u/RockHardMapleSyrup

Any quick way of updating metadata on Google Drive for Symfonium?

I find any time i do this it messes up my files in symfonium. Anyone have any luck with this sort of thing? I needed to remove all the "(Album Version)"s and "(Remaster)"s. Really should have done this before accumulating so much.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 2 days ago

Jellyfin Music album art issue.

So I'm trying to pair Jellyfin with Symfonium to replace my use of Google Drive and Symphonium (it's somewhat limiting). My issue is that a lot of the files I KNOW have album art, appear to not have album art in Jellyfin or is replaced with generic band photos.

Is there a way to just import the metadata from the file and not rely on Jellyfin's scraping for music? Helpful for video content, sucks for music.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 2 days ago

Is it acceptable to describe a montage in paragraph form, rather than shot for shot?

Whenever I google how to do montages it's always:

... Action one...
... Action two...
... Reaction to Action two...

and so on. But if the montage is lengthy, could it be justified a paragraph description of the montage?

When i started this question I just decided to simplify, but the question is still in my head.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 3 days ago

Album Art is different depending on where I am

So I use symfonium, and I use google drive as my source. I was working my way off Google Drive for Jellyfin. To fix some metadata I threw everything through Apple Music (I'm a mac user) to fix some stuff, and that's when i noticed that a bunch of my albums that have album art, are missing it.

I have both Jellyfin and Google Drive on my device right now, and nearly half of the Jellyfin content has it's album art missing, while the Google Drive, nearly everything has album art.

Any idea what's up with that? It's all mp3 because the space matters more than having flac right now.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 4 days ago

Songs that are sad yet hopeful?

So, I'm writing a script which is quite the bummer, but my process is to listen to music related to it. So most of my go to songs were sad... But being a person with depression it feels like a spiral of depression.

Anyways, sad but hopeful! If there's a clown element, throw that in there as well. Any genre.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 4 days ago

What is a "hidden feature" that you can't shut up about?

I've been using Symfonium for just under a year now and I noticed how uninterested I seemed to be in using it for anything other than "listen to music, make playlist." So what is a feature that you think everyone should know or use?

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 5 days ago

Is there a way to switch Sources and keep the same Playlists and favourites?

I'm thinking of switching away from using Google Drive (sometimes I want to listen to my stuff on my computer but Google Drive doesn't allow for that), but I have playlists and thousands of favourited songs.

I have Jellyfin set up for movies, at least with that I could listen to my playlists on the computer.

Is this possible? Or what does everyone else have set up right now?

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 5 days ago

Do you use proper punctuation in a montage?

This might be a dumb question, but do you use proper punctuation in a montage for a script? My montages are always just sentence fragments to keep the reading going at a healthy pace, but it feels weird to me.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 5 days ago

I'm in the beta and once there was the update, my audio is nonstop jittery. It's not just Symfonium either, I uninstalled and reinstalled but that only fixed it for 30 minutes.

I left the beta, but I guess the version installed is the beta so the issue persists.

Anyone else having this issue. I'm using a Pixel 10 Pro.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 8 days ago
▲ 2 r/NewAuthor+1 crossposts

My partner and I have finished our first draft of a short that we plan to have in an anthology.

We feel that something is off but not quite sure what, and want to get it sorted out before we jump into the next step of edits and what not.

There will be mistakes, it's not formatted properly but we are looking at plot, pacing, character and motivation mostly.

It's a very short read, and there's a link to a survey at the end. Be honest. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gamxOhfLPZfPjc8s3cNxUXjyiN6GfHC95Tkclw-JajM/edit?usp=sharing

u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 11 days ago

I just had to restore to a previous backup, and it was before I made a bunch of playlists...

Is there a way to automate this? Or should I just make a weekly reminder to myself to backup my stuff.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 11 days ago

Looking for songs from the 70s and 80s for a playlist that has a big emphasis on headbanging. Song hard rock, heavy metal classics that get you drumming on the steering wheel.

List the obvious ones, list the obscure ones.

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 12 days ago
▲ 21 r/Westerns+1 crossposts

Hey, this is a book that I wrote over the course of the Pandemic and released in 2022 before I knew about this group. I've only sold two copies so I'll risk it and say I'm still a new author (this post can be removed if it's deemed not worthy).

Guns, money and murder; Richard “The Killer” Koulas has lived a life full of adventure… and regret. Koulas seeks to take what little of his life is left and run, but is held back by the promise of that “One last job” - but something is not quite right. Koulas reluctantly journeys north with his estranged brother, Buck, with promises of unholy treasure. With all eyes on Koulas, will he get away rich, or will the darkness consume him?

Can “The Killer” Koulas' legend of being the “Man without fear” help him when the unholy beings want to feed on his fear?

Grab a cup of coffee, sit on the edge of your seat and enjoy this afternoon read.

Get The Killer is Me on Amazon at https://a.co/d/05skacTM, it's free on Kindle Unlimited, $2.99 otherwise, but if you don't want to give Amazon your money, I can send you the PDF for free. I've gone 4 years without making a cent from it, why start now!

u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 13 days ago
▲ 117 r/Westerns

Everything on the two framed shelves minus the VHS's at the end.

Separated into the westerns on the first shelf and then whatever else he had second. We also got his little fiddle trinket collection, belt buckles, some socks his half used cans of spray deodorant and his last can of sardines...

A Western marathon is in the near future.

u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 14 days ago

May seem like a small thing that most never think about, but what font do you write with. It doesn't need to be the font the finished product is. I had a book come out with Georgia font so that seemed to be my go to. Montserrat was another one I used, because I worked on a website that used that font. I also write a lot of scripts for myself to film, so Courier is another that I go to.

But I'm dyslexic and found myself using Comic Sans (everyones favourite....) more recently because it is considered a dyslexic friendly font. And then when I'm done with the main chunk of writing I throw it into Georgia or something to see a more realistic page count and look.

Anyone else have a favourite font they like to write in?

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 16 days ago

I noticed that there was a selection Manage Media Providers for Audiobooks.

Is it any good? Will it keep track of places in a book and keep track of chapters, or is it just playing them big audio files?

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u/RockHardMapleSyrup — 20 days ago