fun to put some negative numbers in here
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wow reaper’s midi editor preferences are so bad
it’s very uncharacteristic of the software lol, why is it so hard to make it easy to use
i guess the below will do, but what i really want is for the midi editor to autofocus the item i select in the main window. and only display that item
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oi thx everyone for reccing foobar2000 cos that shit rips i’m livin it up over here
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hell yeah. started using it in like 2005 and never stopped since then
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does linux have a foobar equivalent? i’ve got this low power laptop that i’d like to breath new life into
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actually no! nothing really comparable imo
Run it with wine.
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setting up the paths for a music library with it sucks tho lol
what’s it programmed in, is it closed source?
doing file associations with wine can be kind of brittle and the desktop integration is typically acceptable for games but less so for everyday productivity and media stuff – I’d be hesitant to use wine for my default music player
update I figured out how to do this, nowadays I’m using Midi editor popped out and maximized, but zooming is still super unintuitive somehow. i’m sure i could change the keybinds, i think maybe scroll wheel to move up/down the keyboard, and pgup/pgdn to zoom?
Unofficial Windows XP Service Pack 4 since apparently Windows Updates don’t work at all for it any more.
https://archive.org/details/windows-xp-SP4/
Windows XP SP4 security enhancements: Windows XP SP4 includes registry updates to enhance security. I want to thank Stefan Kanthak, a security expert who has kindly given me the necessary information. These security enhancements address issues not fixed by Microsoft updates.
This is an example of security vulnerabilities fixed by Stefan’s registry updates: Full Disclosure: Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 12): NOOP security fixes
Hmmm?
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Wasn’t there some hack you could do in the registry to make your copy of XP report itself as the POS version to make updates magically work again? I’m sure even that doesn’t work anymore.
afaik you don’t need to hack the registry for windows to report itself as a POS
am i right my dudes up top come on. nobody? ok. sure. fine.
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paint.net is my favourite piece of software rn. it continues to offer me little thoughtful kindnesses with a consistency I find really heartwarming. it is wonderfully bullshit-free shitposting utility. new file dimensions will default to whatever is in your clipboard buffer and it makes me so so freaking happy
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I made my lone photoshop macro years ago to duplicate this behaviour from gimp lol
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Didn’t want to re-up a lapsed Adobe subscription for a few scanned PDFs so I installed “Readiris Pro for HP Inc.” that came with my multifunction laserjet and it’s so awful. Like McAfee on a Dell shit - the installer had a limited time offer to upgrade to the full version.
This is after looking at “Windows Fax and Scan” and recalling @Felix calling Audacity “Windows XP shit” but worse - it’s Vista shit
Doesn’t do PDFs! Default document setting is a greyscale 200 ppi TIFF.
I forget if Mac OS has a better utility for this but I’m ready to go back now
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Scanner apps are so weird
macOS’ is like built into the printer settings dialog and has strange UX for appending multiple pages to a PDF but still technically better
I use “HP Smart” (which is itself a fairly busted metro app) on Windows fwiw
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I only installed and use “HP smart” on iOS and transfer files to/from there because I don’t trust HP not to permanently inject crazy system-destabilizing garbage that can’t be removed on any less-locked-down operating system
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I think the amount of setup and teardown that windows store apps are allowed to do is pretty fixed in practice since they’re mostly sandboxed like on mobile platforms, it’s actually not a bad option for the very weird slice of applications that fit this category and which there’s no alternative to
technically the printer actually runs a webserver and I can scan from hitting its IP in the browser but that UX is obviously also bad (and undocumented?)
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