I'm first getting started on this aswell. I've stumbled upon an opportunity to digitize '90s punk shows from my city, I don't even own a deck yet.

FM RF capture is the most interesting and I hope the vhs-decode and MISRC github wiki will have a guide that's sufficient. I'm just hoping that they release the new MISRC 2.5 soon, that is supposed to be easier to use.

It's been a year since your post. How did it go? Did you get started?

An issue I've run into has been that every time I try to run yt-dlp I get an error because I haven't imported cookies from an account or used a browser with them saved.

This may be a noob question, as I went through a certificate course and a half and have self-taught things which are useful in my homelab ever since, but have you guys found a way around that? Also, if not, is it safe-ish to use an account which is linked to my google account which goes back about a decade?

I also apologize if this is inappropriate for this thread, I'd love to see and would be interested in contributing to a decentralized YouTube project like this in any way I can.

I've used MusicBrainz Picard for metadata and cover art in the past. Worked well for me but I don't know about lyrics.

sadly for music it's not as easy as with other media, but this https://github.com/sentriz/wrtag tool is the best we've got so far. it's a cli, though, unsure how comfortable you're with that. essentially it adds metadata from musicbrainz.

Yah its rough out there right now with no end in sight…collapse of AI data center bubble may help…but yah good luck. Ebay prices on used drives are also out of this world as well. I’ve given up looking.

I use second hand enterprise drives.

I also use triple parity and mergerfs/snapraid to reduce wear.

You may find that you need to migrate to a system that lets you use smaller disks in order to afford expansion. That means away from zfs.

Back when zfs was just barely becoming usable by normal people I tried it out. The biggest problem was how much ram it needed. Ram cost about twenty times as much per gigabyte then as it does now. The second biggest problem was that you had to completely replace disk pools. Disks cost about a hundred times more per gigabyte back then compared to now.

I have used zfs a lot since then. It is a technology that relies on the users ability to buy more drives all at once when it’s time to upgrade.

I just had two 4TBs eat it on me simultaneously... I lost the entirety of a bunch of utterly replaceable stuff, thank God.

I'll make sure to grab some for you before I wake up.

I’ve been taking my chances with refurb 6TB SAS drives since at about $120 they cost what my new 6TB drives cost 4 years ago. Im just trusting in the ZFS gods to never let me be more than 2 drives down at once.

Well, what was the output like?

@pastermil@sh.itjust.works I did try the day I made the post. Windows' device manager was more helpful because it updated as soon as I plugged or unplugged a device, even confirming something was indeed happening because the list blinked every time it was updated. Thus that allowed me to do it multiple times in a row while watching which entry appeared or disappeared from the list without the need to keep inputting the commands manually.

I use CH341a device here and there and never have to install anything to use it (aside from the software, of course). Perhaps try something like lsusb? Next, also run dmesg | tail right after you plug your device.

@pastermil@sh.itjust.works things were wild these past few days so only now going through the backlog. But on the driver, from a quick search, the CH340 driver is part of the ch341 module, which according to modinfo ch341 on my Mint machine, is already installed. Weird.

It is weird that I envy those people in America, I rather be them now… maybe, I don’t know.

We have the best propaganda in the world and this is the proof. Lol

My situation is worst, i am in middle east from the country at war with yours but I live and was born in an arabian country.

It is weird that I envy those people in America, I rather be them now.... maybe, I don't know.

I am no oay

I think Mint is good. I would probably upgrade to v23. Aside from that, you could probably try a LiveUSB of Fedora.

Gonna try to investigate further today, if things aren't too busy. Any suggestions on distros in case I need to distro hop to test? Was testing on Linux Mint 22.3 Xfce.

Swear I thought it's already in the system packages.

Iirc the driver's installer for Linux is available on the manufacturer's site.

CH340 needs Linux driver set up manually?

Build an Unraid server out of any cheap hardware you have. Toss in any assortment of HDs you have lying around of any size. Very efficient, safe and easy to upgrade. Best computer purchase I’ve made since 2016 and I own two of them now.

What about a 10 inch rack? Jeff geerling has a few good videos on Nas solutions in a 10 inch rack

Also the fear of being deported soon

i''m an american citizen, but i have family members there were also american citizens and they were deported nonetheless in the early 20th century -- you're right to be concerned.

Great. We are back to 2018 prices.
We are oh so fortunate the prices just doubled and not went back to 1990s level for >100GB drives... /s

Storage is incredibly cheap.

Spinning metal has been trending towards a penny a gigabyte for two decades. Things seem bad now but it’s only 3 cents a gigabyte like 2018.

Lto is also incredibly cheap by any measure in comparison to the past.