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New comment by fonema in "Audiobookshelf: Self-hosted audiobook and podcast server"

fonema — Fri, 09 May 2025 15:41:57 +0000

Same here. I do this because ABS android app would not accurately track my listening progress, and is very frequently off after a pause. May be off by 30 min, by an hour, gets rather frustrating relistening the same segments. Was never able to solve this.

New comment by fonema in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

fonema — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:20:45 +0000

On Windows for many years now I've been putting things anywhere and then relying on a program called "Everything" to find stuff. I'm very happy with this set up. It allows extremely quick file system searches. I've tried to work with neatly organized folders at times but I would always get lost in them and things end up in the wrong place anyway.

New comment by fonema in "I've acquired a new superpower"

fonema — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:24:39 +0000

Same here, but I always imagined that for it to work, I would need to have roughly equal vision in both eyes, which I don't. Everything is blurry with my left eye, and no glasses or lenses have ever helped. I attribute this as the reason.

New comment by fonema in "OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt"

fonema — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 07:45:55 +0000

Possibly, that's 89 without VAT.

New comment by fonema in "Audio Decomposition – open-source seperation of music to constituent instruments"

fonema — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 07:21:30 +0000

I'm a long-time fan of Ultrastar Deluxe, which is an open-source clone of Singstar. This is a karaoke game where people compete by singing along to the tune. It recognizes the notes you are singing and compares them to a vocals-timings mapping file for that particular song. The better you sing to the tune (getting the words correct doesn't matter), the higher your score.

While there are extensive libraries of fan-made song mappings, it's never enough, and there are very few mapped songs in languages other than English or Spanish (if you or your friends prefer your native language). Doing the entire mapping manually is time-consuming, not to mention that I am almost tone-deaf myself, which would make it even more difficult. I have been wondering for a long time what software I could use to make this process easier to automate. This seems like a great tool for capturing vocal timings and notes from original songs.

I have it on my bucket list to create a Singstar playlist in my native language and host a singing party with friends.

Does anyone have suggestions for other similar tools?