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 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

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

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!

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 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!

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!

I have bad news for you

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!

Never forget your roots

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