u/CrispyBegs

i've been looking for a reliable 'seerr' equivalent for books since the sudden demise of Ephemera some time ago (RIP). Something I can give a non-technical family member to request stuff like I can with overseerr / seerr.

I've had a dig around and found shelfmark & shelfarr but it's quite hard to tell what a dev vibecoded into existence 6 months ago and since walked away from and what's a solid project. Not helped by different projects using the same project name (like shelfarr).

I stood up Shelfmark and it seems to work really well, although the UI isn't great for a non-technical user ("what is prowlarr as opposed to direct download?" / "which of these thousand download options should I pick?" / "what is a torrent?" / "why is one version of a book marked as 'althub' while another is 'nzbgeek'? what do those mean?" and so on).

There seems to be several other simliar services that have come and gone over the last year. Have we settled on a stable standard yet?

pre-empting the automod: no ai was used in this post. i'd rather roll my face in broken glass and dogshit, thanks.

Firstly, forgive my lack of knowledge, I'm one of those who buys stuff when the whim takes me then the purchase sits in a drawer for ages, so I'm not up to the eyeballs in this stuff like most of you.

I bought on Odin 2 base model (8GB) a couple of years back and have a load of retro games on it (up to PS2), but tbh I've barely played it.

I read recently about developments in being able to play steam games on android handhelds like this and, as far as I can make out, this can possibly be done with a branch of rocknix (although i think it needs a PC to set up, which I don't have), and also GameHub, GameNative, and Winlator?

I have no idea which of these options would give the best performance given my hardware. Any recommendations? The less tinkering the better.

If i can play things like vampire survivors then great. Anything upwards from that (like modern tomb raider etc) would be amazing, but I have doubts anything would work.

your comments & advice are warmly welcome. thank you in advance

Hi all, weird as it sounds, I bought a brand new Tascam DR-40 off ebay in 2014 and only just got around to unwrapping it.

I'd like to go into my city centre (will be incredibly noisy in general) and capture a bunch of sounds and I was wondering if you can recommend a cheap but decent mic for city recordings, if you think it's even necessary.

I know the Tascam isn't the best recorder but it's the one I have (together with deadcat protection), and I don't want to spend loads of cash for something that might be a temporary project, so the best band for the buck is what i'm looking for here. I don't know much (anything, really) about mics. I can get a used Sennheiser ME66/K6 from ebay for less than £50 but I have no idea if that's suitable for my use case.

Any tips?

i have about 30,000 tracks in my library but, annoyingly, a number of them have both 192k and 320k mp3s versions. it's too much to go through by hand so i could really do with a tool that finds those duplicates, shows them to me in a ui of some kind and allows me to delete the lower quality version.

I know many such tools exists to do exactly this with photos, but is there a similar tool for music?

EDIT: either mac / docker / linux if possible

i just added a couple of my spotify playlists, but the completely failed to import.

is that a terminal condition or is it possible they'll try again automatically later and possibly succeed?

i gave deepseek the lidarr container logs and it replied with:

>
Based on the logs you provided, the issue isn't with your network configuration (that part is working fine), but rather a known and currently unresolved problem with Lidarr itself.

>The critical error is:
[Warn] HttpClient: HTTP Error - Res: HTTP/2.0 [POST] https://api.lidarr.audio/api/v0.4/spotify/lookup: 404.NotFound

>This confirms that Spotify import lists are currently broken in Lidarr.

>❌ The Real Problem: Lidarr's Spotify Integration is Broken

>You haven't done anything wrong. This is a widespread issue affecting many users. Here's the breakdown:

>The Cause: Recent changes on Spotify's end, combined with necessary updates to Lidarr's metadata infrastructure, have broken the API endpoint Lidarr uses to communicate with Spotify . The 404 Not Found error means Lidarr is sending a request to a web address that no longer exists or is inaccessible .

>The Current Status: As of early 2026, Spotify list imports are still not functioning correctly in Lidarr . The feature is effectively "disabled due to the fallout from the metadata servers"

>Do not spend time troubleshooting your lidarr_default network or your Lidarr settings for Spotify. They are likely fine.

>Accept that the built-in Spotify import list feature is currently broken for all users.

>Choose a workaround: The fastest path to success will be using Last.fm as an intermediary  or using an external script like spotify-to-plex .

how accurate is that response?

long time plex user here and I also have jellyfin running in parallel. i don't use jellyfin but set it up a while back just to see how it is, and it seems to work fine.

last night i spun up Emby for the very first time and it seems to be really fast and looks nice, and the android app works great as well. on a surface level i prefer it to jellyfin so far

for anyone who uses / has used both, is there something that emby / jellyfin does better than the other which is a reason to use one over the other?

asking this as i fully expect plex to kill my (everyone's) lifetime sub at some point so i'd like to have the best working replacement in position for when that inevitably happens

I just got my Y1 today and it has firmware 3.0.7. I was trying out different themes, which work fine, but i kept noticing that when scrolling through the home menu there was always one icon that didn't fit whatever theme I had loaded.

Upon closer inspection it seems the new firmware now includes an 'ebook' home menu item that wasn't there before, and so now every single theme that anyone has made is missing an icon for that option and instead features an ugly factory default icon that's out of character with all the other theme custom icons.

I also noticed that it's not an option on the https://y1-themes.vercel.app theme maker, so I'm guessing it's new.

There also doesn't seem to be a way of hiding or removing home menu items? So it seems that either all themes need to be reworked or, preferably, a function is added to be able to hide home menu items which would obviously be the more elegant solution rather than everyone having to edit every theme they've ever made.

(i personally just want to listen to music so I'd hide ebooks / videos / photos / videos etc)

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I have monterey (12.7.4) on my mac and none of the desktop updaters will work with it. I can update to ventura but I don't really want to do that if the innioasis updater still won't work with it, and I can't see any system requirement documentation for the updater anywhere.

so what's the minimum MacOS requirement to get it working?

I've been hovering over buying a Y1 for a while but then saw there's a Y2 coming and read this big update thread.

Point number number 1 is:

>1）Hardware upgrades: New chipset, increased internal storage, and improved Bluetooth

imo internal storage should be completely removed and leave SD card storage as the only option. Those of you who also dabble in r/SBCGaming will be very familiar with manufacturers shipping their consoles with bottom-of-the-barrel SD cards and the default advice to everyone is to immediately throw them away and replace with a decent brand instead, because the supplied SD cards will 100% fail in a short space of time - maybe a week, maybe 2 months, but they will fail sooner than you want.

Having read hundreds of Y1 reviews you can see the exact same thing happening, so imo the Y2 should ditch "internal storage" entirely and reflect whatever that saving is in a marginally lower retail cost.

SD-only storage doesn't read as a minus for devices like the Hiby R1 or dozens of other similar devices, so I don't see why it should be an issue for the Y2. It's an advantage, if anything. Being forced to open up the Y1 to replace a card that will likely fail sooner than I want is probably the main reason I haven't pulled the trigger on it yet.

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

I recently stumbled across this sub and some of the posts resonated with me.

Back in 1995 I was getting ready for work at the same time I always did (probably around 7 or 7:30am) in time to arrive at work just before 9am.

On the way to work something felt slightly different.. you know when you're so used to traffic flows or maybe the sun in the sky at particular times of day? I probably didn't pay too much attention to it at the time, but something felt not quite the same as usual.

When I got to work my colleagues said something like "nice of you to join us", and there were way more people in the office than when I usually arrive.

I was clearly confused and they pointed out it was already past 10:30am

This incident has bugged me over the years. It's never happened before or since, I have no history of mental illness whatsoever, I've never fainted or passed out at any time for any reason and I wasn't sick with anything at the time of the incident.

I don't think it's paranormal (I'm generally a sceptic) and I'm sure there must be an explanation of how I lost a couple of hours of my life, but here I am decades later still with no explanation