What is Lucida?
Soulseek is great apart from the arseholes who lock their entire collections wanting people to basically pay them for access in the form of bandcamp vouchers or buying them specific releases to “trade” for what you want. Fuck those people.
Napster was there before Kazaa, it was just a string of services popping up after others got shut down. Good times!
Don’t get me wrong I don’t regret setting it all up as it was a good, if somewhat steep learning curve for me as someone with no Linux experience beyond installing a couple of distros and using them solely as GUI OS’s. In all honesty though keeping it simple and having full control over the files I’m getting is working absolutely fine for me and I don’t feel the need to make it any more complex with the various arrs, the only exception being I want to look deeper into bazaar as I need subtitles for everything.
Anyway I do absolutely nothing to clean up the files. I copy my magnet links into qbittorrent and set which folder I want it to download to, movies / shows etc. Jellyfin libraries are set to each of these folders by their respective type and then when some new stuff is downloaded I’ll just access my jellyfin dashboard and scan all libraries.
So far with zero file cleaning jellyfin has detected 85% of things correctly regardless, for anything not detected it takes barely any time to go into the identify menu, search for the correct title and choose the relevant correct info.
I’m running proxmox with 3 VMs, one for docker with the arr stack, qbittorrent and gluetun to direct all that traffic via my VPN. One for a Plex server (which hasn’t failed to detect anything so far without file cleaning) and one for the jellyfin server.
I recently had my first foray into this setup and I have found the arr stack to be all but useless on public trackers. I haven’t setup flaresolvarr so that I can use 1337x and maybe that is why it is so terrible for me but prowlarr couldn’t even find a fast and furious movie that is a popular, well seeded film.
Maybe the addition of 1337 would make it much better but I’m skeptical as to how much difference that one place can make.
I ultimately now just find what I need manually and add the torrent to my server via the web interface then leave it and everything else sorts itself, which I’m fine with doing.
Maybe I’m missing something but I think the arr stack is massively overrated on public trackers. I’m going to look into Usenet next as someone else suggested but it isn’t anything I’ve ever used and I don’t have the money to pay for any right now anyway.
According to this list the switch currently has around 40 exclusive games. The majority of these I’m guessing are Nintendo games and will probably be ones that emulators prioritise working with.
For everything else you could want there is probably going to be a PC version or another console that could also be emulated should the switch version not work. The PC version will probably be superior anyway as switch games are mostly running in an inferior manner.
I dont think this is even a question that needs considering when you factor in the sheer amount of other game options you have for the steam deck whether you are pirating them or actually purchasing them. In my opinion you’d be foolish to get a switch, not least because Nintendo are a deplorable company and personally I think their first party games are shite.
I dont think it is a direct copy but a lot of these are going to overlap with information anyway. I believe this one I got from this community and was just adding it for another option. I mainly us FMHY myself.
I’ve wanted to try out NFS Unbound for a while now, it regularly goes down to single digit prices but I’d rather eat shit than install an EA launcher on my machine.
Well this exact image was posted a month ago - Here and I’m pretty sure I saw it posted before then as well.
However people are giving you the up arrows so I don’t think it really matters tbh.
I knew absolutely nothing about this subject before the beginning of the year and now I have a server setup with proxmox an arr stack and both Plex and jellyfin running and it is all thanks to TechHut videos and guides.
He is the only person that seemed to explain things in a way that made sense for me as someone who had barely any Linux experience. The trash guides that everyone recommends I just couldn’t make much sense of.
So another vote for tech hut from me.
Yeh I guess, if you don’t like listening to music then sure it is tedious.
There are more ways to listen and discover music than ever before. In the past you had mainly radio or word of mouth and even then your exposure was extremely narrow based on the radio stations tastes. You now have so many other avenues for exploration and discovery.
Basically you want to be handed a list of stuff you are already going to like with no effort on your part, that isn’t really tedium, more laziness on your part.
Although not exactly the same media I had the same feelings with public vs private trackers in the past when looking for audiobooks. I wasn’t convinces that a private trackers would be any better.
Boy was I wrong, MAM was like a revelation to me and I have found everything I have wanted quickly and easily since.
I dont know how private trackers compare from movies / shows etc but if it is anything like my experience with MAM they are going to be significantly better than public.
I do agree to some degree but the problem here is that you are relying too much on just “the algorithm” to serve you up new and interesting stuff. Whilst some times maybe it comes in clutch for the most part, like you say, it is trash.
You need to go out and put in a little bit of work listening to things in other places, following rabbit holes based common denominators or listening to DJ mixes / radio shows, hearing a song you like then going on a mission to find out what it was.
You say it is tedious but you have so many options these days to explore if you just put in a little effort. It used to be tedious as fuck buying a CD for £15 based on a cover or one song you heard on the radio only to find the majority of the music you hate and it was a waste of money!
I do see what you are saying but your methods just need to evolve with time, also as you have gotten older in theory you should have got to know yourself better in terms of what you do and don’t like which should help streamline finding things.
The claim of sameness and that first article are moot points really because you are referring solely to popular music which is a small percentage of the overall music. Pop music has always been a bit boring and same-y by design, it is appealing to the broadest audience possible usually but your original response claimed music in general to not be interesting. Pop music ≠ all music.
In terms of finding new things then you need to put in some effort if you don’t want to just rely on an algorithm.
Bandcamp have genre tags to explore, you can follow tags as well as artists and it will make recommendations based on what you are following everyday. They will also “spotlight” artists and such on a main front page that isn’t affected by your followers which can help with discovering something some what removed from your current listening.
SoundCloud has similar genre tags but also lots of DJ shows of many different kinds. Listen through shows, take note of the tracks you like and then look up that artist, look at “similar artists”, look for the record label that released something you like and explore their back catalogue.
Look on store fronts at their charts based on sales. Places like beatport or Juno etc often have top 10, 50, 100 within genres for the week or month or year. Have a scroll through them, have a listen. Again if you find something you like then go down the rabbit hole, try their other stuff out, look for artists the collabed with or would play shows with them etc etc.
Communities are everywhere no matter what social media you choose you can usually find music based discussion or sharing on such a granular level with specific sub genres and more obscure stuff often coming to the surface. There aren’t many on Lemmy here yet that are super active but they are growing. If you love a particular genre then start a community here and by extension that’ll help motivate you to find new things to post and start growing that community here.
Ultimately I don’t think it is harder to find music it is just that the methods have changed as time goes on.
Don’t write off all “modern music”, you’ll be missing out for sure :)
It still is, that problem lies with you and an inability to find things you like from a selection that is only ever expanding and becoming more diverse as time goes on.
It is OK to like a specific era and for that to be your favourite but to claim that modern music isn’t interesting is just a shitty take. You just don’t personally like it.
Oh cool, thanks for the link. I’ll be interested to try it but I’m skeptical it will be “high quality” until I try. Pretty sure SoundCloud only streams at 128 doesn’t it?
Either way I’ll give it a try and get a spectral analyser on some files!