Notices by ty (tychi@merveilles.town)

@zens i can see that as a potential needed to be implemented to get top label producers on board with itunes— it’d be hard to take a music platform seriously that couldn’t cater to the *philes

@zens yeah, transcoding and ffmpeg are entirely new to me.

for workaround, would it be possible to run an old mac as a server and make a request to it from the pi to do the transcoding or would that defeat the intention of the pi?

@zens looking at ffmpeg again

libopus

that looks like the default is 96kbps, which might get you the quality without the hacks

i found that on this page by looking for 96kbps to do a reverse lookup for possible transcoder? codec? what’s the technical term of the thing we’re talking about?

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/HighQualityAudio

@zens the audio from my camera doesn’t play on web, so i think i need to convert the audio to aac with ffmpeg

afail ffmpeg is industry standard now so i’m guessing only audiophiles are getting better elsewhere, but that’s flac for audio?

@zens i’ve used abcde in a basic capacity and had good results for the most part, but i’m not familiar with specific transcoding things— would ffmpeg be able to aac?

@gabek it sounds like a joke, but i am very interested in exploring the idea of “clientless” apps. like, there is obviously still a client, but what if you as a backend engineer didn’t need to worry about frontend code at all and could just call a function in your native tongue, like go.

it is a half baked idea, but this file i wrote a few years back is the closest thing i have to exploring it.

https://github.com/tylerchilds/tag/blob/main/examples/todo-list/index.html

the gist, i broke out client features atomically and then composed scope.

@gabek move fast and just call dibs ?

i’m making an optimization decision this morning.

the rain is falling hard.

i’m on a conference campground. my room is about 100 yards from the meeting space. the dining hall is another 100 yards beyond that.

i packed no rain gear.

i don’t particularly need breakfast, so i’ll sprint 100 yards and spare myself the extra 200 yards of drench.

i also overslept, so that’s technically a coffee in my book.