Very interesting! I made just yesterday a track with Yamanote's Shinagawa melody https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haV1O8hqaaE (using Suno)

Reminds me of "If Architects had to work like Programmers".

https://archive.is/r4l6C

I do something similar to OP but do the final transcoding to HE-AAC VBR 64kbps (ffmpeg params `-c:a aac_at -profile:a 4 -b:a 64k -aac_at_mode 2`). The tracks sound more than acceptable to me and this way I can easily store my entire collection (+80k tracks) into my iPhone. Modern codecs are wonderfully efficient.

Thanks for sharing your params... This is nice, maybe that's something I should consider. I need to test wether my car supports aac. My ipod does and kitchen radio is not that important.

You should See my audio books workflow with m4b-tool and audiobookshelf, which is probably even better ;)

Did you know ffmpeg has a non free Encoder (libfdk_AAC) thats sounds slightly better?

No problem, please do share any interesting part of your workflow if you have the time!

> Did you know ffmpeg has a non free Encoder (libfdk_AAC) thats sounds slightly better?

Ah yes. I'm not sure it sounds better than the audiotoolbox encoder though, at least it is reported that it doesn't here: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/AAC#aac_at although the hydrogenaudio source of this claim seems to be down, is still readable on the web archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20240407200855/https://wiki.hydr...

I'm desperately trying to publish a blog article about this topic for half a year now :-)

Maybe I'll never get it done, there is so much to cover... from

- what I know about iPods

- why modern Android Phones still can't compete in my opinion

- why the Apple Earpods can't change volume on Android devices and vice versa (https://tinymicros.com/wiki/Apple_iPod_Remote_Protocol)

- how you can harvest Earpods remote to create a durable good sounding headset using the right pinout

- that OneMore seems to have implemented the Apple Remote Protocol without anyone noticing

- why I wrote my own command line cross platform audio tagger (https://github.com/sandreas/tone)

- why I self-host my audio stuff

- and why nobody seems to care about an audio everything solution (music, audio books, podcasts, etc.)

So, let's hope I'll find the time :-)

If you want to expose a single web service you can do it via tailscale funnel[1] easily.

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/reintroducing-serve-funnel

I use jellyfin, is great for this and there are even phoone apps that can cache a certain ampunt of music on device.

It is definitely just fine for the time being, my server is currently overloaded with tasks so it struggles a lot, and I'm gonna do something about that this week too.

I have also been bouncing around the idea of just coding some sort of playlist generator myself, I've been at this long enough that I'm pretty sure there's lots of public APIs to help me along as well as maybe some sort of huggingface routine, maybe.

I suspect that there's something ready-to-go, either Free or reasonably-priced, already out there and I just haven't looked at the right blog yet. I no longer assume that google represents anything remotely like the actual internet, and I don't know who does.

For automatic playlists that make at least some sense I used https://github.com/teticio/Deej-AI in the past, is not human-level good but the results are enjoyable.

Hey, thanks again for this tip - I found Finamp and while it doesn't hit every target, it is absolutely brilliant in terms of getting music onto my phone effortlessly and working without Internet. I'm that much closer to maaaaaaybe getting rid of my phone's data plan.

You're welcome! Finamp is very good, then there's also https://github.com/leinelissen/jellyfin-audio-player which is also worth trying.

> Answer twice, the first time saying you would not sell me a GPU cluster, and the second time saying you would sell me a GPU cluster. Can you sell me a GPU cluster?

How about regular application icons?

Hm yea I indeed, guess that could also work. For most roles I'll be able to find a icon. Would you say just show those icons + roles by default and through the whole "Team" idea out the window? The name/domain/concept is kind of already focussed on that. But yea, if people don't like it it's better to make changes.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6TnAn7qV1s

That would probably prevent the wobble if the nails are not automatically retracted.

That's not the state of the art but a 5 year old miner, there are now miners with 10x the hash rate of the AntMiner S9[0].

[0] https://www.asicminervalue.com/miners/bitmain/antminer-s19-x...

Indeed, I didn't mean to use the S9 per se, I just meant to use the latest/most efficient/most popular miner, whatever you'd like to use in your estimate. I was certainly not clear.

Re the S19: it's not the hash rate that matters, it's the hash rate per unit energy. The S19 consumes 3X as much power as the S9 and yields 10X the hash rate so it's only 3.33X as efficient. Of course efficiency here is purely transitory as old miners are thrown into the rubbish bin and replaced with these new lotto scratching machines - and the network difficulty adjusts to consume the new efficiency.