Not always, but occasionally I have issues with playing a video and the language not being my preferred (English). Either the video doesn't have English audio or it's not the default. Not a biggie but it can waste some time if there's no talking for the first few min and my family isn't used to navigating audio settings.
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VLC lets you set automatic audio preference matching, so that you type in "eng" in the settings, and it will try and pick an audio track that has "eng" in it's title, great for multi-lang media but doesn't work for stuff like commentary tracks rarely.
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Continued losses, in the billions, for ad-riddled streaming services is all I can ask for.
Arr service that links with SoulSeek, automatically downloads music, passes it through beets, calculates ReplayGain values and the rest of the missing metadata and then organizes and renames it
This is the fucking dream. Lidarr is serviceable to get a library going, but we could do so much better.
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More I2P torrenting support
Arr software for YouTube with Sponsorblock built in.
A way to use Sponsorblock on podcasts.
Like to download videos from your subscriptions?
Yep. Add to the server with ads and sponsor bs removed.
You wouldn't want the Sponsorblock to be part of the download process, but rather the player. Being crowdsourced, it's not immediate and often gets improved/corrected over time, so a video's least likely to have good Sponsorblock timestamps right after being uploaded (when an automated program would likely be downloading it).
We need a Plex/Jellyfin/etc. metadata provider with the Sponsorblock info included. Could keep the data up to date, even after the videos are downloaded.
Interesting. I’d not considered that Plex could build it in. That of course relies on accurate YouTube metadata but it’s not impossible.
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Adding proper metadata to releases. Why are we still trying to decipher release titles, why not add a little metadata JSON file to every release and make the info available to the search API?
Also keeping multiple different versions of a release in Arr apps, like ebook and audiobook in different languages. Right now I'd need 4 Readarr instances to get the English and German audiobook and ebook versions of a book, and don't even think about letting them manage the same root folder!
and following proper naming conventions too. why can't releasers decided to choose one single naming convention together so it makes our job better to automate things?
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A separate file or if the first few bytes of a file contained the metadata.
Sorry, best we can do is some unrelated ASCII art.
At least they sometimes include insane rants.
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Honestly? Resurrection of Rarbg. That site was gold.
there are some entry level private trackers that are good as rarbg but you have to keep track of minimum seeding time and ratio for that, plus you have to wait for open sign-ups if you are a beginner.
I don't really care about the site, but their releases were fast and had consistent X265 quality, nothing new matches them
Pahe is quite fast, PSA recently did something to their encoding and often/mostly can't play them anymore on my TV, they worked fine up until last year, not sure what they messed up, at least with pahe X265 I have guarantee it will work
That was the cleanest and most curated movie site I have ever come across, honestly a big loss to have them gone. Consistent naming scheme, amazing torrent video quality (unlike low bitrate YTS), icons/logos to show what medium the rip was from. Literal gold
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sci-hub doesn't get new research papers any more, and the new alternatives are all much less user friendly. As far as I can tell, wosonhj.com is what's currently recommended, where you have to post in a forum and wait for either a bot or a human to send the paper to you. Other alternatives, like annas-archive, nexusbot or STC all didn't have the paper I was looking for.
I just want old sci-hub back, honestly.
You can maybe try your local library or Wikipedia’s
Honestly my biggest thing is for affordable 10 or even 20 TB SSDs to hit the market.
what's the point of SSD for archival purposes? seem like less safe option than HDD and speed is not really issue for long term archiving or watching TV shows/movies, I don't really see point in SSD besides running OS/apps
To each their own. I don't care for the bulk of RAID setups or the transfer and seek time of individual spinning disks.
Unfortunately you'll be waiting for a while. SSDs were at the lowest last year to the point that manufacturers were almost losing money. So they reduced production. We will only see the prices going up from now, at least for a while.
You can't really even find a 10+ TB SSD easily right now let alone anything approaching 20, so it's a moot point for now anyway. All that pricing stuff is cyclical though. There was a big spike in SSD prices a couple years ago prior to that huge price drop we just saw. It'll come back down again eventually.
We just moved over to a HDD setup recently because I had run out of space on SSD and the amount of space is great, but I forgot how much I hate HDD seek and transfer times and I'm not gonna invest in RAID for now so I guess this is my life.
Might be smart to maybe keep my most active shows on an SSD and the rest of the catalog on the HDD.
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I've been waiting for that for over ten years now. I thought it would take two at most.
Samsung is selling some somewhat affordable 8TB drives but I feel like that's kind of an odd spot for size where it'll hold a lot of stuff, but when you get to that level of kinda semi-deranged collector mentality file hoarding, you're gonna blow past 8 pretty easily. I'm hoping it'll actually happen in a few years.
What's the current price roughly?
I have not seen a consumer SSD of 10 or more TB for sale anywhere and absolutely not 20. So the answer is, I have no idea.
Samsung has started selling 8TB drives for around 500-600 which is really not that bad, but I'm just gonna wait a couple years for larger capacities to hit the market and skip 8. It's in my opinion kind of a middling size if you're archiving a lot of video.
For now I'll just stick with the high capacity HDD setup I'm using.
Guessing you've got some sort of raid setup going on. You could always get lower capacity SSDs and do some work on a revolutionary compression algo 😉
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More VR porn 😸