@disquiet I have a networked disk at home that holds my music, and devices that can access it. #BubbleUpnP is a good remote for that on android. #dlna #rygel

❌ Rygel 0.41.2

[VLC F-Droid] Clients in the local network can connect to the media library in my system, they see all media available, but can't play anything (see example screenshot).

However, one of the VLC clients (3.2.12) can play the media normally when served by a Debian machine with an older Rygel (0.40.0). Another VLC client (3.3.4), can't play from Debian either with the same error in the screenshot.

I'd upgrade F-Droid and VLC, but F-Droid fails to do so 🦟

#gnu #guix #rygel #vlc

#softwareGripe Media software which assumes you just want it to search all of your hard drives for media and make it all available, rather than asking you where to look (preferably with a nice GUI "open folder" dialog box).

Lookin' at you, #NextCloud music player and also #Rygel.

I mean, come on guize -- I have a lot of audio and video that isn't really stuff I want on my jukebox. Not because it's embarrassing or anything (though I can certainly imagine scenarios), but just because it's not entertainment.

Scanning through all that could take hours, if not days... whereas the stuff I want to include is only a few tens of gigabytes in a few specific folders. #WTF

(Dishonorable mention to #Calibre, which does the same thing with eBooks.)