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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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As are songs. I have a playlist with about 3000 songs I like in one folder, and it'll jump through genres from song to song. I like all the songs, so I don't care about mood changes.
I also find there are album songs on most albums that I like that I don't particularly enjoy or feel like filler.
Ohh I should try that. Just dump the entire music folder into VLC and shuffle.
Might encourage me to remove the random crap that got downloaded and left in the unsorted folder years ago... Some of it is good, some isn't.
Try out smart playlists. Plex, navidrome, etc. Let's you set up a list that will only play songs you havent heard in months
There was a thing called the AcousticBrainz project that enables smart playlists like that which also keep "similar sounding" songs together. You can have a folder with Metallica and Enya, and if you pick Enya mood tracks, the algorithm can pick and choose through the Metallica catalog to play for you only those tracks that are most "Enya-like" - unfortunately, the program was shutdown a couple of years ago - seems like interest / funding was lacking for an open project that does Spotify / Pandora like music classification without also pushing promoted tracks at the same time.
Wouldnt Plex require connection though? Don't really want to run a Plex server on each device either. VLC is local and I can just periodically sync the music library when on the same LAN.
You can download playlists just fine. I'll go on vacation all the time and listen offline the whole time.
And you dont need to run a server on each device. Plexamp and/or Symphonium are just apps for your phone. It's all "local" when the laptop with the server/music and your phone are in your own house, especially navidrome. If you want to hit that server on the internet, thats a homelab project to dip your toes into when you feel like it.
My phone isn't always on my LAN and I don't always have internet access when away from it.
Yeah that's how I used to be but I feel something is lost with a lot of albums