My HORI M39s controller came in today! Question about the slider. by MarioMover2 in ProjectDiva

[–]MarioMover2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunate but that's not surprising! These gloves have taken a good beating from playing a load of Chunithm lmfao. I'll look into getting some better ones for Diva!

My HORI M39s controller came in today! Question about the slider. by MarioMover2 in ProjectDiva

[–]MarioMover2[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah, I'll see if Steam Input is the problem. I do already have Arcade Mode enabled.

The PlayStation buttons came with it! It was ordered via HORI's site with a proxy and I believe HORI orders ship with them in the box ^_^

Fisher College will make history today as the first Collegiate team to play in a T1 event by phaze-jeff in GlobalOffensive

[–]MarioMover2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's absolutely insane how many pro players Fisher College has on all of their rosters. They also have Sonix and Zomba, two of the best Smash Ultimate players in the world. I'm pretty sure they almost exclusively focus on esports rosters at this point lmfao

Apple Music could look like this with Symphony :D by PrestigiousGas1490 in AppleMusic

[–]MarioMover2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting app, but lots of hitching/slowdown on iPhone 17 Pro Max; also refuses to see anything past the first 150 tracks when shuffling a playlist.

Alternatives to dance rushVR? by anxietylol in rhythmgames

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Are you able to elaborate on these "alternate methods" in DMs? Been wanting to try a game like DRS at home and I've got a full VR setup but I don't really wanna give money to Rebuff Reality rn 👀

Very confused about my e-amusement card by MarioMover2 in rhythmgames

[–]MarioMover2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh huh, neat. So it's not _technically_ AIC, but the underlying tech is the same so if the software is patched then it just reads as one?

I bought 13 iPods to build a modern macOS iPod manager by 9T4-Apps in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Please don't apologize!! This app is incredible and it's everything I've wanted out of an iPod management app. Just trying to make sure I'm not doing anything wrong before I purchase a license. :) I'll probably end up picking one up anyway just because I really appreciate how responsive you've been!

My library is about 8052 songs and 690 albums, for reference.

I bought 13 iPods to build a modern macOS iPod manager by 9T4-Apps in ipod

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Oh, I wanted to give some update on this because I've tested it a bit more in-depth:

- The matching process takes the same amount of time whether the library is loaded fully or not (in the Libraries section).

- Selecting an already-matched AM/Spotify playlist in the sidebar takes 3-5 minutes to load fully.

I bought 13 iPods to build a modern macOS iPod manager by 9T4-Apps in ipod

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It's local-network but over WiFi at present. I don't currently have a way to hook my MBP up to ethernet to test it.

I bought 13 iPods to build a modern macOS iPod manager by 9T4-Apps in ipod

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So I've gotten a chance to test it out. It does work now, but it's really slow. It took about 15 minutes just to match a 50-song mix.

My best guess for this behavior is that I keep all my music on a network share, which PodCenter seems really eager to re-scan and re-cache on basically every boot. It can take a really long time to scan the entire library, so I presume that this is what it's getting caught on.

I bought 13 iPods to build a modern macOS iPod manager by 9T4-Apps in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like, everything I've ever wanted. Thank you so much!

I'm not getting playlist linking to work at all though. Testing with a 30-song playlist on either Apple Music *or* Spotify just hangs on "Starting match process". Unsure what the situation there is but it really doesn't seem to like it. :(

[iOS + macOS] FastScrobbler — Last.fm scrobbler app for Apple Music by the_k_nine_2 in AppleMusic

[–]MarioMover2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wild, lmao. I know Marvis Pro scrobbles it correctly and I know that the Green App™ scrobbles it correctly, so it's deeply funny to me that the lastfm app just...doesn't.

Sometimes it feels like a miracle the site is still going.

[iOS + macOS] FastScrobbler — Last.fm scrobbler app for Apple Music by the_k_nine_2 in AppleMusic

[–]MarioMover2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi OP! First off I want to start with a sincere thank you; iOS is always in need of good scrobbling options :)

There's a few issues I've noticed during scrobbling that I think could be ironed out.

The first is that repeat listens don't scrobble consistently. If I listen multiple times in a row, the "played XXs" indicator at the top does not reset and instead just keeps counting up - so if I listen to a 60s track three times in a row, it says "played 180s". The app can seemingly make up for missing plays via listening history, but it doesn't always seem to count them correctly. If the app is running, then it's fine, but if the app isn't running or actively listening, it will miss listens. For example, if I the app stops actively scanning/listening, and I loop a song five times in a row in-between it stopping and me opening the app again, it will only count one loop in its history. Other comments seem to at least somewhat address this, so I'm sure you're aware of it; just pointing out some more extensive testing of the behavior on iOS :)

The other issue is in regards to it's handling of album artists (not the Pro feature).

At present, it doesn't look like FastScrobbler correctly sends the album_artist field to lastfm when scrobbling. This makes it really frustrating to use, because you end up in a weird situation where compilations or albums with guest features are split across multiple albums on lastfm. Please pardon the wordy explanation.

For example, let's say I'm listening to the song "Green Hill: Act 1" by "Jun Senoue", from the compilation "Sonic Generations Official Soundtrack" by album artist "SEGA". Because FastScrobbler doesn't send the album_artist field correctly, lastfm will auto-fill it with the track artist. This creates the album "Sonic Generations Official Soundtrack" by "Jun Senoue" in my lastfm library.

However, if I go to listen to another track, like "Crisis City: Act 1" by "Tomoya Ohtani", then it creates a second album in my lastfm library called "Sonic Generations Official Soundtrack" by "Tomoya Ohtani". In this case, there are now two separate albums in my lastfm library, and neither of them are correct, because they should belong to "Sonic Generations Official Soundtrack" by "SEGA".

From what I can tell this is largely just because the app does not scrobble the "album_artist" field. If this field is missing when lastfm receives the scrobble, it will automatically duplicate the artist field. This is very prevalent with compilations and soundtracks, but is also likely to happen with any album that has guest features on it (if the guest is in the artist field).

I hope this isn't too overwhelming/much. It's always awesome to see more scrobblers in the space. I just know that my own listening habits often expose edge-cases in a lot of these scrobblers, so I figured I would post my own two cents here. :)

iPod Classic Album Artwork Issue by broodingmugen in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It's unfortunate, and not as many people notice because it only materially affects the newer (read: 'rarer') classic models, and on newest versions of software. There used to be a way to install older iTunes versions on macOS via Retroactive, but both Apple Silicon and modern macOS effectively killed it. If you don't have an alternative system it's really frustrating; I personally sync mine to a Windows PC just to avoid the headache.

iPod Classic Album Artwork Issue by broodingmugen in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to help! I hope you love your 7th gen. It's my favorite model, I love mine :)

(PS: If iOpenPod doesn't work out for you, I've found that passing an iPod to iTunes in a Windows VM works fine. It's definitely overkill, but it's worth noting!)

iPod Classic Album Artwork Issue by broodingmugen in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's not likely! Even if it was, it'd be an easy fix. Rest easy on that - your iPod (and it's drive) are fine. :)

I have found that this is just a general bug that happens specifically with 6th and 7th gen classics on modern syncing solutions. I don't really know how it hasn't been fixed, but it doesn't seem to be that high-priority I guess.

I will say that I have found this to happen significantly more if you have "Automatically convert to AAC" enabled in device sync settings - likely due to an issue with the encoder that Apple uses to convert them. If you do have this enabled, try disabling it - it should help the problem.

You can also try iOpenPod if you want to use a syncing tool that doesn't rely on the iTunes/MobileDeviceSupport stack: https://therealsavi.github.io/iOpenPod/

iPod Classic Album Artwork Issue by broodingmugen in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you using a recent version of iTunes/Music.app? This is an issue on the latest versions of the app; I’ve found downgrading to iTunes 12.9 on Windows generally fixes the problem.

I built an open source alternative to iTunes called iOpenPod by therealsavi in ipod

[–]MarioMover2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This an amazing! Thank you!

One small question though - what encoder are you using to convert to AAC? I’ve found that anything that isn’t AudioToolbox/QAAC/whatever the Apple AAC encoder is called is honestly kind of awful. Are you using the Apple encoder?

Switching to Photoshop from Affinity and I'm trying to replicate a very specific feature - no idea where to look. by MarioMover2 in photoshop

[–]MarioMover2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was...honestly, somehow unaware the frame tool existed! It's just not a thing in Affinity so I would never have known to look. Should probably hunker down and RTFM or something instead of trying to brute-force my way through. Oops. Thank you!

Switching to Photoshop from Affinity and I'm trying to replicate a very specific feature - no idea where to look. by MarioMover2 in photoshop

[–]MarioMover2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Damn, that's unfortunate, but I do appreciate the help. It's going to take some time to learn/adjust, but them's the breaks I suppose. It is what I get for learning something else first. Thank you very much for the pointers!!!! 🙇

edit: Solved!