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Even TS releases?
The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to the sound source (often an FM microbroadcast provided for the hearing-impaired, or from a drive-in theater).
Which JBODs do you use for your 20TB Seagate Exos, and would you recommend?
I’m looking for recommendations for a solution that will work for 3 × 22TB white-label Seagate Exos, but it seems to me that only very few of the various JBOD enclosures available online are actually good products worth buying, but it isn’t always clear to me if they even support 22TB drives…
Your link didn’t work for me, until I removed /en/ from it: new link
I removed my downvote after realizing you’re actually right, in a sense. In scene terms, a “webrip” can be a screen recording, whereas a “web-dl” by definition isn’t. By these definitions,
Things are usually ripped by recording the screen
could likely be true, even moreso if you count “recording hdmi stream after breaking hdcp” as a screen recording.
Or you could encode the hexdump to audio and press it into vinyl. But in this case, as well as the QR, i think, you’ll have to keep some physical backup (that isn’t encoded) of the decoding algorithms for QR or the audio, otherwise you just have some funky pixelart/bleepbloop sounds to enjoy but no data - if every other copy is gone… Well, you could spend the rest of your life trying to calculate it then?!
I switched to Jellycon that doesn’t integrate with the Kodi library, but rather acts like other basic Kodi add-ons. You can still browse the Jellyfin library through the add-on in Kodi, and through the Kore app by navigating to add-ons > Jellycon > Content tab, though I mostly initiate media playback from the Jellyfin app on Android. Direct play works too.
If you really wanted it, you could just upgrade and pay the entire difference between the cheaper and the faster subscription plan yourself, to let your roommate keep their original price. If the prices increase, calculate again
Like this:
$99 / 2 = $49.50 (his price)
$129 - $99 = $30 (the total difference to cover)
$49.50 + $30 = $79.50 (your price)
I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to download lossless files from Spotify
Any files in lossless formats from Spotify will not actually become magically lossless by converting them to a lossless format, though they will have a bigger size than the lossy mp3/aac/etc… file they were made from.
Some “Spotify downloaders” actually find the tracks on other sources and download them from there, but I’ve heard that Deemix (or Murglar for Android) with a Deezer ARL is a much better solution.
Good to hear that ed2k is still alive! It’s been ages since I’ve been there. Any advice for the best ed2k experience in 2024?
As we’re talking p2p clients here, I have to mention soulseek. It changed my life! It’s especially excellent for lossless and rare music, but various other types of media can be found there too. There are soulseek clients for most OS’s, including slskd to be selfhosted and accessed through a webui as well as graphical desktop clients, where I believe Nicotine+ is a popular choice.
Something like the XBUS seems like a good choice. They seem to focus on the important and practical stuff, and I can’t find any information about any sort of related subscription.
I don’t have much advise to give here, but a relevant question is: are you planning on running the services (except for torrent client) locally, or on a dedicated server that’s running as the seedbox as well? I think running it all on the seedbox would be the easiest to setup, and, from my understanding, you can pretty much just rent a dedicated server from a provider you trust and follow this guide. Maybe you’ll need to change a few things regarding the routing.
On AndroidTV, Kodi (formerly XBMC) with the Jellyfin addon (or Jellycon addon if you’re only casting from another client, and don’t need to sync the libraries) is still a much better video player than the Jellyfin app for AndroidTV imo. It’s more versatile regarding video codecs, and so much more customizable. Also, I really like the Arctic Zephyr skin!
Please understand that copying intellectual property and theft are, legally speaking, two different things. If I build a machine that just makes endless copies of your intellectual property, just because I can, it doesn’t affect your income whatsoever. You don’t get more poor for each copy that’s made.
I agree with you about pirating media that’s not legally available. However, a lot of great content will become unavailable at some point in the future. Making a copy for the archives while it’s possible is a good idea for any media you care about, since there’s no guarantee that anyone else cares.
3rd party launchers for Android TV changed my life for the better.
Currently running FLauncher on a Xiaomi Mi Box S 4K. Such a nice, clean experience without ads and with support for sideloaded apps, and good customisation options.
I tried Leanback On Fire first, and it was decent too, but FLauncher suited my needs better, customisation-wise.
Have a look at SmartTube. You’ll have to transfer the apk to your AndroidTV and sideload it.