Stop googling and just read the rsync man page

Fair enough, sometimes you get tunnel vision with a problem.

For what I see the command doing, thanks for the progress flag, it seems to be doing what I need. Reading the manual, it also looks like it's not copying files that have the same size and timestamp in the source and destination, which is also what I wanted, even though I didn't make it explicit. I'll have to take a look to making the command parallel, probably by running it on every subdirectory of ~Music at once.

Thank you for your help!

At my previous workplace we had a C macro that was something like

#define CheckWhatever(x__, true__, false__) \
    whatever(x) ? (true__) : (false__)

I don't remember this shit, so I'm just paraphrasing cursed C. The question one would ask is... why? Well, because you also want to do

#define CheckWhatever2(x__, true__, false__) \
    CheckWhatever((x__ ##1), (true__), (false__)) \
    CheckWhatever((x__ ##2), (true__), (false__))

And, of course

#define CheckWhatever3(x__, true__, false__) \
    CheckWhatever2((x__ ##1), (true__), (false__)) \
    CheckWhatever2((x__ ##2), (true__), (false__))

Long story short, someone wanted to CheckWhatever6 inside another macro. While debugging code old enough to vote, my editor suggested expanding the macro, which expanded to ~1400 lines for a single ternary operator chain. Fun times!

From the article: The proletarii constituted a social class of Roman citizens who owned little or no property. The name presumably originated with the census, which Roman authorities conducted every five years to produce a register of citizens and their property, which determined their military duties and voting privileges.

It looks honestly beautiful! I've been looking for a device like this one for some time, but I don't know if it plays OPUS files. The web says it plays OGG, so it should play OPUS as well...? Do you mind trying one in your player?

I've uploaded a song to litterbox with an expiry time of 3 days: https://litter.catbox.moe/6dw2j7hxh4hme2gg.opus

Also, if you don't want to trust a file some rando on the internet sent you, here's an ffmpeg command to convert any mp3 file to opus:

# Opus 190kbps is the format I use for transparency bitrate
ffmpeg -i song.mp3 -c:a libopus -b:a 190k song.opus

If you can try it, I'l be very grateful!

Angelus Apatrida!

Never forget your roots

(setq x (if (> y 5) :foo :bar))

I added some context here. The thing is that it still took ages because stating every file is still very slow in my target player, so if I cache the status I can automatically create a script that just performs the required operations and run that.

And yes, I do enjoy writing small utilities :p Thanks!

Yooo the gba reboot is brutal! I remember playing the underground base level emulating with my psp eleven years ago. I love that game!

My issue atm is that the destination filesystem is very slow, so just querying it every file's timestamp add a very significant delay. Since I can treat my ~/Music directory as the source of truth, I am considering writing a program that saves the status of the local filesystem at a point in time and then generates a diffing script when comparing it to a new status so I can use my fast, local computer to run the update checks.

I actually replaced it! That's why I'm positive that the issue is with the underlying filesystem driver. At the end of the day, it's just running a basic Android KitKat with the Rockbox app on top. What player do you have? I'm considering getting a new one but have no clue what to get yet XD

Ahhh! I considered getting that player last year, but it doesn't support the libopus codec, which is basically all my library. I need one that can run rockbox, as I want to be able to use it for my podcasts as well. It looks beautiful though, I would buy it just to contemplate it <3

I have bad news for you

I don't save FLAC files, as I don't have that much space (my library is 82GB big with 17629 tracks atm). What I do is that I have a script I wrote to convert all the files to Opus. I still have some old mp3s laying around that I convert or find better sources over time.

As for rsync command, it's taken far longer than I would like to sync all the files. I've gotten an idea about caching the filesystem status for later uses to speed up the process, so I may end up writing a script after all!

Read the book and use A* to find it

It's an Innioasis Y1, which I'm in the process of changing for another player because the filesystem gets stuck buffering many songs (like 1/5 or even more).

We don't have thrift stores here, so I get my recommendations from friends! Algorithmic exploration is one thing I do miss from YouTube. Even though it was still on the safe side it got me to find many great albums. Nowadays I browse wikipedia pages for genres I'm interested in, the /mu/ essential charts (fuck 4chan but wow what a great resource) and conversations with friends and fedi <3