dangravell

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by dangravell 4y ago
There are lots of people who still purchase CDs. At least four a week is my normal haul from charity shops!
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by dangravell 5y ago
This. It's just silly to throw data away. Who knows when you might need to transcode?
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by dangravell 5y ago
It can - it has supported RIFF INFO from the start, and ID3 support exists. If software writers choose to not extract metadata from WAVs that's up to them... but I guess it amounts to the same thing if you only want to use software tha
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by dangravell 5y ago
Arguably there doesn't need to be a de facto standard, because there's a de jure one: RIFF INFO. But anyway, if you're going to do WAV tagging (and remember software support remains poor) most people are using ID3.
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by dangravell 5y ago
Indeed. And practically it does become important for example when transcoding later...
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by dangravell 5y ago
Maintainer and operator of Astiga here - thanks for mentioning the service!
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by dangravell 5y ago
I broadly agree - but maybe the GP's issue was how this looks on a page - with all the generated links. Maybe if you had the pages, but the list of links was less intrusive it might be better. But granted, the SEO for these generated p
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by dangravell 5y ago
This. Funny how "WAVs don't have metadata" has become such a meme. What is really meant is "software doesn't support WAV metadata". This has changed over the past five years or so, though.
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by dangravell 5y ago
I operate a service that does this: https://asti.ga/ Happy to answer any questions. I also wrote up some other example services a while back: - https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021
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by dangravell 5y ago
Yeah - freshen it up. You might be interested in reading something like Deep Work or https://www.defetter.com/ on the subjects of distraction. Consider having no music at all, or white/pink/brown noise. Other thin
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by dangravell 5y ago
It's definitely an app-level thing. About album art specifically I tried hacking around a bit, but when the software itself is buggy you're a bit limited in what you can do https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-man
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by dangravell 5y ago
To be fair, the parent said "impractical to navigate using a common stereo UI" which doesn't have much to do with the capaciousness of a library, more about how easy it is to browse/search/find/choose what you
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by dangravell 5y ago
My service, Astiga, does this. You can upload your files to any supported cloud storage service, pair it with Astiga, then play either via the Web, our apps or any other client that supports Subsonic. https://asti.ga/
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by dangravell 5y ago
Depends what you mean by prohibitively... you can store that for $5/month...
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by dangravell 5y ago
An alternative is to use a cloud based player, and stream music from a cloud storage service. Disclaimer: I run this service: https://asti.ga/ I've written up some alternatives at https://www.blisshq.com&#x2
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by dangravell 5y ago
> WAV files don't have metadata like mp3 files (typically) do. I feel it's my civic duty here to repeat: they do, in fact they even support ID3 tags, but it's up to the software developer as to whether they support them or
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by dangravell 5y ago
That's not necessarily the reason people choose FLAC. Some people, myself included, simply feel it's "wrong" to throw data away. Remember you might need that data later for re-encoding or otherwise changing the audio.
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by dangravell 5y ago
Got me thinking. I wonder how much scope there is to build apps for platforms like Spotify which are built around a given use case. For example - for people that prefer listening to albums. Or people that only care about political podcasts.
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by dangravell 5y ago
https://bleep.com/ https://www.hdtracks.com/
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by dangravell 5y ago
Yeah, I see your point. I was making an assumption that audio podcasts have a different... usage profile? or user flow?... to album listening. I might have been distracted by "podcast" which I tend to associate with the spoken wor
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by dangravell 5y ago
But wait - as soon as you start adding audio podcasts, that's a different use case, and the original UX that it looks like the Doppler author concentrated on and refined for people that buy music is compromised. And then we add this,
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by dangravell 5y ago
Agree about different uses of metadata. But I don't really understand your point about butchering data and KV stores. It just seems to me the author is opinionated about (what they see as) the most important entity types to organise th
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by dangravell 5y ago
I don't agree with it all, but this is an interesting thought piece I recently came across: https://absolutelybaching.com/music-articles/the-axioms-of-c...
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by dangravell 5y ago
I'm not really sure I'd recommend ID3. It's the worst of both worlds: constrained by the limitations of the de facto storage mechanisms and overly prescribed and frankly ignored by a lot of software, bar the main fields.
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by dangravell 5y ago
One thing to consider is what you really mean when you say music metadata, because you didn't mention where you want to use or store this metadata. Are you talking about released music, or simply information about the work? Publishing
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by dangravell 5y ago
Abney? It's a beautifully put together show, to be fair. Nice and calm! And porridge.
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by dangravell 5y ago
They've been around quite a while, but just seem to be gathering momentum. Synology have put a few feet wrong just recently. With QNAP also on a marketing push I'm looking forward to some competition in this space.
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by dangravell 5y ago
In addition to the Handbrake suggestions, you can use HandbrakeCLI if you're on a headless media server. Before, I used to use dvdbackup then ffmpeg for DVD ripping. I found HandbrakeCLI did a better job, though, of handling errors in
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by dangravell 5y ago
Indie developer too - https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0...
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by dangravell 5y ago
Although - if you host Plex in EC2 in the same availability zone, that's not a problem is it?

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