As someone who setup his own nas over the pandemic I really like this approach. Needed a time intensive project to stay sane and I keep finding more useful things it can do.

Another thought I’ve had, plex has a skip intro feature. This works by scanning the audio from multiple episodes and showing the skip button when available. Maybe something like that could build up an ad library of the most obnoxious repetitive podcast ads and work across different podcasts. It wouldn’t work for unique self reads though.

I wish I had the technical knowledge to build something like this but I done even know where to begin.

IHeartradio is the worst. I have dropped off listening to podcasts I otherwise really like. Behind the bastards, anything Robert Evans does really. The ads are too bad.

I do wish that was more common. I have no problem with Patreon to remove the ads.

I love the idea of using AI for for ad skipping. Let it do something positive instead of just our jobs in the near future.

To add to this, some podcasts on certain networks dynamically insert ads based on your location, any other data they have on you. so the ads may be different length for different users, further complicating this.

Definitely a difficult problem still looking for a solution. thanks for your input.

I do support a few to get ad free versions but these are almost nonexistent. very few podcasts do this.

bummer. I guess mine is a couple years old at this point and they closed that loophole. I hate ads and would pay more to remove them anyway though.

I recommend getting the kids paperwhite. Comes ad free and with a good case. Just unsub from the kids book thing if you don’t want it. Paperwhites are backlit so I can fall asleep reading at night with no other lights on. The newer ones also support dark mode and usb-c, finally!

And only buy any Amazon devices when deeply discounted like on prime day.

Give us a link. Lets talk about it how awesome plex shares are and encourage others to share their servers 😀

Make one for Lemmy?

I’ve found discord to be a bit of a barrier for the less tech savvy friends too. Overseerr has worked great though. Except now it’s too easy and my server has gone from meticulously curated sci-fi and horror and pretentious classic films to include all the big modern trash I don’t care to watch. Oh well.

Interesting. Maybe I can do something like this with the iOS app…

Anyone know where to find the Calm meditation app audio files?

Seems it stalled out instantly but I’ll leave it in qbit and see what happens.

I am struggling to locate Snow Devils, the sequel to wild wild planet. I have the rest of the gamma one movies.

I don’t think it will be a great film but we love silly b-movies over here.

With plex pass it detects intros and let’s you skip them. This silly feature got me to buy a lifetime pass.

Yes. I recently installed it but the iOS app is still in test flight and pretty buggy. I’m also having issues with it not understanding my book library, lumping all books in the author folder into a single book.

It does allow hosting a book as a podcast but that’s at an individual file setting. Very manual.

I need to tinker more with it.

I would love an easy way to host my audiobook collection as a podcast. With docker on my NAS.

Been using prologue for a while but it’s been losing my position and I’d rather just use overcast for books and podcasts. One audio app!