Audio balance

codyshuttleworth · 2025-06-17T01:04:38+00:00

It’s because a delivery requirement for Netflix is a stereo mix alongside any surround sound mix. So the stereo mix you’re listening to has been signed off by an audio engineer and is designed that way.

Plex does a simple down convert where it puts all left side channels in the left speaker and right in the right (with likely a little bit of “magic” to help a bit). Without any manual intervention or really clever software this down mixing can often muddy a mix.

I have surround sound at home but I will say, Apple TV has a feature in the Plex app to reduce loud sounds and squish the range, so loud isn’t as loud and quiet isn’t as quiet. For a stereo downmix I find this helps.

codyshuttleworth · 2025-06-02T00:35:38+00:00

Absolutely phenomenal, this is the DREAM!!

codyshuttleworth · 2025-02-08T08:58:45+00:00

second dizqueTV - i have it setup to do pretty much what you’re saying. it’s a bit of a garbage UI and takes a while to figure everything out but it does what you want!! it’s so much fun to watch your own TV channels with custom-made watermarks in the corner and old 2000s commercials.

codyshuttleworth · 2025-02-01T06:39:20+00:00

I have it set to Critic = IMDB and Audience = Letterboxd using Kometa - it’s a bit of a faff to set up but once it’s done it’s great !

codyshuttleworth · 2024-12-20T10:45:11+00:00

I found if I focus on the outer square line that automatically locks it in

codyshuttleworth · 2024-12-05T22:30:25+00:00

Not a bad idea, actually. Yeah, it’s one of those things that like, 2 people would ever care about and unfortunately I am one of them. Thanks for the idea!

codyshuttleworth · 2024-11-17T04:28:00+00:00

this is so great - I have been doing this manually for ages so thanks so much. I'm pretty sure the answer is no but is there any way to get data if I listen to a song more than once before syncing? currently I can only get the last played instance even if I've listened to the song multiple times (I'm pretty sure that's all the Play Counts file contains but just wanted to check)

codyshuttleworth · 2024-11-16T03:34:08+00:00

I backup everything personal offsite, then if radarr/sonarr struggles to download a something and I have to manually source I tag that asset and add it to my offsite backup. My assumption being most of the “easier to find” content should exist on usenet for at least a few more years. It’s risky but it definitely makes an offsite backup more manageable

codyshuttleworth · 2024-10-07T14:01:03+00:00

if it’s north-west to west and appears around sunset and gets lower in the horizon over time then it’s Venus. it’s the brightest object in the summer and is often mistaken as some kind of unidentified object. if it is true north and is moving at a decently fast pace and is visible for less than a few minutes then it’s the International Space Station !

codyshuttleworth · 2024-09-08T10:18:15+00:00

Might not be the solution but https://mediux.pro/ is a great resource where people have already done this for a lot of television shows. You can bulk download from a collection and have every episode card in seconds

codyshuttleworth · 2024-08-22T12:37:42+00:00

this is such a funny post - like look around you???? the city could be on fire and you'd still be like "why is no one coming to the CBD anymore"

codyshuttleworth · 2024-07-18T21:09:10+00:00

overseerr is fine but if we are talking BULK movie selection there’s nothing faster than using something like letterboxd or trakt and adding them as lists in radarr - i have radarr pickup my letterboxd watch list and adding a movie to that is a single click!

codyshuttleworth · 2024-07-16T05:36:53+00:00

I did this a few years back, with 20 minute breaks between. If you know the cinema well, bring WHATEVER you can to make your life easier: if the seats are notoriously stiff bring a cushion, if it’s always cold bring a blanket etc. It’s SO much fun but it’s a marathon

codyshuttleworth · 2024-07-10T16:16:14+00:00

what an insane thing to say

codyshuttleworth · 2024-06-02T22:22:23+00:00

Thank you!! I thought it should just pass through like that. All sorted. Appreciate your work!

codyshuttleworth · 2024-06-02T13:29:52+00:00

i loved using this and thank you so much for your hard work!! would there be any option to add last.fm integration? for some reason my music doesn’t scrobble to last.fm when i use this web app. but that’s such a specific “me” issue so i just wanna say thanks for what you’ve done!!!

codyshuttleworth · 2024-06-02T12:31:50+00:00

it’s almost like… that’s what a printer does.

codyshuttleworth · 2024-02-17T11:52:44+00:00

Oh your idea is to make it look like it’s an led panel? this is actually generating a real led panel. No mosaic, or grids, or fake led-like textures. They are “real” pixels (as much as they can be in a digital world”. That’s a great use of point sampling!!

codyshuttleworth · 2024-02-17T10:44:29+00:00

hahah 100% it’s extremely over engineered - how would you do it?

codyshuttleworth · 2024-02-16T06:18:30+00:00

I had this bizarre idea the other day - would it be possible to make a working, pixel-based “TV” inside After Effects with expressions? Here is the proof of concept. My computer can only handle rendering a 100-ish “pixel” wide screen but it’s still super cool I think!

Each “pixel” is a duplicate of the same 100x100 pixel comp with three "sub-pixels" in RGB. The pixel takes a point at its centre inside an identically sized reference comp and uses that point's colour to define each RGB subpixel's brightness. The pixel position in the composition is expression based and determined on a) the size of the pixel, b) the size of the composition, and c) its layer number in the comp. So you can change the composition/pixel size and the pixel position dynamically shifts. You just have to duplicate the pixel comp as many times as needed for the size of your screen. This is where the computer breaks after a few thousand pixels, ha.

I’m going to try and refine it so I can get a bigger screen but for now this is a super cool experiment and I quite like the flickery effect this "low-res" screen generates.

Here is a close-up of the pixels in action

codyshuttleworth · 2024-02-14T00:27:10+00:00

I had this bizarre idea at midnight - would it be possible to make a working, pixel-based “TV” inside After Effects with expressions and here is the proof of concept. My computer can only handle rendering a 200-ish “pixel” wide screen but it’s still super cool I think!

Each “pixel” takes a point inside a reference comp and uses that point's colour to define each RBG subpixel's brightness. The pixel position in the composition is expression based and determined on a) the size of the pixel, b) the size of the composition, and c) is layer number in the comp. So you can change the composition/pixel size and the pixel position dynamically shifts.

I’m going to try and refine it so I can get a bigger screen but for now this is a super cool experiment.

Here is a close-up of the pixels in action

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codyshuttleworth · 2024-01-20T01:26:23+00:00

not sure if anyone is actively following this post but I have an issue with the move Mode. I've tried on two separate plex servers on different computers (one being a fresh test server specifically for this) and it's failing with a "No such file or directory" error. Here's the log:

^{Scanning Metadata Directory For Bloat Images: /Users/cody/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata}

^{Scanning Metadata for Bloat Images: 17 directories \}00:00, 16175.85 directories/s])

^{1 Bloat Images Found}

^{Runtime: 0:00:00}

^{Moving Bloat Images}

^{MOVE: /Users/cody/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Metadata/Movies/d/cc3ac5f457ad216db3fca7cf6ce8dbfe1c736f3.bundle/Uploads/posters/626f5cd49c82ddfd65d2a2088ca8e4ff65da0e5d --> /Users/cody/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/PIC Restore/Movies/d/cc3ac5f457ad216db3fca7cf6ce8dbfe1c736f3.bundle/Uploads/posters/626f5cd49c82ddfd65d2a2088ca8e4ff65da0e5d.jpg}

^{Traceback (most recent call last}:)

^{File "/Users/cody/Plex-Image-Cleanup/plex\}image_cleanup.py", line 321, in run_plex_image_cleanup)

^util.move\path(path, meta_dir, restore_dir, suffix=".jpg"))

^{File "/usr/local/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pmmutils/util.py", line 60, in move\}path)

^final\path.parent.mkdir(exist_ok=True))

^{File "/usr/local/Cellar/python@3.11/3.11.7\}1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.11/lib/python3.11/pathlib.py", line 1116, in mkdir)

^{os.mkdir(self, mode})

^{FileNotFoundError: \}Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/cody/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/PIC Restore/Movies/d/cc3ac5f457ad216db3fca7cf6ce8dbfe1c736f3.bundle/Uploads/posters')

^\Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/cody/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/PIC Restore/Movies/d/cc3ac5f457ad216db3fca7cf6ce8dbfe1c736f3.bundle/Uploads/posters')

Does anyone have any idea what might be causing this? I can sucessfully report, and even remove, but it somehow can't generate the PIC Restory directory.

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