Doing this is generally a bad idea, because audio exported from YouTube is pretty poor quality, and music videos often have bits of talking or silence that make sense in context of the video but aren’t part of the actual song (designed to prevent exactly this). There was a cli tool I used last year that could download music from Spotify directly.

Edit: The tool I was talking about is Zotify

Make sure to set the --download-quality flag to very_high if you have premium to ensure it downloads in max quality

If you have long playlists (more than a few hundred songs), you should also use the --skip-previously-downloaded and --song-archive flags as per the docs to make sure you can start again from where you left off, as Spotify will start to rate-limit your connection and downloads will fail (if this happens, just kill the tool, wait a few minutes and start again)

Navidrome can scrobble to ListenBrainz which starts giving you recommendations playlists after a couple of weeks :)

This issue is, the default dashboard is done per client, not per user (I think they’re changing this, or have done very recently??)

So if you:

• clear cookies
• reinstall the app
• clear app data
• change your instance’s ip/domain
• set up a new device

then it will revert to the stock “overview” dashboard.

Of course, how often this happens depends on how often you do any of those things so for some it’s not an issue, while for others it’s a frequent annoyance

Thanks for the recommendation, it certainly seems like an interesting project, although it’s current capabilities are almost backwards from what I actually want. My current workflow is:

• Listen to my library in Navidrome via Feishin/Tempus
• Scrobble my listens to ListenBrainz
• ListenBrainz generates my weekly recommendations playlist (things not in my library)
• I listen to the playlist on the ListenBrainz site via YouTube embeds
• Any songs I like, I download high quality FLAC files of using slskd by buying legitimately

Just being able to see my recommended songs in Tempus would remove some of the barrier of having to log in to ListenBrainz every week (which I often push to the bottom of my to-do list and end up missing recommendations). I don’t even really need to stream them directly in the app, just being able to see them and open the YouTube link would be a good start.

I get that this might be a bit of a niche way of doing things and everyone will have a slightly different idea though, I don’t really expect my exact personal workflow to be catered for by open source devs.

It might be a bit out of scope (at least for now) but something I’d love to see eventually is the ability to pull down weekly recommendations from ListenBrainz and view them natively in-app. Even if they just linked to the YouTube video, it would make self hosting music feel like it had the last remaining benefits of streaming services.

Two words: Extension cords

Us extension cords (or power strips or whatever you want to call them) practically catch fire if you look at them wrong. Over here, there’s much more leeway for plugging multiple loads into a single socket.

It supports HDMI CEC so I just use the remote that came with my TV

It’s a little bulkier than a Chromecast but for my TV at home I use a Raspberry Pi 5 with Konstakang’s Android TV LineageOS images installed. It works pretty well and I could see it being fairly portable.

Thank you for your work on this! I switched from Tempo to Tempus after seeing one of these updates a few weeks ago. It’s great to this is being maintained!

If you use Zigbee2MQTT in Home Assistant, you actually can update the firmware on Hue devices, obviously it’s up to you if you actually want to push the update though

Clbuttic mistake to make

It might be too late for you, but for anyone else who stumbles across this:

The easiest way to transfer emails is just log into a client like Thunderbird, let it download them all, select all, then drag and drop them all to your new provider. If you have a lot of historic emails, filter by year and do one year at a time

• Continually increasing subscription prices
• Ripping off artists
• Introducing AI bullshit
• Blocking explicit songs unless users verify their age with a third party

Do you know who wrote the buggy code?

Of course I know him. He’s me

Pretty sure Wikipedia has a single button that changes all present tense to past sense. Someone who’s more familiar with it correct me if I’m wrong though.

In Luigi’s Mansion 2, there is a boo who speaks in binary called Boolean… At least, in the British release. In the US localisation, its name is “Combooter” which is a far less satisfying pun.

VRChat for fans of anime girl streamers

Isn’t that just… Ya know… VRChat?

You might like this (if you’re not already familiar with this masterpiece) https://youtu.be/_-BjC1GHwPY

I’m no expert, but I read that self hosting your own instance doesn’t actually help with privacy since the search providers still track those requests and if you’re the only one using it, that’s just tracking you with extra steps.

Of course if you use a public instance, you have to then trust that the instance isn’t tracking you

This is certainly the nicest OpenStreetMap client I’ve used. I just wish OpenStreetMap wasn’t so car focussed. Still no public transport data for most of the UK :(