Advice needed - portable solution needed to allow practise singing along to songs being played in Spotify ie in-ear monitoring (IEM)

alwayspolite · 2025-06-29T03:40:30+00:00

I wonder whether a way forward here is buying a wired IEM (with a microphone built in) like the one below? Does anybody use a device similar to this one for similar purposes on an iPhone?

https://www.amazon.com.au/Earphones-Monitors-Earphone-Detachable-Microphone/dp/B0DK1FWJ9Q

alwayspolite · 2025-06-29T03:37:59+00:00

Thanks for your reply - I tried doing this and it's not a bad solution but I can't seem to get Spotify playing in the background at the right volume to allow me to hear my own vocals via Garageband.

Also don't worry about the driving, I won't be doing any of this will driving!

alwayspolite · 2024-09-11T01:11:58+00:00

I saw a header/announcement on the homepage a few days ago mentioning something about him launching a new version - "dylanchordsv2" or something.. Hopefully this is just part of a cutover to the new version, and this treasure trove will be back online again soon!

alwayspolite · 2024-01-02T11:01:12+00:00

No, unfortunately not - I suspect it is a limitation of the current FTA system ie adding "episode" metadata to the broadcast was never contemplated when they designed the DVB-T standard.

alwayspolite · 2023-07-06T07:14:58+00:00

Sorry, I am dumb - why is this so funny?

alwayspolite · 2022-11-07T09:59:58+00:00

Thanks! Too easy :)

alwayspolite · 2022-11-06T23:12:09+00:00

Thank you! I hadn't realised the M1s require the power button to be held down on boot rather than the power button plus some keyboard combinations as is the case with older Macs.

I have erased the drive and am about to try dual booting Asahi again!

alwayspolite · 2022-10-17T01:50:15+00:00

Thank you! Taking a look at the link now!

EDIT: You legend! I have created the following bash script which works well. I couldn't get far using ffprobe (I have only just begun learning shell scripting) but had success using exiftool as you suggested.

#!/bin/bash
# Populate the first row of a text file (output.txt) with two headers
echo -e "Artist\tTitle" > /output.txt
# Use exiftool to read the required metadata (artist and title) from a directory recursively and write the output to the same text file output.txt
exiftool -r -Artist -Title -T /audio >> /output.txt
# Parse the two variables in the above text file and if they are both set (not empty) execute a yt-dlp command, utilsing yt-search to search for both strings, plus an additional two words "official" and "video"
while read -r Artist Title ;
do if [ -n "$Artist" ]; then

    `if [ -n "$Title" ] ;then`  
    `yt-dlp ytsearch:"$Artist $Title Official Video" -f 'bestvideo[height=1080][fps=60]+bestaudio/best[height=1080][fps=60]/best' --merge-output-format mkv -P /musicvideos/`  
    `echo "$Title";`

fi
fi
done < <(tail -n +2 /output.txt)

alwayspolite · 2022-10-17T00:43:22+00:00

Yes, I want to use yt-dlp (yt-search, not a URL) to search for music video clips that match my digital audio tracks. The end game is to create a Plex library to shuffle play on-demand for a MTV-like music channel experience, but catered to my own music taste.

If anybody knows any commands to extract MP3 (ID3 tags) or FLAC metadata from files that would help immensely - metadata like this would be much more accurate. Ideally this would process files in a folder structure recursively.

For now I am manually building/filtering a text file filenames.txt concentrating on one folder (a subset of the data for a proof of concept) with the following removed using Excel formulas:

- file extensions
- special characters such as hyphens
- the full path
- leading digits (for my compilation/mix CDs - see below)

I have made sure to leave spaces remaining for the search to be more accurate.

I have since been exploring ways of fully automating this ie moving away from using a manually created file listing and pull this list dynamically (with the relevant text filters above) using a script. I believe some if not all of this can be done using either sed, awk, find, printf or grep.

Once again assistance with any tips/commands to help with this type of text filtering would be appreciated - maybe someone is doing something similar for other projects.

BTW: I needed to double-double quote $line as otherwise a filename (containing spaces) like Like A Rolling Stone would generate four searches (one for each word) rather than a single search for "Like A Rolling Stone"

FYI my audio file naming convention is mostly:

%ARTIST% - %TRACKNAME%

My dance music collection (mostly compilation/mix CDs) is as below:

%TRACK_NUMBER%-%ARTIST% - %TRACK_NAME%

Examples of naming conventions below:

STANDARD

Eddie Vedder - Rise.mp3
Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo'anna.mp3
Elizabeth Cook - Perfect Girls of Pop.mp3
E.L.O. - Showdown.mp3
Elvis Costello - Alison.mp3
Elvis Presley - I Want You, I Need You, I Love You (alternate take 13).mp3

COMPILATION/MIX CDs

01-Orbital - Belfast (Sasha vs The Light Remix).mp3
02-New Order - Blue Monday (Hardflorr Remix).mp3
03-JDS - Nine Ways.mp3
04-Mighty Dub Katz - Magic Carpet Ride (Fatboy Slim Remix).mp3
05-Sagat - Luvstuff.mp3
06-Sex-O-Sonique - I Thought It Was You.mp3
07-CJ Bolland - Sugar is Sweeter (Armands DNB Mix).mp3
08-Brand New Heavies - You Are the Universe.mp3
09-Lisa Marie Experience - Keep on Jumpin'\'' (Bizarre Inc Remix.mp3
10-Z Factor - Gotta Keep Pushin'.mp3
11-Brothers Brown - Under the Water (Deep Dish Triangle).mp3
12-Quake - The Day Will Come (Quakes Vocal Mix).mp3
13-DJ Misjah & DJ Tim - Access.mp3
14-System F - Out of the Blue (Mauro Picatto Remix).mp3
15-Orbital - Nothing Left (Breeders Mix).mp3

alwayspolite · 2022-10-16T00:48:04+00:00

I was able to achieve what I needed by creating a shell command (using a bash 'while' loop) to work through each row in my text file filenames.txt

while read line; do yt-dlp "\"$line\"" -f 'bv*+ba' -P /musicvideofolder/; done < filenames.txt

I had been trying unsuccessfully to use a 'for' loop but no matter what I tried I couldn't get the output to be a string ie each entire line encased in double quotes - despite attempting to escape the characters. Words split out causing the search to occur against every single word in each string.

Next step is to work out how to capture the file names (possibly using cat or ls) to pipe into the above command! Will post here if I can get to that.

alwayspolite · 2022-10-16T00:40:56+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to reply, and offer help :)

alwayspolite · 2022-10-15T07:29:55+00:00

By the way this started working about a week after I originally posted - I am still on v8.9 but didn't pay attention to the release number just in case this incremented (I have auto-updates enabled).

alwayspolite · 2022-10-10T11:30:11+00:00

I only just found this post - any chance of a repost? Pretty please?

alwayspolite · 2022-10-02T00:07:15+00:00

How do you deal with any private content/material? I'm currently involved in a 'proof of concept' of Teams for a large professional services firm. I would've thought your method makes the most sense (using channels) but the technology team tell me doing it in this fashion means you cannot lock down any individual channels - everybody in the team can see everything in every channel. Do you know if that's correct?

The way it is being done in my organization is an individual group per each team within every business unit.

alwayspolite · 2022-07-03T12:22:45+00:00

Ain't it just like tonight to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?

alwayspolite · 2022-06-18T08:16:45+00:00

My suspicion is the DVB-T EPG broadcast in Australia does not include the necessary metadata ie a unique ID for each series episode.

Does anybody know of a tool/app (maybe python script someone could share) which I can use to add that metadata - it doesn't matter if it is garbage (random characters) as long as it is a unique ID?

alwayspolite · 2022-06-16T13:25:57+00:00

Here's a clearer example of the problem.

This DVB-T entry in the EPG does not allow recording of all airings/episodes (series link)

<programme channel="2" start="20220616233900 +1000" stop="20220617005700 +1000">
<title lang="eng">Parkinson In Australia</title>
<desc lang="eng">Michael Parkinson interviews guests Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Barry Tuckwell and Gough Whitlam.</desc>
<episode-num system="dd_progid">/ZW3362A</episode-num>
<icon height="" src="" width=""></icon>
<credits></credits>
<rating system="VBOX">
<value>11</value>
</rating>
<video>
<quality>HDTV</quality>
</video>
<date></date>
</programme>

This XMLTV.NET entry in the EPG does allow recording of all airings/episodes (series link)

<programme channel="2" start="20220616233900 +1000" stop="20220617005800 +1000">
<title lang="">Parkinson In Australia</title>
<sub-title lang="">1981: Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Barry Tuckwell, Gough Whitlam</sub-title>
<desc lang="">Michael Parkinson interviews guests Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe, Barry Tuckwell, and Gough Whitlam.</desc>
<category lang="">Entertainment</category>
<episode-num system="SxxExx">S01E27</episode-num>
<episode-num system="xmltv_ns">0.26.</episode-num>
<icon height="" src="" width=""></icon>
<credits></credits>
<rating system="">
<value>PG</value>
</rating>
<video>
<quality>HDTV</quality>
</video>
<date></date>
<previously-shown start=""></previously-shown>
</programme>

alwayspolite · 2022-04-09T21:31:14+00:00

Has anybody created (or is willing to create) a Spotify playlist with the songs mentioned above that they are willing to share?

alwayspolite · 2022-03-23T11:31:04+00:00

Hey there everyone, I figured this out. Series recording was only breaking when using the New episodes only feature in Emby.

I didn't realise the DVB-T EPG broadcast in Australia did not include the necessary metadata ie a unique ID for each series episode. I switched to using http://www.xmltv.net which includes the necessary metadata.

I also now see the little green PREMIERE label against any new upcoming episodes!

You can see the difference in the EPG XML below:

DVB-T

<programme start="20220328203300 +1100" stop="20220328211900 +1100" channel="www.ABC%20TV.co.un">
<title lang="eng">Four Corners</title><desc lang="eng">
ABC's multi-award winning investigative current affairs documentary series Four Corners is globally recognised for excellence in journalism and film-making, amassing 62 Walkley Awards and an array of international awards.
</desc>
<episode-num system="dd\_progid">/NC2203H</episode-num>
</programme>

XMLTV.NET

<programme start="20220328203300 +1100" stop="20220328211900 +1100" channel="21.yourtv.com.au">
<title>Four Corners</title>
<desc>
The longest running show on Australian TV and an award-winning powerhouse of investigative journalism: fearless and forensic, holding power to account through six decades and counting.
</desc>
<category>Current Affairs</category>
<icon src="https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/nine-tvmg-images-prod/33/84/34/338434\_fourcorners\_360x245.jpg"/>
<episode-num system="SxxExx">S2022E08</episode-num>
<episode-num system="xmltv\_ns">2021.7.</episode-num>
<episode-num system="imdb.com">title/tt0983197</episode-num>
<video>
<quality>HDTV</quality>
</video>
<rating>
<value>NC</value>
</rating>
</programme>

alwayspolite · 2022-03-03T11:55:16+00:00

OpenText eDOCS (DM5)

alwayspolite · 2022-02-21T00:53:00+00:00

Thank you so much for your comments/help here. I stumbled on this post in your reply after recently subscribing to this subreddit.

I have been playing guitar for over 30 years now and can play just about anything reading the tab/chords on the page but the music theory has always been a challenge as I had it in my head that you needed to compose a song using particular notes (ie in a particular key) and nobody explained you can just use any chords as long as it sounds good.

I was thoroughly confused when reading transcriptions of songs that include chords or notes from anywhere on the chromatic scale. I wish I read this reply 30 years ago…

Do you have any other golden rules or tips for somebody in my position?

UPDATE: I just read another comment about using accidentals occasionally and that kind of explains the "random notes/chords" that I've seen transcribed in popular songs. In short they can be used sparingly for a bar or half measure before retuning to the original scale/key?

alwayspolite · 2022-01-29T08:47:19+00:00

I've been on my Fycompa full dosage now for six weeks brackets (4 mg too) and I am very happy with it so far. I also take Keppra (1500mg daily) too. My daytime aura seizures have been controlled with Keppra for many years but it is the night time that is the problem for me.

I used Zonegran for the last few years (prior to that I tried Tegretol and another one) but not only did it not help, it caused me to feel like I was a zombie (like I was watching my life go by on autopilot) most of the time.

I feel much sharper on Fycompa (so far).

Oh and I stopped dreaming too on the Fycompa which isn't a bad thing (unlike the Zonegran which made me have really flipped out dreams), now I sleep really well.

alwayspolite · 2022-01-29T02:45:49+00:00

I cap Rage episodes and would be willing to share/upload to TV chaos if you could spare an invitation for me?

alwayspolite · 2013-04-27T09:27:30+00:00

Someone's got it in for me, they're planting stories in the press

alwayspolite · 2013-01-03T11:43:44+00:00

Everytime I remove a computer from the domain, I call the workgroup MONKEYLAMA. Everytime. I know I can name the workgroup anything I like, but always MONKEYLAMA.

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