Apple's Music app (formerly itunes) is only playing half of the tracks of a recently downloaded album. It then inexplicably skips to (or through) the next songs similarly.

Is it possible this is an anti-piracy measure? Interestingly, the labelled source appears to be 'web' so I'm wondering if the app somehow detects that it's an illicit source.

The problem does not occur in VLC or with other downloaded albums (although I recall something similar happening with Itunes many years ago on a different computer and/or OS so I can only assume the problem is not me and the actual file or app).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13897128

Lidarr++Deemix - A service to automatically add albums from Deemix

As someone who listens to a lot of niche artists, I was upset, that not all albums were present in MusicBrainz. So I came up with a solution.

Meet Lidarr++Deemix!

https://github.com/ad-on-is/lidarr-deemix

This tool helps to enrich Lidarr, by providing a custom proxy, that hooks into the process without modifying Lidarr itself, and injects additional albums from deemix.

I created this project some years back and the project just reached v1.1.0. I know most people have jellyfin servers and all set up, but if you have just a local folder of all your series saved up, you can use this to remember what you were watching.

All feedback is welcome. You can also contribute to the project

Repo: https://github.com/Dr-42/offflix

crossposted from here

Do you guys see a difference morally? Why or why not?

Educational - Science, Non-fiction books, Online courses, etc.

Entertainment - Games, Movies + TV, Fiction books, etc.

Hello Pirates.

Let me tell you a tale of a bounty I am proud of partaking. I have installed Risk of Rain Returns on a fresh Arch Linux distro, Wayland (i also needed XWayland) , KDE plasma 6, and GPU-accelerated.

Moreover, I have used another laptop i have at my disposal to become a 24/7 i2p router, which is able to capture the warez that were necessary to perform this bounty. This bounty can be obtained without the use of a vpn, since the game can be downloaded from the i2p postman site.

Because it was an exe file, I had to take certain steps to allow it to execute on my system. I installed lutris, as well as the arch linux dependencies that it required, and launched the installation executable through lutris

This journey was not without its challenges and setbacks. One such challenge I had to face to secure this bounty was to install the xorg-xwayland-explicit-sync patch. The nvidia drivers 550 is weird when playing games through XWayland, because it would render frames out of order. Applying this patch, as well as using envycontrol to switch to nvidia mode (i am on a dual-gpu laptop) worked in fixing this issue

overall, I am happy with this bounty. I actually feel morally regretful when pirating games, more so than pirating movies, because of just how much sweat and tears developers had to put in to making it happen. But I am broke, and I have bought Risk of Rain and its DLC in the past, so in the moral calculus of piracy I think I've balanced it out. I am quite broke right now, however, so games are outside of my price point and I'd rather have something to eat.

I love i2p. There's so many cool warez in there, and I believe it's the future of piracy. It allows us to decouple ourselves from VPN providers, because who knows how long until they turn against us.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13870420

ytdl-sub

ytdl-sub is a command-line tool that downloads media via yt-dlp and prepares it for your favorite media player, including Kodi, Jellyfin, Plex, Emby, and modern music players. No additional plugins or external scrapers are needed.

Gog-games has returned; if you missed it, they went private for a while, then announced they were coming back in a week. They seem to have come back early.

Not sure when this happened, but I just noticed I can't download any torrents or magnet links on 1337x without clicking Download without VPN.

At first, I wasn't even seeing the bottom half of that popup since uBlock was blocking it. When I added a custom rule to block the popup, that totally broke the download buttons, so I had to disable uBlock.

Is anyone else noticing this? I'm not going to disable my adblocker on freaking 1337x, I'll just stop going to 1337x 😆

Unless that's some error, what were they thinking?

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE

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I checked a few of the sites and search engines in the megathread but nothing came up so either they're not there or I'm doing something wrong

edit: Hosted Games is a studio

I've got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them.

After that I'd probably bring Star Trek TOS and a MOBI copy of Neuromancer by William Gibson combined with a portable install of VLC and Calibre in case the computer didn't have applications that support the file format.

What about you?

I wanted to phrase this in a way where it isn't a prolonged or desert island style question where the responsible idea would be to bring Wikipedia ZIMs and educational PDFs. It's just an awkward amount of time to kill. The mid 2000s office desktop stipulation is just an additional challenge so you can't just bring in a copy of Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077.

Edit: By mid 2000s I meant around 2005; the XP or Vista.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/11304633

Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5

Any idea how to access lavteam.org forum? After their hard drive crash it seems forum access is required to download any file. I tried to register but could not get the confirmation email.

I've been pirating for about twenty years, and now that I'm financially comfortable, I feel I should start to pay my way to help those who kept me entertained through the decades..

Really felt good clicking the "Paypal Donate" button on the QBittorrent update page 😂

I have been thinking about the Cerveza Crista edit of Star Wars: A New Hope that sporadically splices in beer ads and the Toy Story 3 edit alternate ending where they fall into the incinerator and it made me wonder if people have come across these kind of joke versions, in full, in the wild.

It seems like a majority of the time it's just short clips being made and reposted.

I'm not talking about the edits of movies where they do things like decrease the speed of the audio so it gradually desyncs from the rest of the movie or when they replace the entire movie with the Limewire Bill Clinton ad.

I want to download an article from JSTOR without paying $34. It's from 1958. That's outrageous.

Aside from wanting just text on my screen, without all the visual clutter, I want to be able to highlight & look up or translate. They've messed click-&-drag copying. If you try to copy a block of text, you don't get the 1st and last few characters from each line. If you highlight a word or 2 to look up or translate, you don't get all the characters you highlighted but you do get some you didn't want. Also, I like being able to highlight a PDF I own.

Didn't JSTOR used to give a couple of freebies/month or something like that?

Thanks.

For the last month I've been working on a modern, material you interface for Invidious.

Github (Leave a star if you want)

Hosted instance

Features

• Sponsorblock built-in.
• Return YouTube dislikes built-in.
• Video progress tracking & resuming.
• No ads.
• No tracking.
• Light/Dark themes.
• Custom colour themes.
• Integrates with Invidious subscriptions, watch history & more.
• Live stream support.
• Dash support.
• Chapters.
• Audio only mode.
• Playlists.
• PWA support.

I was using Spotiflyer for a while because it worked well and was available through F-Droid but it seems like the creator has moved on to an app called SoundBound that I haven't seen in the megathread or any of the other sites listed in the Other Treasures section.

I was wondering if there is a different Android app people are recommending for downloading MP3s of Spotify playlists. I am indifferent towards audio quality and don't mind missing out on a few Spotify-exclusive songs so if it is using YouTube MP3s that's fine with me.

Is there any pirated copy of resources for learning two Slavic languages?