Faceman2K23

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[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Thanks to the media shovelling fear, misinformation and lies into our minds. I blame Facebook, Twitter and Murdoch for this one.

The conspiracy theories around this issue were fucking wild. Ranging from the UN taking control of our government, to abolishing all land ownership and giving them the right to have your home demolished, to some bizarre thing about the pope or some shit.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For bulk diverse, pre-tagged and sorted collections you really have to go to p2p like soulseek.

For tagging picard is really the only option that can handle bulk tagging with some level of trust and authority, but definitely have a backup or work in chunks just in case it goes awry.

For a spotify replacement, Plexamp is really doing well as long as you have decently tagged media. It can do all the mood radio and playlist suggestion stuff that Spotify and others have been doing.

FF6, FF9 and Links Awakening

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well.. that's usually a good indicator another season is coming

That was such a dumb release, I love it. Perfectly on brand from them.

The actual surround mix itself is fantastic, lots of motion and depth.

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If anyone has the means and a proper setup for it, the surround sound mix of this album is a crazy experience.

I think it's worth figuring out why Fileflows wasn't using your hardware, if you re running in a container you may need to manually map the hardware device for example. you can customise and configure as much as you want too, you can even go as far as custom ffmpeg command line options, and having multiple options based on the flow you write.

However, the CPU encode will provide better image quality in most cases, and since you can set it to run slowly in the background with a couple of CPU cores and limited usage you can just let it run and eventually it will be done.

I run fileflows on my file server and it is using a GPU, but some files have to fall back to CPU (my GPU is a bit older so there are some unsupported files) in which case it gets just a single core and takes its time. it's saved me several terabytes of space archiving old content in libraries that I consider less than critical. I could have just run a one time ffmpegbatch run, but I like having it checking regularly so that new additions to the library enter the flow, they stay untouched for

This is a good meme.

search for the "BR-DISK" tag

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Totally different software solutions aimed at different users, and many people use both.

Plex is a Server software that handles media management, libraries, users, etc etc.. and a range of player apps that have a somewhat beginner friendly layout requiring little to no setup

Personally, I run a large Plex server that provides content for my family across dozens of mixed devices in home and out of home, different users have access to different libraries and have different preferences. If needed it will automatically transcode content for remote users out of the home to fit my upload bandwidth and their available speed if they are on mobile. it keeps track of watched content and position for all users so they can move between devices seamlessly.

Kodi is an extensible media player frontend, it can play files from a remote server or NAS but there is no server management, it is just doing basic file access. there are addons for many common services and media sources but there is no user management, no transcoding, no sharing content with other clients etc etc. Having multiple kodi installs on multiple players requires each client to be configured more or less from scratch and no easy way to have multiple setups for different users with their own preferences, libraries and/or content restrictions. It is extremely powerful and configurable and has strong format support.

I have Kodi installed on one of my Nvidia Shield Pros but only use it for playback of surround music files (support for 5.1 flac on plex seems to be limited to audio within video containers for some reason) I find the interface (and all the skins I tried) extremely clunky for use as a music player, the way the remote works within the player itself is unintuitive and makes for an annoying experience restarting the track when you just want to move the playback a few seconds, a bit unfair of course as that isn't what it was made for but that's just my experience.

Jellyfin is great and I follow its development and test it every now an then but it is nowhere near fully featured or well supported enough or me to transfer my family over to.

I will eventually, when it's ready.

Another Tdarr alternative with (i think) a more flexible and automatable setup is FileFlows (the free version is all you need) you can build node based rulesets and apply those rules to different libraries.

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