Can I use it as a jellyfin client? Does that... make sense?
I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.
I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.
Woah, how did I not know about that tip about omitting the search pattern? Love it and will be using that lots!
As a thank you, I'll leave you with the way I learned to search/replace, just to give you a slightly different flavour: asterisk, cgn ([c]hange [g]o [n]ext), type replaced, then . (period, to repeat) until I'm done.
My friend is the first dev hire at a startup where they prematurely overengineered for scalability. The technical founders had recently exited a previous startup and their rationale was that it makes a future acquisition easier, since a potential acquirer will weigh scalability in their evaluation of the code (and maybe even conflate it with quality). In fact it was a regret from their first startup that they hadn't baked in scalability earlier. I remain skeptical of the decision, but curious if there's any truth to the fact that acquirers weigh scalability in their scorecard?
Sure, if the acquirer thinks the product is going to sell a lot.
A relatively common plan (it doesn't always work) for large enterprise software companies is to buy a product and then use their very large sales force to sell it into all their existing customers. If thats the plan, you have to make sure the product will work with all the increased usage.
I'd still suggest it's far better to optimize for building the right product - the "is this going to scale" problem is one of the nicest problems you can face.
My time to shine! I'm a computer programmer but I've been making music digitally for about 15 years now
The software you want is called a DAW - Digital Audio Workstation. There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'. There are a multitude of paradigms, as making music is not a single technique.
Once you find your DAW, my recommendation is to just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head. Make the tracks that don't exist but you wish they did. Your first 100-200-300 tracks will all be extremely crappy in hindsight, but when you finish them you'll think they are, at the time, a magnum opus each. Keep iterating that process over and over and after many years, you'll start making something that you'll feel semi-proud enough to be able to show your friends!
Your enthusiasm is shining through. For someone wanting to do exactly what you said "just make lots of music. Make the music you imagine in your head." and faced with the issue of "There are 300 DAWs, you need to find the one that fits your 'style' or 'workflow'.", how do I choose? I am not a music maker, I have never made music - I would like to though. I don't even have a style or workflow. I don't know how to start.
Start by starting! Pick a DAW, if you can't pick one, pick one of the most famous. Ableton Live maybe?
Just put some notes down and hit the play button. That's the whole feedback loop. Everything else is just honing your skill and repeating this feedback loop 80 thousand times until you start getting stuff out that you semi-like :)
PS: My background is also as a computer programmer with previously zero music making experience. My first tracks were absolute garbage, and that's fine. Every new track is 0.01% better (read: less worse :') than the last one, and that's it. Rinse. Repeat.
I would buy a synth and learn it as you would any other instrument, something on the simpler side and not a work station or the like so you can focus on it more as an instrument. Modern technology makes it all to easy to just have an entire electronic music studio which is a great deal to learn and few are going to ever learn any of it well if they start with a full studio. Build out from there, once you are getting the hang of the synth install a DAW or something to record with on your computer and start learning that, record an entire album worth of songs with just that one synth. I always liked using SoX as a multitrack recorder, ecasound was nice as well, kept things more about making music instead of being an engineer.
Back when I was more active with electronic music I would do an entire album worth of tracks with each new synth I got, software or hardware, good way to learn a synth.
I've been having a lot of fun getting started with Max/MSP following Cipriani & Giri's "Electronic Music And Sound Design" books. Max is a paid program though; Pure Data is similar but open source.
Just to share my experience: My brother and I recently digitized all our family photos. The process doesn't have to be so daunting. We found someone on facebook marketplace with a high quality scanner, and paid them to scan every photo and put it on a USB stick. I don't remember how much it cost but it was pennies per photo.
Not a dig at you but I laughed a bit when reading it.
"it's not hard, just pay someone to do it for you"
I get the sentiment though. I've spent countless of hours trying to read up on digitizing our VHS collection while the proper thing would've been to just have a company do it for me. The main concern for me though is that they might just run the most basic settings and I'm telling myself that doing it myself will allow me to future proof the format a bit better.
Haha, yeah fair point. My comment does seem trite when you put it that way ;)
The point I was trying to make (which I think you understood) was that it was _surprisingly cheap_ to outsource. In the range of ~$100 for our entire collection.
I should mention that this project was undertaken because a relative's house burned down and, with it, all their family photos. So my comment is meant as encouragement for anyone sitting on a treasure trove of family photos who is thinking to digitize: do it! And to inform that this process that I thought would be very painful/tedious is something that can be outsourced for relatively cheap.
I'm not allowed to start a new project until I complete my current one.
Since I have a huge backlog of ideas, my "reward" for finishing a project is that I get to work on the next most exciting idea. Yay!
This forces me to keep the scopes small.
I'm allowed to rescope my current project to something smaller/imperfect after I've started (for example if I discover that my initial vision is going to take too long), but I still have to finish it before I'm allowed to start the next one.
I bought a new tv (samsung s90d) and I haven't found have a great way to watch my jellyfin media. This tv doesn't have a jellyfin client in the samsung app store.
I feel like I'm being stupid here, would love some suggestions :P I've got a local jellyfin server running on a home server in the basement.