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The only thing I appreciate about the Internet is discovering beautiful voices like Юлия Савичева, but then you realize the platform it’s all stuck on is a complete mess.

Her voice is stunning, but the fact that it’s trapped on sites like YouTube just reminds me how messed up the whole system is.

Sometimes I wonder how something so pure ends up on platforms designed to keep us hooked and distracted.

The good thing is that I can use yt-dlp to grab music videos and enjoy them with something truly free like MPV, no strings attached.

Here’s one of her songs I keep coming back to: youtube.com/watch?v=NWMb4SnJRB

TIL: #mpv has a --profile option, allowing you to define "profiles" which set a combination of certain options.

Not only that, but you can also define conditions for these profiles, so that they're being auto-applied depending on file type, resolution, playback state … anything really!

Here's me instructing mpv to set the volume to 80 % when playing @somafm.

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Guess who spent the day writing his own #mpv plugin for fetching @somafm metadata (because the Icecast tags in the stream only contain artist and title mashed together in a single string, but there's a JSON feed on somafm.com) and scrobbling it to #LastFM 🙈

Yeah I'll release it as open source at some point, but right now I'm tired and busy.

Also, #Lua isn't so bad once you wrap your head around it. But it _is_ very bare-bones and the opposite of Python's "batteries included" philosophy.

Wenn mir #mpv eine "Colormatrix: dolbyvision" anzeigt, bei nem Video, das keinen TrueHD- oder EAC3-Track hat, sondern FLAC, was bedeutet das dann? Hat das Video #DolbyVision-Informationen eingebettet oder nicht? Vielleicht nur einen Teil davon? Wie geht das überhaupt, ich dachte, diese Metainformationen wären immer im proprietären Dolby-Track?

Unter "Format" steht "p010" was Dolby Vision Profile 8.4 entspricht, einem irgendwie zu HLG kompatiblem Encoding, hä? Aber wo wird das nun hinterlegt?