I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.
An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.
A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.
If you search for “find duplicate files <your OS>” there seem to be some options…
An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.
If you’re using Samsung, check out Soundassistant from Goodlock.
No Samsung. I want this for my Google Streamer.
I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
Immich lets you do this
https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/
For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
I think there is a fine line between “installing an app” and “spinning up a docker image and keeping it maintained”.
I’m in the camp that Docker images are what .exe’s used to be, but they’re not easily accessible still. So Immich doesn’t count I fear.
A service or a website to find other websites. Search engine nowadays uses sentences, but why can’t we use tags and filters?
Google and duckduckgo may give 4 HUGE websites, but nothing more than that. Why can’t I just see all the unique different services all listed up?
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
I once thought it would be cool to have a program you could feed a photo of an evil boss’s or slimy politician’s face, from which it would then create a little cartoon character. That you could subject to various simulated tortures. Throw knives at it, lower it into boiling oil, draw and quarter, etc. Would probably be a hit in some offices.
There’s been a lot that I’ve been looking for but I’ve never been able to find. Here are the one’s that I can remember off the top of my head.
The first, which doesn’t need to be an app/program, is something that would allow me to get more use out of Flathub. I’ve been wanting to get more use out of Flathub but the biggest problem I have with Flathub, is that there is no reliable way to discover new apps. The reason for this is because of how the website sorts its apps. They seem to be sorted either randomly or by popularity, as the order changes occasionally, and it mixes new apps in with the old apps. What I’ve been doing is using a chart to keep track of what apps I’ve seen but I have no idea of how reliable this actually is.
The second, I’ve mentioned before on another post, is a companion app for GameFAQs that’s similar to Anime Plus. If you’re not familiar with Anime Plus, it’s a website that works as companion app for MyAnimeList. It looks at your MAL profile and generates a temporary profile that offers a few useful features like a list of anime/manga that you’ve missed and recommendations for other anime/manga.
The last one that I can remember, is a reliable gamepad mapper app for android devices that doesn’t require root. I’ve tried multiple gamepad mapper apps but none of them worked properly and I’m pretty sure that some of them contained malware, especially given the fact that they’ve been removed from the Google Play Store.
Media server software that lets me program my own television station.
5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.VLC (Video LAN Client) probably has a plugin for this. It was designed to stream video across networks.
That is like a 10 line bash script? Well maybe a little more but not much. Start here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at
Setting up something like a cron job is trivial, getting it to stream files from a particular folder, on a channel I can access on demand, is the trick.
Ideally I want to be able to change the input on my television, any time I want, to my personal streaming channel which is constantly running the schedule I’ve defined.
The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you’d again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer’s hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I’m still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I’d use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.
Added: maybe you don’t even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to set up some cron job that would change a symlink to a folder every hour and just run programs from that symlink.
That would likely work if the intent was to watch files locally, and that’s not the goal. The goal is to stream them out to something viewable on a television.
A DLNA server can do the streaming, but not the scheduling and it won’t run continuously.
There’s tons of these? I’ve been using DizqueTV for like five years without issue.
Not linking to reddit, but this DisqueTV?
0.o appreciate you bringing that to my attention.
I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn’t come close to cutting it for me.
Check out pyautogui, it’s probably what you’re looking for. You can manipulate the mouse and keyboard and even look for images contained on the screen.
Interesting. I use Autokey daily. By the minute even. I’ll have to research what I’m missing.
Digimon.
I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.
Pokémon go doesn’t cut it for me, the battle isn’t Pokemon. The games are great but it’s me playing the guy not me being the guy.
I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I’m already in college and writing full time
So, kinda like Pou, but with PvP?
Yeah. I even wanted to include an account based scanner for loot. You’d be able to scan barcodes and qr to get loot, battles, and stuff, but after the first scan it would remember and lock that reward so you could reclaim it daily.
I imagined players keeping little collections of barcodes so you could easily reclaim useful loot and when players meet in the wild they could scan up each others collections to get codes they may hot have found in the wild.
Sort of reminds me of Habbie
Yeah, but with a unique leveling system and PvP.
The only thing I’ve ever really wanted that didn’t used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.
This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven’t seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there’s one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog’s breed. Haven’t seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.
Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.
Seek and iNaturalist is for all animals and plants. They use your photos to track data about the species you take pictures of, mostly just where you found them. It also keeps track of all of the species you’ve found and gives you challenges to find certain species depending on where you are in the world. If the AI fails to identify something, your photo can be peer reviewed by other users.
i’ve seen commercials of Gemini doing this. not sure how accurate it is realistically…
Gemini itself sucks for pretty much everything. The non-AI assistant that preceeded it did a much better job, IMO. Though, it didn’t have item recognition capabilities at all out side of music. It feels like it’s just a language bot being forced to do things it wasn’t designed for, so you ask it what a thing is and it just spits out text that seems normal but is also completely wrong.
The general “thing” recognition is better on my Quest 3’s room scanning function. But it’s not meant for telling you what things are, just for making furniture in real space appear in virtual space too 🤷♂️
Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.
Winamp used to do this.
Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin
That is like a
105 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.Ok 6 lines (untested):
while true; do album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1) for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do mplayer $song done doneMinus that second pipe to shuf, it seems exactly what the person wanted.
The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.
I read it as play a random album straight through, first song to last song, but re-reading what they wrote, you may be right.
An app that exports all the events (title, date, time, url link) from my newsletter email inbox. Bonus points for same but for Instagram. I vibe coded something but gave up… For now.
Just use rss
- Something to use in place of Microsoft Active Directory, but FOSS
- A program that automagically removes any DRM from an executable, whether it’s a simple CD check or fucking denuvo
- Anything that makes playing fullscreen games in low resolutions NOT mess up your desktop - if you ever played something in like 1024x768 on a 1920x1080 default resolution, you should know what I’m talking about
LDAP? It what AD is based on, at least originally. I haven’t looked at either in 10+ years.
- Something to use in place of Microsoft Active Directory, but FOSS
We’re using samba pretty well. I’m hoping it’ll stay awesome.
