I think their cost is a huge barrier to entry for most people.
Oh it definitely does. That’s how I’m able to play my opus library using Finamp.
What I mean is that the Finamp features seems to transcode everything to AAC if you turn it on, rather than being more intelligent about when it needs to in order to play the file format locally. I wouldn’t want it transcoding MP3s, for example.
No, in fact I bet it does. I’ll check the logs.
I wish Finamp would detect when a locally-incompatible audio format is used and transcode automatically.
I have spent many years in both the midwest and the south.
In some areas of the south, people drive extremely aggressively and there are lots of issues with compliance to various traffic laws but it is usually not difficult to get over if you need to. People will let you in. The zipper merge is a well-honed machine and almost everyone uses it and obeys it.
In the midwest, drivers tend to me more docile, cautious, and lawful overall but have an extreme sense of entitlement over their place in line. "How dare that person use that completely empty lane to get ahead of me! Can they not see there is a line!" They will absolutely not let you in. It does not matter if the zipper merge would improve traffic flow. It just is not going to happen.
Question
On iOS, why can the Jellyfin app play Opus music fine, but Finamp cannot without forcing transcoding to AAC in Finamp settings?
Details
I recently lossy-encoded my FLAC music library to Opus format and created a new library for it on my Jellyfin server. I started trying to use the Jellyfin iOS app to play music from the library, which works fine with one caveat: if the phone screen locks, the next track in the queue will not play. This seems to be related to a limitation in a library used for the Jellyfin iOS app (expo).
The only workaround I am aware of to continue playing music from a Jellyfin server on iOS after the screen locks is to use the Finamp app instead, which is a purpose-built music player app for Jellyfin servers. But it will not play Opus tracks on iOS, apparently because iOS doesn't natively support Opus except when it's in a CAF container, which is non-standard and exceedingly rare. I have to set Finamp to transcode all music to AAC in order to play the tracks.
Why can the Jellyfin app play Opus tracks on iOS without issue, but Finamp can't?
I’ve heard this related to Gaussian blur and it’s obviously possible with pixelation that uses a large number of smaller pixels, but I would honestly love to see someone demonstrate reversal of the pixelation I used here.
In any case the pixelated credentials were for limited, read only access for testing and the API client was already deleted before I posted the image.
I appreciate the concern and feedback in any case.
I saw someone mention it as an alternative to using Orca or Wiz for compliance use cases. I just wanted to check it out. I was attempting to run it locally rather than as a service with configuration via pipeline.
It seems you have a lot of experience with the tool. Can you recommend any resources that teach more advanced use cases and configurations? I'm finding that just reading the docs, playing with it, and watching the YouTube videos I found aren't really doing it for me. Most of the materials I'm finding are about AWS, but that's not relevant to me.
I learned of the existence of steampipe recently, which seems to be an interesting tool to help teams - including cybersecurity teams - understand their cloud assets and ensure compliance with security policies.
I started playing around with it, and one thing that struck me immediately is the need to store API credentials for the various plugins in plaintext in JSON files in your user profile. This struck me as incredibly insecure, especially given that the default UNIX permissions on the files seem to be 644.
Does anyone know if there is a way to store and dynamically retrieve these API credentials more securely, such as in a remote key store like AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault? I spent awhile searching and watching some YouTube videos, but didn't come across a method to do this.
Ultimately, even Democratic politicians are beholden to wealthy donors, including those associated with the health insurance industry.
In this post-Citizens-United world, the only way to make real change is to have a bunch of people willing to not hold onto power to do the right thing simultaneously. Sadly, the likelihood of that happening is vanishingly small.
