I wish there was a good looping software that good take any song and cut the perfect infinite loop of it automatically.
I have long wanted a weather forecast along route in navigation apps for long trips. Ideally you could add in stops and estimate how long you would need to wait for storms to pass over.
Just coming back from a trip and adding to this, I wish Organic Maps / CoMaps had a function to automatically add rest stops and fuel stops.
For example, for a 7 hour road trip it would prompt:
- Frequency of rest stops:
120 minutes - Time spent at rest stop:
20 minutes - Approx remaining range:
150km - Approx car range overall:
500km
Obviously I’ve just been pulling into service stations and rest stops on my own accord, but I like having small goals and not having the navigation lose it’s shit at me because I decided to pull into a small town halfway through. Would just make planning a day of driving much easier.
This would be great
- Frequency of rest stops:
That exists. Weather on the way.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-on-the-way/id1471394318
I did search for “weather on the way” in google play store. While they don’t have an android app, I found two similar apps that do a lot of what I wanted: “drive weather” and “highway weather.” Thank you for the search term that yielded results. I like that the"highway weather" app allows adding in rest stops and propagates the change into the forecast.
I will note that neither of these options seem to offer turn by turn navigation. So there is still room for some of the navigation apps to integrate this functionality.
iOS only.
For the rest of us, best you can do with them is pick your interstate: https://weatherontheway.app/us-interstate-weather/
Music software that shuffles entire albums and plays them end to end before switching to another random album.
Quodlibet has a Random Album Playback plugin
Winamp used to do this.
That is like a
105 line bash script? Well a little more but not much.Ok 6 lines (untested):
while true; do album=$(ls albums | shuf -n 1) for song in $(ls albums/$album/*.mp3 | shuf); do mplayer $song done doneMinus that second pipe to shuf, it seems exactly what the person wanted.
The first pipe to shuf chooses a random album and the second randomizes the order of the songs on that album. I thought that is what OP had asked for.
I read it as play a random album straight through, first song to last song, but re-reading what they wrote, you may be right.
I really want an app that locally indexes my locally stored photos and lets me search them locally, based on places, things or people seen in the photo.
Immich lets you do this
https://immich.app/docs/features/searching/
For example here’s me searching for “forest”. But it also supports looking for people (even multiple people in the same image), places, dates, or combinations of all of them. It’ll also look for text in images. The link has more examples
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
I think there is a fine line between “installing an app” and “spinning up a docker image and keeping it maintained”.
I’m in the camp that Docker images are what .exe’s used to be, but they’re not easily accessible still. So Immich doesn’t count I fear.
That is completely fair, and part of that is on me since I spend so much time in self hosting communities where such a recommendation isn’t too out of the ordinary, while it’s way out of scope for what most people are looking for
Having a more user friendly and approachable way to do stuff like this would be very helpful
All hosted and processed on my local computer, and connected to the mobile app
The way you write this makes it seem as if the app doesn’t actually locally index locally stored photos. Is that so?
I’m sorry, I’m not entirely sure what you mean. All my photos are on my local hard drive on my computer at home, and I just point immich at that folder.
Once it boots up, immich doesn’t need internet to function, except for the first time you use image processing (the machine learning to search for things inside of images) and geocoding (putting the images on a map). Once it downloads those for the first time immich can run completely offline on your local computer. If you wish, you can open immich so you can connect to it from another device, such as a phone, but your images/data never leaves your device
I want an app that runs locally on my phone in my pocket and indexes the photos I’ve stored locally there, without ever needing any kind of network connection.
But the way you’re describing your setup, it seems to me as if copying your photos to your computer in order to get them indexed is a necessary step.
That’s fair. And in the case of Immich, the photos are automatically backed up to my computer so if I lose my phone I don’t lose the images, but I totally understand wanting something exclusively on the phone (Immich can let you browse photos local on your phone, but I don’t think it indexes them for searching by person/object). Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists, especially since the machine learning for identifying people/objects in pictures is pretty computationally intensive.
I wish you luck in your search! I agree that would be a great app to have
Unfortunately I’m not sure something like that exists,
Well, that’s exactly why such an app was what I wrote as my reply to the question “What app/program do you wish existed […]?”
Digikam
- Fully local
- Search by location and place on map based on exif data
- Search by person (local facial recognition)
No search by “thing” without manually tagging though
While this seems very interesting, it doesn’t seem to exist as an app, the download page only lists downloads for desktop operating systems:
https://www.digikam.org/download/
Do they also provide an app somewhere where I haven’t looked yet?
Ah, apologies, I use the word “app” much more liberally.
No, I don’t believe there would be a mobile release for Digikam and I’m not aware of similar software for mobile operating systems.
I second Immich. Does this great, and the local AI mapping is pretty good.
An app that can fix audio in movies to make dialog easier to hear and understand.
It’s called subtitles 😅
Yeah, sucks having to spend so much time reading and missing the action. Plus they are AI generated a lot now. And they often get it very wrong. :(
Digimon.
I have to carry my phone with me everywhere I go, I want a little guy that is personal and unique to me, it gets points for stuff I do, and them I can battle with other people who have their own little guys.
Pokémon go doesn’t cut it for me, the battle isn’t Pokemon. The games are great but it’s me playing the guy not me being the guy.
I have the whole thing on paper but learning the programming to make it is discouraging and I’m already in college and writing full time
So, kinda like Pou, but with PvP?
Yeah. I even wanted to include an account based scanner for loot. You’d be able to scan barcodes and qr to get loot, battles, and stuff, but after the first scan it would remember and lock that reward so you could reclaim it daily.
I imagined players keeping little collections of barcodes so you could easily reclaim useful loot and when players meet in the wild they could scan up each others collections to get codes they may hot have found in the wild.
Sort of reminds me of Habbie
Yeah, but with a unique leveling system and PvP.
A program that allows me to search through a large drive and see if there are any duplicates of congruent files on them, even if those files have different names but are otherwise identical, i.e. copies elsewhere on the drive.
There are lots of these? And if it’s images, you could use Immich and it will find similar pictures that aren’t exact, too.
If you search for “find duplicate files <your OS>” there seem to be some options…
The only thing I’ve ever really wanted that didn’t used to exist was an app that could identify things visually. So you find a bug or a bird or an object and snap a photo, and it tells you what it is instead of having to ask real people.
This is now possible and is getting better all the time. But I still haven’t seen an all invlusive app for everything? Like there’s one specifically for bugs. Another specifically for birds. Saw one that specifically was for identifying your dog’s breed. Haven’t seen one that is universal and can identify everything in an image at once.
Ideally, this would just be a feature of things like Google Lens. Like I could just open the camera, set it to ID mode, and just point it at the thing I am looking at and have it tell me what it is and not just find images similar to it.
Seek and iNaturalist is for all animals and plants. They use your photos to track data about the species you take pictures of, mostly just where you found them. It also keeps track of all of the species you’ve found and gives you challenges to find certain species depending on where you are in the world. If the AI fails to identify something, your photo can be peer reviewed by other users.
i’ve seen commercials of Gemini doing this. not sure how accurate it is realistically…
Gemini itself sucks for pretty much everything. The non-AI assistant that preceeded it did a much better job, IMO. Though, it didn’t have item recognition capabilities at all out side of music. It feels like it’s just a language bot being forced to do things it wasn’t designed for, so you ask it what a thing is and it just spits out text that seems normal but is also completely wrong.
The general “thing” recognition is better on my Quest 3’s room scanning function. But it’s not meant for telling you what things are, just for making furniture in real space appear in virtual space too 🤷♂️
Obsidentify is that thing for nature related searches.
I would be ecstatic if someone ported AutoHotkey to Linux. AutoKey doesn’t come close to cutting it for me.
Interesting. I use Autokey daily. By the minute even. I’ll have to research what I’m missing.
I used to be in this camp.
xdotoolwas the solution for me.Check out pyautogui, it’s probably what you’re looking for. You can manipulate the mouse and keyboard and even look for images contained on the screen.
An app for Android (Google TV) that lets you change the volume on a per-application basis. Like a mixer. I want to be able to set Disney+ to 200%, Netflix to 130% and Youtube to 80%.
If you’re using Samsung, check out Soundassistant from Goodlock.
No Samsung. I want this for my Google Streamer.
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A weather widget on Android that shows all of current temp, high/low for the day, and high/low remaining for the day.
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I don’t think this needs to be a whole app, or just a feature within a camera app, but I want the ability to underlay an existing image at say 10% transparency on screen while taking a photo. It doesn’t get saved, I just want to be able to use it as a guide for framing things, like documenting changes on sites or recreating old photos for fun.
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I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don’t know if it’s Bluetooth or what. “Hey your taillight is out” “hey coming up in your blindspot” “hey, please can I merge I’m not trying to be a dick” “hey is this the exit for Wawa?”
Open camera has that. Settings > Camera preview… > Ghost image
Yo. Yooooo! Thank you!
The amount of road rage induced shit talking that would be done via car-to-car communication would outweigh every benefit it could provide.
Yeah, I won’t deny the potential for abuse. On the other hand, I think a lot of road rage comes from the disinhibiting effect of being alone in your car. I’d love to see a study to see if road rage can be reduced by letting people communicate.
For weather, the hottest/coldest part of the day are almost always around the same time. If you know those, it’s pretty easy to say “the temp right now is the hottest it will be for the rest of the day”, or “the high for today will be the hottest when we get there”.
Yeah, you’re right. I’d still just like to see it. Maybe something like this:
64° ─────●────────▲───── 83°
With the dot showing the current temp within the day range and the arrow (up or down) showing if there is still a high or low spot left. As in, not the high for the day, maybe that’s already past, but just to say, “there’s a still a bit of hot left later”
Sounds like something that could be made in KWGT. This is the custom home widget I made with weather info.
There’s a weather widget preset you can import to use as a template to see how it works, and then you can add on to it from there.
I want to be able to open a line of communication to another driver nearby. Maybe a range of 100ft. I don’t know if it’s Bluetooth or what. “Hey your taillight is out” “hey coming up in your blindspot” “hey, please can I merge I’m not trying to be a dick” “hey is this the exit for Wawa?”
I think about this every time I’m on the highway, it would be so fun/useful.
I said it in another reply but I’ll say it again here, CB radio is awesome. Especially on the highway there’s tons of trucker chatter and just general nonsense.
Huh, why didn’t I think of that? Thanks
CB radio is pretty popular depending on where you live. You’ll start recognizing antennae everywhere once you get a kit and start messing around with it.
Won’t hit everyone but it’s pretty fun community usually. Trucks and just general weirdos, the occasional douche canoe but mostly good
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I want an app that existed, and was killed before it’s time by Intuit. Level Money
You put in (and it learned over time) your expenses, and it gave you a single number which was how much you could spend per day. It adjusted as you went, so if you under/overspent it adjusted.
It wasn’t perfect, but was the last time I had a firm handle on my finances.
Fuck you Intuit, burn in every hell imagine able for your myriad of sins including this minor one comparatively.
Have you looked at your banks budgeting software? One of the key features mine has is it learns how transactions are categorized, so future ones will be categorized the same way even if the amount changes. While it’s far from perfect, it is a huge factor in making useful.
I used to try various money management tools but this made a huge convenience difference
This kinda locks you into one bank which is not ideal
I use CapitalOne, they have some things but nothing exactly right.
I have also tried every budgeting software under the sun, and Level was the only one that worked for me sadly. I’ve thought about using vibe coding (not a mobile dev) to makey own android app to do something similar but also super lazy lol.
Ever tried the old over engineered Excel doc trick?
Sucks because you have to do manual data entry but you’ll get whatever level of granular control your heart desires.
I’m sure there’s ways to design something similar to the auto leveling budget effect you liked, but it’s beyond my skills.
I work in IT and we get at least a dozen broken QuickBooks tickets a week. I fucking hate intuit and their products
Have you tried Cashew? I’ve tried tons of apps and it’s easily the best
No, but I just downloaded it! Thanks for the rec!
Media server software that lets me program my own television station.
5:00 PM - Play the next file from folder X.
6:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Y.
7:00 PM - Play the next file from folder Z.
8:00 PM - Play random movie.That is like a 10 line bash script? Well maybe a little more but not much. Start here: https://linux.die.net/man/1/at
Setting up something like a cron job is trivial, getting it to stream files from a particular folder, on a channel I can access on demand, is the trick.
Ideally I want to be able to change the input on my television, any time I want, to my personal streaming channel which is constantly running the schedule I’ve defined.
Seems like it would be pretty easy to set up some cron job that would change a symlink to a folder every hour and just run programs from that symlink.
That would likely work if the intent was to watch files locally, and that’s not the goal. The goal is to stream them out to something viewable on a television.
A DLNA server can do the streaming, but not the scheduling and it won’t run continuously.
Seems like youre shooting these down without considering what the author meant by “program”.
- Create a folder called “My Channel”
- Make a bash script that does the symlinks
- Add folder to Jellyfin
- Profit
The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you’d again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer’s hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I’m still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I’d use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.
Added: maybe you don’t even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.
There’s tons of these? I’ve been using DizqueTV for like five years without issue.
Not linking to reddit, but this DisqueTV?
0.o appreciate you bringing that to my attention.
Have you tried ErsatzTV? It’s selfhostable, pretty extensible, can be integrated into on-demand solutions like Jellyfin…
I look at different solutions from time to time, but it’s been a while, I’ll check that out!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m7OW2xrJE
This guy actually rolled his own internal home cableTV broadcast, which does exactly what you’re asking.
Composite video and mono audio… Ew. LOL.
VLC (Video LAN Client) probably has a plugin for this. It was designed to stream video across networks.
Ersatz is this brilliant self hosted IPTV server that can do this. Any client (even a browser or your smart tv) can run it. Setting up the channels are a bit clunky but it’s well documented
https://ersatztv.org/ Your Personal IPTV Server | ErsatzTV
I want a something like a custom radio station that combines my music playlists and podcasts with local and world news, maybe have it read news using some nice ai voice if it has to be trendy
I’m willing to pay for this to help local news businesses stay afloat
Navigation app the prioritizes things important to me. I’ll got an extra distance if I turn less or I right turn only or I have no speed bumps.
Brouter used to be capable of this, but it was configured with JSON.
I wish for something for summer months, I don’t care if the route is longer if I walk in the shade.
Edit: it’s a full blown programming language https://brouter.de/brouter/index.html
I want MoviesFad back… Greatest movie-app ever!
