The thing about marriage is that anybody can do it. You don’t have to love somebody to marry them. It isn’t special. There’s no test you have to take together or qualifications you have to meet.

So yeah - he’s angry, and lonely, and he’s also married, but none of those things are related to each other.

Sounds like he needs therapy, but in our society men aren’t encouraged to share emotions if it doesn’t perpetuate an image of strength. So he’s expressing his emotions in a “socially acceptable” way: anger. Which is probably what also got him into these backwards ideas about his political ideology as well.

Plexamp can do all of this (not sure about mdna speakers though) and it has Tidal integration.

Finamp will also work but it lacks library/genre radio and mix support last time I checked.

can people just be reasonable?

Not when there are pearls to be clutched.

Should be the same across any instance.

Hot: calculated using the current score (up/down votes) in combination with how new it is.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/migrations/2023-10-23-184941_hot_rank_greatest_fix/up.sql

Active: calculated using current score in combination with the timestamp of the newest comment:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/crates/db_schema/src/aggregates/post_aggregates.rs

Google’s own Shaka sdk (video playback with ads) gives ad markers in the initial video manifest so that they can be marked on the timeline, so hopefully it’ll be trivial. Usually (but not always) with SSAI, the ads are spliced into the stream just before being sent to the client. That way if a user has just recently watched an ad pod, the server can choose to ignore that marker for a better UX in hopes that they don’t bounce if ads are too frequent.

I run both side-by-side, but for me Plex is still the clear winner right now for features and polish.

Sure. Obviously it’s more complex than that, but it helps illustrate where the math came from in the parent comment. I don’t know why Tidal pays more, but I’m hypothesizing its because most of their “co-owners” of Tidal are themselves, artists/musicians, which IMO is significantly better than the out of touch folks running Spotify.

Think of it not in terms of revenue percentages, but by payouts per song stream:

So song for song, Apple is paying 2.5x what Spotify is (.008/.00318), and Tidal is paying out a whopping 4x what Spotify pays.

Sauce: https://producerhive.com/music-marketing-tips/streaming-royalties-breakdown/

Yeah I’m on the free plan which used to include FLAC and 320kpbs, but they stopped doing that for free plans about a year ago I think.

I’ve been using deemix, and for the most part it’s been pretty seamless. Stuff direct downloads instantly, but it’s all in 128kbps now unfortunately. Then I have lidarr monitor everything for a lossless version.

You should check out Plexamp while you bridge the gap. It has tidal support built in, and you can self-host your own collection as you build it up. Then when you’re done with tidal, you don’t have to learn or download a new app.

Thanks! It was a Python backend that the data science team at UCAR built and a Vue.js front end.

Damn that’s crazy. When I was just out of college I built the touchscreen web app that promoted this thing in the lobby of UCAR. Looks like it’s still running for now: https://hpctv.ucar.edu

The author obviously thought the value was worth it when he made the purchase. Now he’s sad that others think it’s worth less than he paid? So for him the perceived value of his purchase is based on what other people think, which is pretty sad. Then he does this self-depreciating write up about the experience, calling himself a fool.

Spend your money how you want, but don’t let other people’s opinions determine how you feel about it. You’ll get no sympathy from me, bud.

What an incoherent mess of an article.

*on desktop

Aren’t they all still WebKit under the hood though? Until they allow other web engines this is still just the illusion of choice.

I’d rather give the ad revenue dollars to a small, independent company like Plex over a media giant like ViacomCBS if the content is similar. Just my 2¢.

https://watch.plex.tv/live-tv

has tons of free tv-like channels with a slew of content. Plus you can self-host your own media on there for free too if you that’s your thing.

This is what I use and it works great.