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Fixing the ListenBrainz Jellyfin Plugin to work with multiple artists.

Fixing the ListenBrainz Jellyfin Plugin to work with multiple artists.

Hi everyone, This week, I installed the ListenBrainz and Last.FM plugins to my local Jellyfin server, where I have my Music CDs ripped and listen to them using the Finamp Android app. It seems that the Last.FM plugin is working well, but I noticed that the ListenBrainz plugin had a problem. Whenever I listened to songs with multiple artists, those would not be submitted nor would be shown as “Now Playing”. So, I took some time to find out the…

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Releasing flac_recompressor Python Script

Releasing flac_recompressor Python Script

Hi everyone, In the past few days, I’ve been working on a script that will attempt to get the smallest FLAC file size possible. I’ve been playing around several FLAC encoder options and determined that by changing the block size, it is possible to get a smaller file size. However, it seems that depending on the audio file, we may need to use try different block size combination in order to get the smallest size, and this is what this…

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Adding Proper Audio Support for the HP Stream 8 tablet in the Linux Kernel – My first contribution to the Linux Kernel

Adding Proper Audio Support for the HP Stream 8 tablet in the Linux Kernel – My first contribution to the Linux Kernel

Hi everyone, For several years already, I have owned an HP Stream 7 and HP Stream 8 tablets. These were low budget, Windows 8 tablets powered by an Intel Atom Z3735G Bay Trail processor and having only 1GB of RAM. These tablets are also limited to running the 32bit version of Windows not only because of the extremely low RAM amount by today’s standards, but also because the BIOS only runs 32-bit EFI images. This tablet can be upgraded to…

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Releasing ResultsForm, a .NET 6 Component to display Output and Results log

Releasing ResultsForm, a .NET 6 Component to display Output and Results log

Hi everyone, Today, I am releasing ResultsForm. This is my first .NET 6 project. ResultsForm is a .NET 6 Windows Forms class that you can use to pass a List(Of String) object to show your software output or results in a nice, simple form. It can save its output as a log file and the form can be customized. To use this form, you can simply call it like this in VB.NET This will have the following output: You can…

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Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15.2 has been released!

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15.2 has been released!

Hi everyone, Today, I have released Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15.2: This version has the following changes: Changed “Uploads Finished” text to “Queue Items Processed!” as the queue can be either upload or download items. Updated Google APIs. You can download it on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 8

Introducing HEIC To JPG Converter

Introducing HEIC To JPG Converter

Hi everyone, Today, I’m pleased to announce the first version of my HEIC To JPG Converter tool. This is a simple tool that will convert your HEIC images and photos to the more common and supported JPEG format. In today’s world, newer phones can take advantage of the HEIC image codec that will save you space, theatrically, but it’s also true that JPEG is still the dominant format whereas HEIC still have limited support. This is why I wrote this…

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Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15 has been released!

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15 has been released!

Hi everyone, Today, I have released Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.15: This version has the following changes: Can now add items to download to the Queue. Right click and select “Add to Queue” or press CTRL + Q. Fixed download bug introduced in v1.14. “Send to Trash” added to the right-click menu. Updated Google APIs. You can download it on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 3

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.14 has been released!

Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.14 has been released!

Hi everyone, Today, I have released Google Drive Uploader & Explorer Tool v1.14: This version has the following changes: Added an Open button to go directly to a Folder ID. Can now copy the folder name by clicking it. Can now stop uploads. Bug fixes. Updated Google APIs. You can download it on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 3

rav1e GUI v1.17 released!

rav1e GUI v1.17 released!

Hi everyone, Today, I have released rav1e GUI v1.17: This new version will encode files without producing huge .y4m temporary files. It also disables 2-pass encoding in quantizer mode, which is not supported by rav1e. You can use 2-pass encoding in bitrate mode. You can download this new release on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 10