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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yikes. Thanks for catching that. I mistyped.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Also check out thegeeks.click

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Saving this for lots of use in the future.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

 

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?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Obviously, you loose some from the kanban board

This is my point.

Also, isnt nextcloud deck via caldav read only?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Caldav doesn’t support kanban lmao.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

edit: -h is help. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

 

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?

 

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!

 

These groups do most mainstream shows with similar settings so when should you choose one over the other?

 

I have some Gnome extensions that are great but also have some bloatware that I’ve accumulated over the years.

Is it worth wiping the drive and doing a fresh install for Fedora 40?

 

What do you think?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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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