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Dolby Digital (e-ac & e-ac3) are lossy codecs. So transcoding a lossy codec to a lossless codec, is not a good idea.

You can read more about it here: https://interviewfor.red/en/transcodes.html



Nothing. It’s just that you don’t see people use flac very often as an audio codec for movies or TV series. At least I haven’t seen it very often.

The only issue would be if you were trying to transcode Dolby Digital to flac. That is not a transcode you want to do.


Okay so I just went a private general tracker and looked up an av1 movie. It is a 2014 feature film encoded by the WhiskyJack group (the better trackers don’t allow AV1 content yet). For this film, the audio codec is Opus. I looked in the nfo and for the audio file, it says that they are using Opus 5.1 with a 32 bit rate. That’s not ideal. For 6-channel audio, we recommend 256 kb/s. 192 is acceptable, but it’s going to be another 20 megabytes to bump it up to 256, so why not do it?

Also, it doesn’t tell you what the source is. So if the original audio was ac3 or e-ac3, it is not going to sound great.


I’m pretty active in the av1 community. Most of us who use av1 encode our own from the raw blurays or high quality remuxes. Besides the av1 content on public trackers, I think I saw a group called onlyfaffs and another one called WhiskyJack who were both putting out some av1 content, but imo, their filesizes are too large, so I avoid them if possible.

The other thing to worry about is that most people who use av1 also convert the audio to opus. Fully opensource codecs and all that. The issue is you don’t know what bitrate they are using for their conversion. So audio is a concern too when downloading av1 content.


Also check out thegeeks.click

I don’t have an extra invite tho… maybe someone else does?


You can rename the files using qBit. Just use its “rename files” feature. You can also rename folders this way.

As far as tagging in musicbrainz, I don’t think you will be able to do that because it will mean that you will have changed the contents of the files themselves. I could be wrong on that and someone else might be able to tell you how to do it though.


Is there a way to prioritize specific trackers in qBit?
I’d like to prioritize bandwidth for trackers where ratio is hard and de-prioritize trackers where almost everything is freeleech. Is there a way to do this?
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Obviously, you loose some from the kanban board

This is my point.

Also, isnt nextcloud deck via caldav read only?


Caldav doesn’t support kanban lmao.



Your home server is your seedbox. Call it that. Not sure why you’re getting hung up on semantics.


Just send a PM to the staff. They let you use certain vpns as long as it is noted in your account.

Source: I use a VPN with MaM and that is how I did it.


Using Dockerized qBittorrent 4.6.x - How do I create new torrents?
I know how to do it on a bare-metal installation. But on the Docker version, I can't figure out how to create a brand new torrent. Can someone help me out?
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okay. Thanks. Gonna give it a go. It seems to be the one everyone is using.


I was just looking at this. Do you typically run it behind a VPN or do you expose your actual IP?


What is your preferred way of downloading youtube videos?
I'm looking to download a number of educational youtube videos for future reference. Looking for a reliable way to download videos. OS is Ubuntu. FF extensions and docker containers all good. I don't really want to install an executable on bare metal unless it is a flatpak. My goal is for the downloaded videos to be accessed locally via jellyfin. Jellyfin is already sorted. Thanks in advance for your recommendations!
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You absolutely could automate it, but I personally enjoy making the encodes, so I don’t. Especially with movies, sometimes you use opus but on a select few, like the Dune movies, I keep the original atmos audio because it makes the movie experience better imo.

But for tv series, my ffmpeg settings are pretty static so it would be trivial to automate that.



I’m probably in the minority, but I like the Epsilon remuxes and then compress it myself to av1 with ffmpeg. DTS-HD MA track goes to opus. I keep the English subtitles as-is.


The irony of posting a font piracy guide in a place that only supports plaintext…


Put it on any pastebin and then just post the link here. Nothing fancy.


So Jellyfin by default uses The Movie Database. However, you can manually direct Jellyfin to use The TV Database for specific TV shows if you want. You just have to rename the Series folder. In The TVDB, Pokemon Journey’s is Season 19.

To have JF use The MovieDB, you have your rename the Series folder: Pokémon (1997) [tmdbid-60572]. To use the TVDB, the Series folder would be renamed to: Pokémon (1997) [tvdbid-76703].

Unfortunately, JF doesn’t support IMDB for TV. Only movies. Neither is ideal for your use-case though. Sorry dude.


I’m not sure what the semantics are. Maybe you defederate from an instance and block a community? But I’m just guessing. Semantics aside, if someone has an account at lemmy.world and tries to access the piracy community, they will not be successful.




Yeah the 560s sound perfect. I’m very excited now. Thank you!!


Perfect! This is exactly what I was looking for. I’ll pick up a pair of the HD560s when it goes on sale. Thank you so much for the recommendation!


I’m in the market for fancy headphones. What do you recommend? I mostly listen to flac tracks ripped from CDs and also would use headphones for watching movies from Jellyfin. All done at home.





What are your opinions on EPSiLON vs FraMeSToR
These groups do most mainstream shows with similar settings so when should you choose one over the other?
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This is really cool.

One thing that I find really helpful is when authors put a sample docker-compose.yml in their repository and link to it from the readme.md. Helps with the initial lift of getting started.


I laughed.

Definitely not going to map to more volumes than necessary. It’s okay if you ban me. I’ll deal with it.


Just so you know, the example docker compose file has /downloads as the only volume option for media. So I pointed the internal docker folder /downloads at my whole music library.

So you’re almost certainly banning people who are sharing their whole library if they are using the default docker compose file. For example, you would ban me by that rationale.


What is good SoulSeek etiquette?
I'm new to Soulseek. Got my Nicotine+ docker set up w/ VPN through gluetun. I'm good to go. Port forwarding is working correctly and I'm sharing a little over 100GB of flacs that I have ripped personally with EAC and a couple people have downloaded some of my stuff, which is really cool. I don't have privileges rn. But I there are a lot of albums that I've lost over the years that I see on SoulSeek. I want them. But I want to make sure I don't get blocked or banned. So, say a person has 3-5 whole albums that I want. Is it proper to just download them all at once? I've seen things like this on one person's profile page: > If you start browsing my share like it is a shop and queueing everything you come across e.g. whole artist folders, I will just remove you. So a little guidance from this community would make me feel a little more confident?
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