It’s sort of weird to upload because it’s already on the hard drive where I want it to go… Just has to get squeezed back and forth through the pipes of my LAN a few times to go through this process.

yes that is correct. it is a server/client solution so you can track you progress.

zero finding ability. try Lazy Librarian.

remember that audiobooks are relatively rare due to their high production costs. so a lot of books do not have an audio version. Could consider text to speech.

there are some massive torrents that have like thousands of audiobooks in them and you have to go and select which ones to download. I’m not sure how I stumbled on these in the past so if you figure that out let me know.

But he paid $40B for twitter. $250M is the kind of bargain you only get after prior investment.

(And I guess I found something an individual can buy for >$1B, which is even more reason to prohibit anyone from having this much money.)

I think the ballot reform really helped in this case. We need ballot reform.

AFAIK even seemingly successful musicians often don’t really make out with much cash. They incur a lot of costs even under the most “honest” industry contracts. Then there are cases of getting blatantly scammed like the Backstreet Boys or George Clinton.

wrong.

you can buy a lot of political favors

you could make money depreciate over time so it couldn’t be hoarded.

Readarr is just a tool that facilitates downloading via bittorrent or usenet. You can just use those the old fashioned way without it.

Edit: The program Lazy Librarian that some people are mentioning also assists with the searching and downloading, if you prefer not to do it by hand.

You can purchase audiobooks too, especially from authors who make them available on DRM-free platforms.

And there’s always https://librivox.org/

I can’t offer any specific advice but there seem to be a great many projects going to fill this need:

https://alternativeto.net/software/spotify/?license=opensource&platform=self-hosted

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#media-streaming---audio-streaming

I used LL years ago before I got into any of the arrs. I was planning to return to it but ran into some sort of install/dependency issues. Maybe I’ll give it another whirl in case they’ve solved spontaneously.

I’m actually using Audiobookshelf as my main server. I just wanted Readarr to get metadata and organize the folders. Do you have any workflow tips for that?

I’m hoping someone will have some info about what happened because it seems strange. What does this mean?

Unlike R——'s proprietary service, this is much faster, handles large authors, has full coverage of G——R—— (or Hardcover!)

Ah I see. Thanks! The data and the attributes are stored separately.

thanks for getting back to me. :)

I am curious what kind of situation would screw up your /etc/ directory?

Is there a reason to run

find -exec chmod 644 -- {} +

rather than

find -type f -exec chmod 644 -- {} +

?

An mp3 or a pdf has no business doing anything. The whole point of file permissions is to prevent the user from accidentally doing stuff they don’t mean to do.

If you downloaded a malicious file that had some code in it, you could accidentally execute the code. Or maybe some legitimate code that means one thing in the file format but a different thing when executed accidentally.

Even excluding the possibility of malice, I think it would screw up things like tab completion to have every file be an executable. Or if I double click in the GUI file manager, will it try (and fail) to run the .avi as an application instead of opening in VLC?

I’m sure you could get a more comprehensive answer if you post a new thread or search on the web.

I did try to setgid thing but maybe it made things worse and not better.

what umask even is ofc lol

my conclusion also… I did kind of get to the understanding that the correct way to do this is with umask but everytime I think “I’m just going to sit down and learn about umask” I immediately am forced to admit defeat and give up. Which is why I didn’t make a post about solving the original problem, rather just to try to dig out my current hole first.

on ext4 usage of ACLs is not even enabled by default

Is that the case? One reason I included the information is because I found conflicting info and I am unsure. I specifically recall reading it is default on ext4 but not ext3.

archwiki:

acl is specified as a default mount option when creating an ext2/3/4 filesystem

This SE thread has a coment dated 2015:

Recent distro have ACL mount option included by default (since kernel 2.6). So it’s not mandatory to redefine it in /etc/fstab (or similar). Non exhaustive list of filesystems concerned: ext3, ext4, tmpfs, xfs and zfs .

I don’t think I have read anywhere it is not default for ext4, only for earlier exts.

Right because there are no legitimate executable files in this set. So it is OK to blanket remove x from any files tat have acquired it.

But I need x on directory, because that’s required to enter/read the directory. If I understand properly.

I’m not familiar with chacl (“change the access control list of a file or directory”). Is is similar to setfacl (“set file access control lists”)? A matter of preference/habit?

It seems like -B does “Remove all ACLs”. Which I guess is what I am asking for? Files on linux are OK to have no ACLs?

About the find ... {} +, I see {} +

runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files.

So does it wait until it has found all the matches to run the command as a giant batch instead of running it as it finds matches?