Yeah that’s true. But once metadata is cached, it takes like a minute to scan my entire library!

Couldn’t agree more! Although I always wish the barrier for entry to be lower for self-hosting.

I’ve been running Navidrome + Symfonium for over 3 years and it replaced Spotify. The only thing they have over my setup is a near infinite number of playlists. But I do everything myself now, I’ve reconnected with my music.

My main issue with Spotify was no lossless audio at the time, and many tracks weren’t on there, if they were they had a habit of disappearing. Now I can listen to any track, remix, bootleg, and even the 1700+ tracks my friend digitised from his vinyl collection until perpetuity.

Symfonium, btw, is truly the best music streaming app, the customizability is beyond anything I’ve seen

Third party apps made Reddit a dream on mobile, a big part of its success were the passionate people. And they showed us all the middle finger

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adjusts glasses and knees pop

Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a 4 digit account?

Looked into going to the closest one near me, at €32 per ticket every showing was sold out for at least a week. But I’ve never had the full IMAX experience before.

I think I’d be willing to pay double the regular ticket price to try it out for once but full theaters can be a genuine dealbreaker.

Also be careful storing powerbanks at full charge, charge them at 80% or ideally around half for maximum longevity

Not much actually, normal line out levels. Definitely cooked the mic though! The sound was like if you dropped earbuds at half volume, you heard just enough to know something is there

No worries! I did blow out a microphone this way, plugged it in an out- instead of an input and only realised my mistake when I heard faint music through the microphone

Thats the sidenote on my previous comment!

You’re welcome! As long as the cone is in its rest position there’s no energy so no current which means (according to Ohms law) that the amplifier at this point is acting as an infinite resistor.

Sound is then created by continuously moving between the -12v and +12v, if you connect just +12v to a speaker the cone will just stick out once and remain there, not much of a sound is it. Sound is a complicated alternating waveform.

Sidenote: this is a physicists rabbithole, magnets moving around in coiled windings will create its own electrical signal. So if you talk into any speaker you can make it act as a microphone and record. So be careful with oversimplifications!

I don’t think anyone referenced audio applications yet, the concept might be easier to grasp if you visualise it with a speaker.

Sound is just a particular way of moving the air, so a speaker at rest is just a cone sitting in the middle of an electromagnet, not protruding, just resting ready to be pushed out or pulled in according to the desired sound, this is the ‘rest’ state, or 0v.

Amplifiers are provided with a positive voltage to be able to pull the speaker cone one way, and a negative to push out the other way, with a reference (or ‘rest’) in the middle. This voltage, often +12v 0v -12v, is provided be a transformer that has been tapped in the middle. But if you use measure accross the tranformer, you will measure +24v, because that’s the total voltage potential of the circuit.

If you switch your measuring probes the other way around you’ll see -24v on your meter, did anything fundamentally change when you measured the other way around? No! It’s just your reference point that changed.