 anyways.

(I might do some experimenting with Kubernetes later, cause my understanding is that I could make all our household machines into workers, and we have another couple in the house…)

@irmadlad I don’t run this instance, but I do generate so much of the traffic, I’m told, that I might as well 🤣

I already registered chezpants.ca nearly a year ago and I run my own servers, I’ve been stuck in decision paralysis about regular Mastodon vs GoToSocial. I think I’ve decided, just need a day to get it up and relearn CloudFlare…

@irmadlad I have a couple of sites going through Cloudflare Zero Trust, strictly done to get my head around Cloudflare, but at this point I’m kinda settling into just using Wireguard for everything personal, and I’m gonna push my Fedi servers through Cloudflare, because they are all public-facing information; if someone has a secret lost on the fedi, it’s not because of Cloudflare, it’s because they posted a secret on a 100% public network.

@enchantedgoldapple