Notices by alina cyborg mouse :neomouse_cyborg: (https://corteximplant.com/@0)

@igwigg "zu doof zum knuddeln" wäre ein ziemlich gutes shirt @puniko

@puniko sweaty pipelines in your area ...

modern processes: ugh it is so hard to live in 6gb of ram! ... oh sweet something else just closed. ugh it is so hard to live in 7gb of ram. aaaa why am I offline???
proceeds to lag at 20% cpu while idle

what modern processes should be: so this is my ram cache, and here is my source of truth on the storage. I only render when I need to. this? that's a text based user interface. yeah it displays pictures and has icons, why do you ask? sure, a gig of ram is plenty. actually I only need a fifth of that, and spare me a couple percent of cpu later ok?
snappy interface, works offline

this is a post about music players

ok yeah nice, mouse player doesn't break on CJK characters :neomouse_cyborg_glare:

go listen to the original ghost in the shell soundtrack

@puniko not yet because this is for a library that is meant to sync to Poweramp and to an iPod with Rockbox.

But that gave mouse the idea to give it capabilities for making copies of playlists with tracked music where the tracks are auto-encoded to mp3 for syncing to those other players

@puniko there's a lot of virt strewn about this music library, and a lot of other good video game and also demoscene music. if I get around to implementing the playlist management functions I want I'd definitely collect all of those in a new playlist

I need help with syncing playlists between devices.

I have music in UTF-8 paths and filenames, as well as playlist files that reference these paths.

Three devices that can and should modify the playlists directly are being synced with each other: iPod using Rockbox, Android using Poweramp, Linux using mpd plus an mpd client.

Now, here comes the tricky to reconcile part:
Rockbox and Poweramp can see and write m3u and m3u8 but only reliably treat m3u8 as UTF-8. mpd can't see m3u8 playlists and only accepts m3u or pls, but it will treat m3u as UTF-8.

Nextcloud, which syncs the files between two Linux machines (mpd) and the phone (Poweramp) does not sync symlinks.

mpd is really spitting in the soup here and I'm not sure what to do. Is there maybe a way to transparently show m3u8 files as virtual m3u files on the linux machines only via some sort of service, so mpd can just see and use them without making the other players not treat the playlists as unicode anymore?

I'm so close to just writing my own audio player and ditch established options

welp. it's happening

mouse player can now read playlist files and tags :3 (please don't break on CJK characters)
the auto playlists do nothing so far

@puniko @igwigg the tricky part will be coming up with good compression for the 6k+ frames

@puniko @igwigg people at the party didn't believe it was real. they thought we somehow loaded an animated gif onto the watch with a 256k bundle size limit. one of the team loaded the demo onto his own watch before he believed us :neomouse_cyborg_laugh_sweat:

@puniko they did! the release versions are smoother in parts, but yeah party versions are the real versions :3

@puniko in case that one is interested, mouse has made first and second place in evoke wild compos https://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=2519

@puniko it was psycle compo 4, sadly not at a party https://psycle.fandom.com/wiki/Compo4

mouse has won cooler compos at revoke though :3

my bad, it was 2023 and the song file was 76K

everything in it is synthesized live, there isn't a single sample in it

who's interested in some demo scene stuff? mouse tracked this in january of 2004 in psycle and won a compo with it

which language did you write your first ever infinite loop in?

@igwigg it was pascal for me