What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? - eviltoast

Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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    1 year ago

    so local media is the only solution for me

    I’d recommend installing a Plex server at home and using it to manage all your music. You can use the Plexamp app (available on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac and Linux) to stream music from your server, and the mobile apps have the ability to download playlists for offline listening. The basic features in Plexamp are free.

    IMO streaming your own media is the best of both worlds. Plexamp has a bunch of awesome features too.

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      1 year ago

      Plex still relies on an internet connection and limited phone storage though. iPods are just there, waiting for music to be put on them, music that you can still listen to even if your internet shits out.

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        1 year ago

        Can’t you use Plex entirely locally, other than the authentication?

        limited phone storage though

        Do you mean that Plexamp limits how much you can download?

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          No, I mean the phone’s storage limits how much you can download. If you’ve only got 64gb, then that’s your lot. With the more recent iPods (5G Classic onwards) you can easily drop a 512gb SD card in. I’ve seen 1tb done, but don’t know how stable that is.

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        1 year ago

        I’d try Jellyfin but I don’t know if it has a good equivalent to Plexamp. I saw something called “Jellyamp” but it looked like a desktop-only app, and seems abandoned now.

        I’d be looking for some of the fancier features that Plex and Plexamp have, like their sonic analysis (machine learning analysis of your music) that can suggest similar songs, fades between tracks, gapless playback for albums, etc.