u/ThoughtObjective4277

When I download a podcast, I play it in VLC, for the equalizer. What I do is run a flat EQ but drop treble from 0 to -20 past 1 kHz I have 1 kHz at -12, and the rest at minimum.

I used to do +20 on 31 hz through 500 Hz, or at least 250 hz, and lower treble, but now I find that un-relaxing and way too heavy. Plus, my headphones boost 40 and 50 hz bass, and it drops off after 50, including 60 hz being lower, and continues dropping down up to 250 Hz.

So -20 is enough -40 basically is just way too heavy.

This also helps filter the garbled high frequencies of mp3 format, since it does such a poor job, but now some podcasts have been using 192 kb/s but even so I find the lower treble nice.

It could also because my headphones pick up 2 kHz through 8 kHz quite a bit, which magnifies the garbled high-end. Great for music, absolutely would NOT have it any other way, but not great for a podcast, especially 128 kb/s and lower bitrate mp3 files.

So two things

When i browse to the favorited folder, and go to choose a new podcast, the only indication of a new, unplayed file, is showing

filesize in megabytes

To me, this is a spoiler, and here's why. When someone records an episode, as they are recording, nobody yet knows, down to the exact minute, and precisely the EXACT SECOND, how long an episode will run, it's part of the fun. But for a finished episode, I see the filesize and duration in my podcast program. All I can do as look off-angle, and not read it, and press download and hide the program view.

But for vlc, maybe you all will care about this as much as i do.

When I see filesize, and the bitrate is usually 128 kb/s, I can tell you within less than one single minute range, how long the episode will be just by the filesize. It's not as easy for 160 or 192, but still close enough that it still spoils it.

Now, for setting playback speed, I have to open the playback / queue area screen, which lists the exact minute and second remaining in the show--spoiler alert anyone?

I know I can tap on it to change it but I don't think it saves the setting.

1. Use an orange dot for new files, and something else for already played files, and do not show file size. Currently showing file size is the only indicator of a newly added or unplayed file.

2. Just as you did for EQ, thanks for that too, I didn't even ask! Move playback speed into the settings page as well. And please, go ahead and move

time-stretch off toggle box to playback speed, it's been a while, should be really easy.

When you have enough spare time, please add 2-pass EQ, and for safety of EVERYONE hearing, forcibly hard-code a mandatory and never-changable -10 preamp or better yet -20 preamp, so people don't destroy our hearing, or our headphones, when using 2-pass mode

and, make sure it ties in with default replay gain, and forcibly override it there as well.

I figured I'd throw in that last one, since you haven't had time to get around to it, and I want it to be done SAFELY, because hearing damage IS NO JOKE, and should be taken very seriously. It doesn't need a 2 pass, usually, but just a nice to have, and I'm not waiting around for it, just wanted to call back to in in case anyone is interested, no rush, I don't need it.

Dark reader can also be a light mode, which is the default setting, a light grey.

But you are only expected to change between light grey or dark grey, and a yellow sepia filter. Nothing else.

Except that's not a limitation, it's because the developer intentionally hides the setting in dev tools, which not even myself would look for it, if i was not 100% certain the feature existed.

So, if you've ever wanted a softer webpage background, instead of light grey or dark grey, here's how

Open dark reader menu, click setting and dev tool.

A new dev tool window opens, go to advanced.

Click preview new mode

which has been a new mode for six years now, and 10,000,000 dark reader users have NO idea about it. It's also mentioned nowhere in the help pages, nor the supposed tips and tricks for ADVANCED users, like come on!

Exit browser, reopen dark reader menu, see all options, click colors.

Enjoy your new webpage color freedoms, thanks to this addon, which has been able to do this, but the developers do not want you to access it. I know because it bothers me and I asked why it's hidden. Some people are submitting support requests for specific one-off websites where custom colors cause issues. So why not just ignore those posts and allow the other 9 million 900 thousand dark reader users to have access to this option?

I like using a light brown, tan, oatmeal, wood, hemp type color

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and it's much dimmer than plain white, like reading an old paper-back un-bleached book.

It doesn't work on the submit page here, only changing the word boxes, nothing else, which remains white or light grey, haven't had this issue with any other submit page here.

For websites which use its own custom color settings, and your own desired settings do not work correctly there are three possible solutions

1. click enabled for current website, and it will turn off for you whenever you go to it.
2. change from all website to theme for current website, then, change the mode from dynamic to filter or static
3. change to theme for current website, instead of all websites and try finding a color which does look closer to what you want.

Dark reader has had a "new" feature for about six years now, but won't tell anyone about it. In fact the only reason I had any idea, was I used to use awful Android and Firefox. Which does allow addons, unlike iPhone.

In dark reader, for android's firefox, custom colors are on by default for anyone to use--but no other version of dark reader will allow you to know about this hidden setting. It bothered me enough to reach out to the dev, and the reasoning is because of erroneous / needless / unfixable support requests.

I understand one part of it, but why deny 10,000,000 human beings the ability to benefit from an option just because of a non-techincal annoying few users complaining about something which is not feasible to fix? I don't understand that side of the reasoning.

If you haven't seen the option in dark reader, here's how

open dark reader's menu, click settings, dev tools. You'd never go to dev tools, for any imaginable reason, would you? If not for looking for this feature, neither would I.

This opens a new dev tools window of dark reader, go to advanced.

Click preview new mode, exit / reopen browser / dark reader addon menu.

Click see all options, and click colors.

Your welcome!

For color ideas, I suggest one of two setups, I would consider each a valuable way to view a screen.

One is a sky-blue color, not pure 00 00 FF pure blue, but rather a full-spectrum blue, containing some red, more green, and full blue, some combination of that which looks decent on your screen. As an example

60e0ff

60 is red, ff equals about 192 if my math is correct, regular colors go up to 256, but not on websites.

e0 is green, about 32 points lower than blue, of the 192 max. each letter, such as a, goes from a0 to a9, which is 10 possible brightness options. Then it changes to aa through af, which is 6 possible brightness options for a total of 16 settings per each A - F letter.

16 x 6 or 32 x 3 = 96. 00 - 99 or 100 options + 96 equals 196 brightness levels for each red, green and blue color.

ff is max, meaning 192.

You don't need to know all that, you can just move the circle to whatever looks just right.

The one I normally stick with is a beige, brown, tan, hemp, wood, oatmeal type of color, exactly

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or somewhere around this range or color. I might slightly adjust it a smidge or two for a bit more brightness, or dull the color saturation. But that's one of my saved color settings which I use daily.

This reminds me of reading a paper-back book, a brown / tan color, much easier on the eyes for extending reading, or just taking a break from looking at the screen.

Each screen is different, some old screens have an off-purple color, due to the very cheap design of the LED phosphor coating, and changing the background color can help completely offset it and be nicer to look at.

You'll notice it more if you have set a tan / yellowish color, and turn off dark reader, as it switches back to regular white, and you might notice what I'm talking about.

Blue can offset a purplish tone

Hemp / wood color / tan offsets a purplish tone as well, and is not as intense as a faded white washed out blue color.