lattrommi

I still have the slide as default and use it a lot. I have it set to slide when I mousewheel on the desktop and keep my taskbar shorter so there's always some desktop showing in the corners. When I get frustrated with something though, I hit my key to activate the cube and the animation of it pulling away from the normal view works as like a disconnect from whatever I'm doing. Virtually stepping back basically.

Without the cube, I found I would get frustrated and instead of working on something else I would keep going and ultimately make mistakes and end up more frustrated. If I tried switching with the slide or fade to another project, the irritation stayed with me and I'd mess those other projects up too. The cube, for me, just worked.

I did have some success using the overview, however it was a lot more overwhelming with the way it shows everything, while the cube limits it to what's on each cube face, without showing minimized windows at all.

When I updated KDE and found that I had lost the cube desktop switcher effect I was fairly put off on Wayland and made a lot of effort to get the cube back in various ways which did not go well. Now that it's on Wayland, albeit slightly different, I am content with staying on Wayland. I can't thank the people who ported it enough. It may seem like a trivial graphic effect to some but that fraction of a second that it uses when switching desktops is something that helps my ADHD tremendously. If I'm getting frustrated with a project I can switch to something else and something about that visualization helps me keep everything organized mentally. I use 4 virtual desktops, each with it's own project subject matter, one for each side of the cube, excluding the top and bottom.

This meme imagary is from the movie Seven Psychopaths. It's a very good movie.

Not that anyone asked for this line from my .bash_aliases but I hope it comes in handy for someone:

alias vids='mpv --shuffle --fullscreen --loop-playlist=inf /home/lattrommi/porn/dirty30/*.* & ' # for infinite, random, short clips, full screen.

Saying 'prevention of theft' is a poor suggestion on my end and an incorrect depiction of his motives and usage of Soulseek. I can't say for sure really, he passed away in 2021 so I'll never know his motives. I tried to think of a reason why someone might mark something private and that's what I ended up with. I probably should have thought this through better.

He used a lot of samples for his music using multitracks, the releases from artists meant specifically for remixing and sampling and I believe searching for multitracks from lesser known artists was his main use for Soulseek, basically networking, not piracy, and that he also had poor file and project management?

I'm not sure how to convey the connection that I saw in my head. I probably should have left this post alone.

A friend of mine kept all his music in the same folder, including music he created. Prevention of theft might be a reason to mark as music, although this is a very niche use case.

First thought is: Chloroform Girl - Polkadot Cadaver

Warning, the lyrics might be disturbing.

Second thought is: The Postal Service - Brand New Colony

The latter is from an album that paints a picture of most likely an incel, desperate to win back their former lover with a happy carefree sound and attitude, a mask hiding their inner pain with lyrics that hint at the singer being an obsessed stalker with plans to kidnap.

Quod Libet can do 1 and 3 for sure, I think it can do #2 but I'm not positive. I don't have a music collection with very many albums that have multiple tracks. You can pick and choose which metadata columns show up for your library and sort by whatever you want, including creating your own but that's outside my expertise. It can do bulk renaming too.

I was using Clementine for awhile, then because of a lack of updates and some other minor issues, I switched to Strawberry which is a fork of Clementine. It added some neat features but lost a few too. After using a dozen or so different players, it's the one that came out on top for me. I found Quod Libet just works like I want it to.

The way I listen to music is to dump all my files into a single folder called "music", then do shuffle, repeat all. I was in the process of moving my files to a new storage and moved the folder around a few times. Just had to update the library with a scan, took like 10 seconds.

I also have it set up to automatically resume playing from where it left off anytime I restart. One of the options is then queue autosave interval, which does the resume from where you left off. It's enabled by default I believe. You can set it to autosave every second if you want but to use less system resources, I stick with the default of 60 and I think it saves on shutdown/restart too. I've never noticed it NOT resume from where I left off.

It has a plugin system to add features but otherwise it starts off very bare bones. You add plugins to basically build your own player the way you want it. That means it can be a bit of work to initially setup. While that sounds like a pain, the amount of time I've spent in Quod Libet's settings is a tiny fraction of the amount of time I spent messing with Clementine and Strawberry's options, as well as other players. It's probably the music player I've seen the GUI for the least in my entire life, as a ratio to how much music I've listened to with it.

True, it can be tricky for certain things. I suggested it because it fits the OP's a) and b) points better than anything else I could think of. The different versions of it can vary a lot too. Bionicpup worked great on my old eeepc, a netbook with a single core 32 bit cpu, but didn't do well on anything newer. Focal Fossa has worked without issue on everything I tried it on. I wouldn't use either as my main OS, but it can be fun on a secondary system. I kept mine in the bathroom until the humidity from showering likely wrecked it.

Set up a flash drive with puppy linux. It's relatively easy to do (depending on how much you already know about Linux) and is mostly risk-free (but you can still do damage so always use caution) because it runs entirely in RAM and shouldn't mess with the internal storage drive unless you tell it to. You can use it to copy any desired files without booting Windows and it will probably run on that machine better than Windows ever did. I think that has a 64 bit CPU but there are 32 bit versions floating around the internet if it doesn't. I've seen Puppy Linux versions advertised as being 'so easy your grandma can do it. One project of mine that was fun was creating a Puppy Arcade, a usb flash drive filled with emulators and ROMS but I had issues with some emulators.

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That's a conspiracy? I thought it was generally accepted as truth and part of the risks of working with that one person...

That reminds me of a conspiracy theory about Jim Carey being a serial killer who murdered pro wrestler Chris Benoit: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1585159586960486401.html