To add to the melancholy: Fasnacht in Basel was cancelled twice during covid. That hit many people very hard. A small group played two well known tunes (one in a minor key instead of the usual major) up one of the towers of the minster to symbolically carry Basler Fasnacht to its grave (downstairs the police was trying to get the door open because they did not know about it). The performance is haunting and is of course on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge7LRIPKREA
Ha, die Streuner were the original inspiration for me to write my own dumb and small music streaming service. Seeing them mentioned here might just give me the motivation to pick that project up again.
Hah, that’s cool :D They are on Spotify, nowadays, though. But yeah, I own all their albums, though it took until last week for me to realize they had a 25th anniversary album in 2019. Without facebook it’s hard keeping up with releases of bands not on Bandcamp.
I quite love that story and at least my age says I am an adult. Very recently I wrote a short (~320 words) review of it in preparation for my English C2 exam and it even was fun to write about it :)
Not 40k but the warhammer armies project with some friends (most of them started playing fantasy back during the 6th and 7th edition).
For years I mostly painted without playing (it is a great source of calmness for me), but during the pandemic, my brother got himself a capable 3D printer and we started printing models (there is a huge amount of great and affordable ones out there) and I started building an army (beastmen) to play. We all are interested in fluff and storytelling, so that usually makes a long game go by quite quickly (and makes for great and very weird conversation pieces, even years later).
I also seem to have been lucky with the girls/women in my life, never seemed mutually exclusive (one of them actually taught me how to paint in a somewhat proper way).
Yeah, that's bound to happen on Linux if you run an update while Firefox is open. Being able to continue running while all your files get switched out from under you is a pretty big thing to ask from a program and I think they were having issues with crashes and risking corrupted profiles, so they made it do that just in case.
In my experience, running software updates while using the system is a pretty bad idea in general. It works well most of the time, but there's a reason Linux* is the only system that allows that (every other OS defers applying updates to a reboot).
I am using the pbp with sway (if you don't know it, an i3 like wm for wayland), works well for me. Hoping for gles 3.3 support in mesa (3.0 is experimental but there) to be able to run alacritty :)
The amount of time I spent on correcting wrong chapter marks (like the first four books of the Wheel of Time) is masochistic. But I am absolutely happy that I have the possibility of doing so after the conversion :)
Maybe you would like to try m4b-tool chapter-adjustment by musicbrainz id or silence-detection? :-)
Disclaimer: I'm the author - https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool
I once planned a chapter database (https://www.chapter-db.org) to collect work like yours, provide an online chapter editor and bind an api to m4b-tool, but i did not have the time to finish the project.
Heh, I just started The Dragon Reborn on my 3rd read-through. I have noticed the chapters aren't right, but it hasn't really bothered me. What does your workflow look like when fixing these? Is there a way to share chapter corrections so others can apply them to their files?
I have the corresponding ebooks too, so I open up the whole audiobook as one file and guess where the chapters are from the waveform. I listen to the guess and compare to the ebook, checking whether I am too far or too early. Once I find the correct position (and I got quite good at spotting it from the waveform), I set a marker and start with the next chapter. In the end I split it along the markers.
I was planning on writing something to spot when they say "chapter" as it is always the same but I never got around to that. Also, doing all that work was almost meditative :)
A way to share the corrections would be to export the markers from audacity but sadly I don't have that data anymore, though I could calculate the markers from the files I exported if you are interested.
Well, if you own the epub, you could try to find out the whole length of the audiobook, then extract the whole text of the epub splitted by chapters and then relatively match the text length to the audio length and put the chapters where the nearest silence is (chapter 2 is at 3.3845% of the whole text, so seek for a silence around 3.3845% of the audio length)
I got some pretty good matches with m4b-tool here, while it does not work for all audio books (you need the latest pre-release for this very experimental undocumented feature!):
# try to match my-book.epub on my-audiobook.m4b
# ignore first, second and last two epub-chapters for the match (dedication etc.)
# split chapters into sub chapters to ensure they are between 5 and 15 minutes
# create a backup of the original chapters (done automatically)
m4b-tool chapters -v --epub=my-book.epub --epub-ignore-chapters=0,1,-1,-2 --max-chapter-length=300,900 "my-audiobook.m4b"
# omg it did not work and messed up all chapters, please restore the original chapters
m4b-tool chapters -v --epub-restore "my-audiobook.m4b"
# ok, lets only dump the findings in chapter.txt format to do it manually
m4b-tool chapters -v --epub-dump --epub=my-book.epub my-audiobook.m4b
Yeah that does sound like a lot of work. I appreciate the offer but like I said it hasn't bothered me much. I don't know that I've ever relied on chaptering for audiobooks, other than for breaking the book into smaller pieces to make the scrubbing less sensitive. My mental model is much more of a linear monolith.
