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> expected that the `--mpv-socket` option would allow me to send videos to the player instance tied to that socket Ahh that's interesting. I experimented with a setup almost like that before[0]. It increased the complexity quite a bit more than I expected when refactoring some of the features so I decided against it but I recommend checking out the python_mpv_jsonipc library. I still use it in with --auto-seek and -4dtv (interdimensional cable mode) BUT if you wanted a setup like this I think it wouldn't be too difficult to use something like `lb wt -l120 -pf` and then pipe to a program that will send the files to mpv one at a time. or maybe something like: mpv --playlist=<(lb wt vids.db -l120 -pf) > Wayland I recommend checking to see if your window manager can solve this for you [1] I use KDE/KWin so in Window Rules I set mpv to sk

Whenever moving folders with folders which have the same names I would always wince when seeing "directory not empty" or "destination already exists" and then immediately give up and use a GUI file manager. The existing solutions all have caveats: mv ./src/* ./dest/ oops no dotfiles ?! but also this will fail if any of the globbed subfolders have subfolder conflicts (and it will silently move globbed folders into subfolders of the same name--I can't imagine this is what most people assume it is doing) rsync --remove-sent-files rclone move rsync and rclone will copy the files to move them which can be very slow when renaming is all that is needed So I've created my own which uses BSD syntax: pip install xklb library merge-mv folder1 folder2/ # folder1 will go inside folder2 library merge-mv folder1/ folder2/

Well... HN strips the page fragment so you'll have to Ctrl+F "similar-folders" Or: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library?tab=readme-ov-file#...

> manually visit specific people’s web sites to see what new stuff they posted RSS is nice but I've started to do this as well. Something like this works across all sites: > The main benefit of tabs is that you can have a large amount of tabs saved (say 500 monthly tabs) and only the smallest amount of tabs to satisfy that goal (500/30) tabs will open each day. 17 tabs per day seems manageable--500 all at once does not. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library?tab=readme-ov-file#...

You might want to look into catt for Chromecast: - https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt/ But I'm not aware of what the equivalent would be for Amazon-type casting I wrote a wrapper around catt for playing music to my house speaker-groups. It also works with video but I don't cast video as often so that part might be buggy--in that case better to use catt directly - https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library

Sure, I write small python CLI utils that help me solve media organization, media consumption, and sometimes data analysis. I use this every day on Linux and Android but I haven't tested it on other platforms. There are a lot of different subcommands and, although the CLI package will always be opinionated to some extent, there is a lot of niche functionality which might not need to exist. So I'm open to things being refactored or new subcommands being added. [1] I have a lot of ideas for new ones, for example, I want a CLI that can take an artist name like "Theodor Kittelsen" and fetch highest quality public domain images--but I realize any implementation that does this well will be somewhat fragile so I haven't really attempted that yet. Other ideas that I have are often solved by piping output from one of my existing commands to anothe

I used sqlite-utils to create a tool that can merge SQLITE files and split them: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library?tab=readme-ov-file#...

I've created a few similar tools for link scraping: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library#usage - library links-extract: extract inner links from pages (stdin, local files, or remote sites) - library links-add: extract inner links across from multiple pages (paged lists of articles/forums) into a SQLITE database - library links-update: fetch new items for each link in a links-db (just added this yesterday) You can use the same filtering across all subcommands. For example you can filter based on text between links: pip install xklb library links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bacon_dishes --path-include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ --after-include famous You can use all of them with the same --cookies-from-browser interface that yt-dlp provides for pages that are locked behind a login. Alternatively, copy and paste:

I made two: https://unli.xyz/eject/ -- no login, data saved to local browser, you can export to CSV https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library -- similar to Plex but CLI-only and no "server" or downloads needed.

yt-dlp works with many but not all podcast websites. You could download everything with metadata and mtime and then sort by earliest to most recent in a file browser. I wrote a tool that might help with this if you don't want to download the files immediately but it definitely isn't required if you just download everything and use yt-dlp's download-archive. pip install xklb lb tubeadd podcasts.db 'http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast?format=rss' lb listen podcast.db # it will keep track of what you played and prioritize playing things that haven't been played before And later do tubeupdate to check for new episodes: lb tubeupdate podcasts.db If the website extractor provides metadata about file creation (eg. YouTube extractor) then you could use this to play the oldest videos first: lb listen podcast.db -u time_modif

I'm confused what xklb is doing in there. https://pypi.org/project/xklb/ describes it as being a manager for media libraries. I see from https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/ that it does have other features like merging SQLite databases, cluster sorting, and stuff.. but I'm intrigued why that stuff is in a media management library?

I would also[0] be interested in an argparse equivalent of this for my tool Library[1] [0] https://github.com/Textualize/textual/discussions/228 [1] https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library