dangravell's comments

On: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

[dangravell]

Not only do A&A offer good speeds, their customer service is exceptional. There are chat rooms on which engineers and enthusiasts reside and if you phone them you get an engineer.

On: Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires

[dangravell]

Is there a way of testing two points to see if they can communicate with each other before I go to the trouble of wiring to a rj45 endpoint?

I'm not convinced socket A can talk to socket B when, for example, socket B is in an extension, or... or...

[jimnotgym → dangravell]

Short two wires on one end, go to the other end with a multimeter and test for continuity between those two wires on your lowest resistance range. If it is infinity then no connection. If it is some low number then there is a connection

[dangravell → jimnotgym]

Fantastic - thanks!

On: Meko – A High-Performance E-Ink Bluetooth Music Player with Tactile Controls

[dangravell]

As a complete hardware newbie, how would I go about starting creating the PCB? You have something codified for the case, but not the circuitry.

[koeg → dangravell]

Are you referring to this project specifically, or in general, how to create a PCB? If you want to create this project, you would need to download my exports in GitHub releases and send them off to a fab house, like JLCPCB. If in want to create a PCB in general, it's more similar to a connect the dots game, I used KiCad for this project

On: Offline Music, and MP3s and/or FLACs

[dangravell]

OP could use something like mp3fs to make the transition from MP3 to FLAC less painful where MP3s are still required - it's a lazy mirror of a FLAC collection to MP3.

On: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

[dangravell]

(Disclaimer: this relates to the commercial project I run, but it is directly answering the parent)

It's not self hosted, more a middle-ground between rented Spotify and self hosted data sovereignty, but this is what we do at https://asti.ga . You store your music in some Internet-accessible storage, such as any S3 compatible endpoint, and Astiga connects and streams your library (and provides offline etc etc). AMA.

[toomuchtodo → dangravell]

Very relevant to my interest, thank you for posting, I wouldn't have found you otherwise.

On: Show HN: A Digital CD Shelf as the UI for Music Streaming Libraries

[dangravell]

You could get images from multiple perspectives from the Cover Art Archive (via MusicBrainz). E.g. https://musicbrainz.org/release/a4f190d5-c752-4ebd-8d2f-925a... . It would be very cool if the spine could be rendered, although it's not always split from the back image (I guess because of the post processing after scanning).

On: Self hosted FLOSS fitness/workout tracker

[dangravell]

Yes - and/or data sovereignty.

On: Humans have caused 1.5 °C of long-term global warming according to new estimates

[dangravell]

The tragedy of of this is that these are improvements that would actually improve life in these houses - making them healthier, more comfortable. Trouble is, retrofit is expensive.

On: I Don't Have Spotify

[dangravell]

Yes, downloading is important as even download sites can redact later - e.g. https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic/70250-qobuz-may-be-...

Another source are good ol' CDs. If you know where to look you can get them cheap too. Specialist charity shops that specialise in records and CDs in student or wealthy areas are good, as are second hand stores online.

An alternative to self hosting is to use an online music locker. I wrote up a bunch here: https://www.blisshq.com/music-library-management-blog/2021/0... and (disclaimer) operate one myself: https://asti.ga

[wyclif → dangravell]

Where's the best place to buy CDs online now?

[wmeredith → wyclif]

Discogs is pretty great for buying CDs: https://www.discogs.com/

On: Ask HN: Would requiring musicians to release only singles improve music quality?

[dangravell]

There's an assumption here that the first class concept is the song. Maybe it's the album?